Postdoctoral Fellowship and Psychology Externs

Anne M. Slocum McEneaney, Ph.D., ABPP,  CGP, FAGPA
Assistant Director, Global Clinical Services
Team Leader and Clinical Psychologist

The Eating Concerns Specialization at New York University's Counseling & Wellness Services provides postdoctoral fellows an opportunity to gain specialized training in the delivery of services to culturally diverse college student populations presenting with eating concerns (e.g., restriction, bingeing, purging, body preoccupation/shame/dissatisfaction).

Primary fellowship responsibilities include assessment, diagnosis, individual and group psychotherapy of eating and body image concerns, as well as outcome evaluation, and collaboration and consultation on eating issues to the Student Health Center and the larger University community. As part of the specialization, fellows work with a committed group of professionals as part of a multidisciplinary treatment team. The team is comprised of psychologists, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, primary care physicians, a case manager, wellness exchange staff and a nutritionist. We offer clients access to comprehensive services, supporting recovery with a multidisciplinary approach. While fellows work within a short-term 10-session model, they are actively involved in learning the skills necessary to motivate and facilitate clients’ transition to long-term community providers as well as to higher levels of care (e.g., inpatient hospitalization, day treatment, intensive outpatient) as clinically indicated.

In addition to team involvement and the provision of individual therapy, each fellow co-facilitates a process-oriented Making Peace With Food group with the team leader. Weekly 1-hour individual and 1-hour group supervision and a biweekly 1.5-hour team supervision is provided to the ED fellows by a psychologist who has written, taught, and presented on eating issues, group psychotherapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy throughout the US and internationally.

Genny Cuocci, LCSW, CASAC Team Leader

The SAFE program is designed to help students reflect upon and explore their own substance-related behaviors in a safe, judgment-free and welcoming environment. It is meant to enhance the alcohol and other drug related educational and supportive services available to NYU students. It is open to undergrad and graduate students.

The focus of the SAFE program is to help students reduce high-risk behaviors and harmful consequences related to their use of alcohol or other drugs, identify motivations and triggers related to their use, and build skills to help promote change. Services are provided by a multi-disciplinary clinical team within CWS, and are non-judgmental, non-labeling and confidential.

The SAFE program offers a range of services, including individual and group counseling, psychiatric evaluations and medication management by an addiction psychiatrists or psychiatric nurse practitioner.

We offer students a wide array of referrals for outside treatment (e.g., detox, rehab, long-term therapy, sober living).

Informal clinical consultation around addressing substance use issues within patients is also offered between the treating therapist and any CWS SAFE Team member.

Clinicians can also refer students for a SAFE Evaluation (1-3 sessions) focused on personalized psycho-education, more in depth substance assessment, strategies to reduce risk/abstain/or moderate substance use, or to evaluate and discuss substance abuse resources and referral options.

Some students may decide to access the SAFE program on their own or at the suggestion of a medical or mental health provider, teacher, family member or friend. Other students involved in the Student Conduct process may come to the SAFE program as a condition of a referral given by Residential Life or The Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards. These students are required to meet with a SAFE clinician for a minimum of 2 sessions. These students are provided with in-depth assessment, personalized feedback on myths about alcohol/substance effects, facts on alcohol/substance norms, ways to reduce future risks associated with alcohol/substance use, and a menu of options to assist in making changes using the IMPACT Feedback software.

The SAFE Program offers the following groups and workshops:

• Choices and Change is a harm-reduction group that provides a nonjudgmental opportunity for students to discuss concerns about their substance use, identify motivations and triggers, and consider making changes in their behavior.
  Students’ Recovery Group is for students who are sober and seeking to bolster and maintain their recovery from substance abuse/dependence in a safe, supportive and non-judgmental environment.
  
• Mindfulness for Problematic Behaviors is a twice monthly workshop designed to build awareness and give individuals options to replace unhelpful behaviors. It will expand students’ ability to cope and respond creatively to everyday stressors by teaching mindfulness practices and DBT skills.
  
  

Paige McAdam, LCSW and Colleen McPhee, LCSW: Team Leaders)

The Trauma Specialization at New York University's Counseling & Wellness Services, provides postdoctoral fellows an opportunity to gain experience conducting assessment, provide individual and group therapy to students presenting with remote past or recent traumatic experiences (childhood abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, combat-related, other acute traumatic events, e.g. bereavement, motor vehicle accidents), and collaboration and consultation with other professionals.

In addition to individual short-term therapy limited to ten sessions, the trauma postdoctoral fellow also provides semester-long group psychotherapy and has the opportunity to co-lead the Survivor Support & Empowerment (SEE) groups and/or the Bereavement (Living with Loss) group with a licensed clinician. In addition, the fellow may run the Understanding Trauma workshop, a four-week modular group focused on psychoeducation and coping with trauma. Supervision includes one hour of trauma case specific supervision on individual cases, and up to one hour for group therapy.

The trauma postdoctoral fellow also participates in the bi-weeklymeetings of the Trauma Team, which brings together psychologists, social workers, and a psychiatric provider, several of whom have specialized training in various trauma treatment modalities including EMDR, prolonged exposure, and DBT, and also clinical and programmatic experience in domestic violence and campus sexual assault.