Counseling and Psychological Services

Lorchen is a licensed psychologist. She is the counseling psychologist at Family Student Housing. Trained with a family systems orientation, she has extensive experience working with families, couples, individuals, and groups. Additional interests include graduate student, re-entry student, and parenting concerns.

Amy is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.  She has worked in multiple community mental health settings providing therapy and case management primarily to youth, young adults, and families.  Her approach is collaborative and strength-based; pulling from existential, developmental, and community models of counseling.  She is particularly interested in multicultural services, GLBTQ issues, eating disorders, and identity formation.

Patrice is a licensed psychologist with a background in clinical/community psychology and Zen Buddhism. Her interests include spirituality, GLBT issues, multicultural counseling (especially with Middle Eastern students), healing from child abuse, and working with transfer and reentry students. She integrates developmental, existential, and Buddhist approaches to counseling.

MaryJan Murphy, Ph.D., Training Director / Acting Co-director
Cowell College, Room 206
(831) 459-2120

MaryJan is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in counseling psychology and is the Training Director for our APA-Accredited Predoctoral Internship Program in Professional Psychology. She has experience and training in individual, couples, and group therapy, outreach and consultation, and supervision and training. Her training has included integrative and developmental approaches to psychotherapy. She is interested in training and supervision, women's issues, eating disorders, rape and sexual assault, issues facing reentry students, relationship concerns, and career development.

Peg is a licensed psychologist with a PhD in clinical psychology and a background in clinical/community psychology. Her interests include GLBT issues, spirituality , multicultural counseling and recovering from various forms of abuse. She integrates counseling from a developmental, existential and self psychology perspective.

Susan is a licensed psychologist who has training and experience in individual, couples, and group therapy, as well as a background working in social service, mental health, and educational settings. She is particularly interested in cultural, identity, and eating issues and is passionate about community mental health, social justice, and the interface between psychology and religion. Her therapeutic approach is integrative with an emphasis on imaginal, existential, and psychodynamic perspectives; she also draws on treatment modalities such as expressive arts therapy, mindfulness and somatic practices.

Josina is a post-doctoral fellow with experience and training in individual, couples, and group therapy. Her therapeutic approach is strengths-based and integrative, primarily drawing upon existential, family systems, and humanistic orientations. She has a particular interest in relationship concerns, coping with anxiety/depression, issues related to eating and body image, cultural/identity development, spirituality, GLBTI issues, and grief and loss.

Michelle is a pre-doctoral psychology intern, completing her Psy.D. at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA.  She has training and experience working with individuals, couples, and groups. Her clinical interests include diversity issues, managing depression and anxiety, identity development, and cross-cultural counseling. Her approach is collaborative and integrates multicultural, CBT, mindfulness, and relational modalities.

Michelle is a pre-doctoral intern completing her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Bowling Green State University. She has experience and training in individual, couples, and group therapy. Her theoretical orientation is integrative and primarily influenced by interpersonal, feminist, cognitive behavioral, and mindfulness approaches. She works collaboratively with clients and focuses on clients’ strengths to establish goals for treatment. Her interests include college student development, substance use, cultural/identity development, eating and body image, relationship concerns, and working with first-year, transfer and re-entry students.