2003-2004 VAMFC Board Members
President:
Judy Stone - In the early stages of Judy's career she lived
and worked overseas in England and Thailand where she taught in the International
School system. Upon returning to the states, she worked as a high school
guidance counselor developing and implementing a Career Shadowing Program
for minority students in Fairfax County Public Schools. Judy left the school
system in 1988 to begin her family-counseling career under the supervision
of Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes, using the strategic therapy model working
with court ordered families. As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Marriage
& Family Therapist she built an individual and group practice supervising
individuals in the licensure process and established and directed Counseling,
Training & Mediation Services in Northern Virginia. From 1992 to 1998
Judy worked in executive position for Managed Behavioral Health Organizations
where she monitored national, state and community-level projects to implement
and use behavioral health care quality assessment activities, with emphasis
on the Medicaid environment.
Past
President: Rip McAdams - Rip is an Assistant Professor at The College
of William & Mary. He is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
in Virginia, and serves as a Faculty Supervisor and family therapist with
the New Horizons Family Counseling Center, a collaborative venture
between William & Mary and a number of local school systems to provide
counseling services to the families of children identified by the schools
as having emotional and/or behavioral difficulties. Prior to coming
to William & Mary, Rip was employed for nearly 15 years by Lutheran
Family Services of the Carolinas and Virginia where he developed and directed
the delivery of residential, day treatment, and treatment foster
careservices for emotionally disturbed and physically aggressive children.
His many years of individual work with children and adolescents have impressed
upon him of the necessity involving families in the treatment process
if there is to be any hope of lasting success. He has been a member of
the VAMFC Board for four years and was President during 1999-2000.
Secretary - Donna Kaiser - Donna
Kaiser, PhD, LPC, LMFT, ATR-BC, recently completed doctoral study at the
College of William and Mary and is a full-time outpatient therapist at
Prince William Family Counseling in Woodbridge. She is also adjunct faculty
at George Washington University and Virginia Tech. Donna has worked in
several inpatient and outpatient settings including home-based family counseling,
inpatient psychiatric and residential adolescent treatment centers, substance
abuse partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient treatment programs,
and the New Horizons Family Counseling Center at William and Mary. Donna’s
current interests include research on cognitive developmental theory and
theoretical applications to individual and family therapy, education and
supervision, and the links between developmental change and the creative
process.
Treasurer:
Juliann Smith - Juliann Smith, LPC, NCC is a full-time
Senior Case Manager and Mental Health Case Manager with Virginia Premier
Health Plan, Inc. and is currently completing the writing of her dissertation
as a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech. She has over 17 years experience
working in the human services field providing inpatient services at two
different private psychiatric hospitals, case management for the severely
and chronically mentally ill at Chesapeake Community Services Board, and
outpatient counseling at Radford and Virginia Tech's University Counseling
Center. Juliann received her Master's degree in Community Counseling through
the Counselor Education program at Radford University. She has a strong
interest in working with couples and families, disaster and trauma survivors,
in the areas of grief and bereavement, group counseling, clinical supervision,
and counselor development and education.
Student
Member: Hugh Jackson - Hugh is currently a working on a Ph.D.
in Counselor Education at William and Mary. He received his undergraduate
degree from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a Master’
degree from Campbell University. His work history includes providing
substance abuse treatment through individual and group counseling, as well
as providing in-home services to a dual-diagnosis client base and their
families. Hugh's current research interests are in the area of family counseling
and especially in work with families/couples in high-stress occupations.
Board
Member at Large: Wally Scott - Wally Scott received his doctorate from
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in
the Marriage and Family Therapy program. He has worked with children and
families for over 20 years in a number of different settings: social services,
residential care, community mental health, court service and family service.
Most recently, he was the Director of Counseling at Family Service of Roanoke
Valley for the past 10 years. He is currently the Director for the Center
for Counseling and Student Development at Radford University in Virginia.
He is a licensed Professional Counselor and a Marriage and Family Therapist
in Virginia. He has presented his ideas to various groups at local, state,
national and international conferences. He has presented at Marriage and
Family Therapy conferences in Virginia and Texas, and international conferences
in Poland and Finland. He has presented at the American Association for
Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) national conferences in 1995, 1996
and 1998, and the Association for Play Therapy (APT) national conferences
in 1992 and 1993. He has been involved in clinical supervision, training
and consultation for over 10 years. Wally has been an adjunct professor
at Radford University since 1993 and teaches in the School of Social
Work, and the Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology departments.
2001-2002 VAMFC Committee Chairs
Newsletter Co-Chairs:
Chris
Sacco-Bene -Chris Sacco-Bene is currently a full-time third year doctoral
student in the Counselor Education Ph.D. program at William & Mary.
She holds an M.S.Ed. in Community Service Counseling from Old Dominion
University. Since receiving her Master’s Degree, she has worked as an independent
living counselor and a vocational rehabilitation counselor. Chris plans
to continue working with people who experience disabilities, and wants
to develop a family focus in her work and research with this population.
In addition to counseling families she is a Student Co-Director at the
New Horizons Family Counseling Center at William & Mary. Chris is married
and is the proud mother of a four year old daughter.
Denny
Frank - Denny is currently a third year Counselor Education Ph.D. student.
He completed his undergraduate studies in Psychology at Olivet College
and received his Master's Degree in Community Counseling from Rollins College
in May 2001. Denny's background includes providing counseling services
to adolescents with behavioral problems and adults who have drug and alcohol
addictions. Denny's current clinical focus and research interests are with
Lesbigay couples and families.
Government
Relations - Deborah Turner - Debbie has been employed with the Richmond
Public Schools since 1978, formerly as special education teacher/educational
diagnostician and now as a school counselor. She obtained her Ph.D.
from The College of William and Mary in Counselor Education with a concentration
in family counseling. Debbie is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
and a Licensed Professional Counselor. Her background includes both
clinical and school-based experiences with families with special needs.
Currently, Debbie works in an alternative urban secondary school setting
with a special program for adolescent parents and their infant children.
She holds a Masters Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Virginia Commonwealth
University, Postgraduate Professional Endorsements in Special Education,
Guidance and Counseling Pre-K through Grade 12, and an Educational Specialist
Degree from the College of William and Mary. She served for eight
years on the faculty of the Children’s Hospital Education Program as an
educational consultant with the pediatric clinic for children with traumatic
brain injury, and other low-incidence disabling conditions. Originally
from Roanoke, Virginia, she is the mother of two teenagers. Debbie has
a strong interest in working with families with special needs children
as well as in counselor development and education.
Membership -Open pending elections
Election: (Past President) -
Rip McAdams
Professional Development: Erin
Trzell
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