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Meet Our Faculty and Staff
Our courses are taught by highly-trained licensed mental health counselors and diverse faculty members with clinical experience in the mental health field. Our faculty commit themselves to making the graduates of our Clinical Mental Health Counseling program the most knowledgeable and best prepared professionals in the counseling field.
At Molloy, the faculty is committed to service learning, experiential learning and promoting a transformative experience. In our graduate program, courses are taught by highly trained and licensed mental health counselors. Our graduate counseling faculty understands the importance of the counselor professional identity and promotes the growth and development of each student as a professional counselor.
We emphasize the importance of scholarly excellence, compassionate understanding, and competent practice. We believe that an education should not stop with the granting of a degree, so we encourage the continued pursuit of knowledge, scholarly publication, and research as modes of increasing professional competence and contributing to the development of the mental health and counseling fields.
Candice Crawford is a graduate of New York University's Mental Health and Wellness Counseling program and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Counseling from Montclair State University. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of New York and has worked in various capacities as a bilingual counselor working with children, adolescents, and their families. Also, she has served as a clinical supervisor and program director in outpatient substance abuse facilities. Currently, she owns a private practice in the Bronx where she works with women of color who have endured trauma. Her research interests include multicultural competence in counseling and supervision, cross-racial supervision, and social justice advocacy. She is involved in numerous research projects and has presented research findings at regional and national conferences. Additionally, she is active in the counseling honor society, CSI, where she was elected Chapter President at Montclair State and was also chosen as one of CSI's international leadership fellows.
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Laura B. Kestemberg is a bilingual Spanish-English NYS Licensed Psychologist with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and her Master's degree in Clinical and School Psychology from Adelphi University's Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies. She has post-doctoral training in neuropsychology. Dr. Kestemberg has worked in a variety of clinical, medical, research, and higher education settings for 30 years. She served as the Clinical Director at the Center for Autism and Child Development at Molloy College from 2013-2016. She won Molloy College's Research Achievement Award in 2015. Her research and clinical interests include stress reduction and mindfulness techniques, developmental and emotional disabilities and their effects on family members, multicultural counseling, parenting groups, and supervision and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students. She has presented at local and national conferences (ACES, NARACES, ACA, NYMHCA, APA) on the topics of mindfulness techniques for counseling students, the effects of group therapy on parenting stress, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. She maintains a part-time private practice providing individual and group psychotherapy and assessment services to children and adults. More... |
Tyce Nadrich is a NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Nationally Certified Counselor. He received a MSEd. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from St. John's |
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Angelica Terepka, Psy.D. Dr. Terepka is a NYS licensed clinical psychologist trained in cognitive-behavioral therapy, trauma focused CBT, and acceptance and commitment therapy. She specializes in working with diverse populations, particularly with LGBTQIA+ and religious populations, and received the NYS Psychological Association Diversity Award for both her clinical and research contributions to the field of therapy. Dr. Terepka has specialized training in providing therapy to young adults and has held appointments at several university counseling centers where she developed and facilitated numerous workshops and therapy group focused on LGBTQIA+ support. She currently works as a psychologist for a hospital where she provides individual and group therapy to teens and young adults and their families; she also sees clients in private practice. In addition, Dr. Terepka is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center, and maintains adjunct faculty appointments in Fordham University's Graduate School of Education Counseling Psychology program, Long Island University's Counseling and School Psychology program, and Molloy College Mental Health Counseling Program. |
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Her research interests include: Coping Strategies Counselor Educators Use to Adjust to Death Within the Counseling Field, Understanding How Minority Cultures (the Indo-Guyanese population and North Indian cultures) Deal with Death, Gatekeeping Related Issues Related to Beginning Counselors and the Counseling Field, and How Substance Use Effects New York City Adolescents and Society today. She has presented for the Board of Education, Psychologists-In-Training and for the New York State Mental Health Counselors Association. Vanessa is delighted to serve as an adjunct faculty for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Molloy College. |
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Theresa Eaves is the Administrative Assistant to the CMHC department and works to support both faculty and students alike. Theresa N. Eaves |
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Emma Giordano is a third year counselor-in-training at Molloy and is currently a graduate assistant for the CMHC program. She was an intern for the National Eating Disorders Association and often creates presentations to speak to local students and teens about mental health awareness. After graduation, Emma hopes to work with adolescents and young adults with depression/eating disorders and has dreams to open her own private practice. |
Graduate Assistants |
Dawn Marie Lang is a second year counselor-in-training at Molloy College and is currently a graduate assistant for the CMHC program. She was a student ambassador for the Molloy violence prevention (MVP) program and is currently a student ambassador for NYMCHA. Dawn is also a current member of Molloy's CCRT (Coordinated Community Response Team) which addresses gender based violence. She plans to work with adolescents after graduation. |
Mental Health Counseling By the Numbers
50
States offering licensure to
practice privately
139,800+
Practicing, independent, mental health
counselors in the U.S.
19%
Projected job growth over the next
8 years
6,800+
Certified, licensed and practicing mental
health professionals in N.Y.
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Dr. Tyce Nadrich, LMHC, ACS, NCC30 Hempstead Avenue, Suite 248, Rockville Centre, NY 11571
516-323-3852
tnadrich@molloy.edu
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