UHS - Counseling Services Staff

Counseling Services' Staff

Counseling Service's staff is helpful, open, and experienced. In addition to our professional staff, graduate students from the departments of Psychology and Leadership and Counseling are also available to work with clients. The staff includes:

Lisa Lauterbach, Ph.D., Director:
Lisa is a licensed clinical psychologist. She has returned to working with university students after having worked at veteran's hospitals and mental health clinics for 10 years. She has experience in working with clients with sexual trauma, eating disorders, substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. She joined our team in 2002.

Oscar Alcaine, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist:
Oscar is a licensed clinical psychologist who started working at EMU in 2006 after moving from New York where he worked at SUNY Purchase’s Counseling Center and previous to that, completed a clinical fellowship at Columbia University Counseling and Psychological Services. His interests include working with students who present with anxiety and depression, multicultural issues in therapy, interpersonal processes in treatment, and the integration of eclectic perspectives in psychotherapy.

Lourdes Mir-Orrange, LMSW, Clinical Social Worker:
Lourdes is a licensed clinical social worker who joined the EMU Counseling Services team in 2007. She comes to EMU with 18 years of clinical experience after having worked in several outpatient mental health clinics, public health clinics, and at Cornell Counseling and Psychological Services. Her experience includes working with clients with depression and anxiety, intimate relationship conflict, domestic violence, grief/loss issues, chronic illness, and phase of life problems. Lourdes is especially interested in working with international students around acculturation issues and working with multicultural issues in therapy.

Sharon Carney, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist:
Sharon is a limited licensed psychologist and a licensed professional counselor. She earned her doctorate in Counseling Psychology at Western Michigan University. Sharon completed her predoctoral internship at the University of Notre Dame in 2006 and worked as a clinician at the University of Notre Dame and Valparaiso University prior to joining EMU Counseling Services in April 2008. Her areas of clinical interests include women's issues; multicultural and feminist psychology; trauma and abuse recovery; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues; spirituality; and use of creative arts in counseling.

Melissa Rosenblum, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist:
Melissa is a psychologist that joined the EMU Counseling Services team in 2008 following her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan Psychological Clinic. She earned her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Her interests include experiential approaches to treatment, supervision and training, interpersonal process groups, multicultural issues in therapy, and couples therapy.

Stephanie Tandy, Senior Secretary:
Stephanie has worked at Eastern Michigan University since 1999 and joined the Counseling Services team in 2001.

Graduate Student Counselors

Max Butterfield, B.A., Student Therapist
Max is a second-year master’s student in the General Clinical Psychology program at EMU. He previously worked with adolescents in a residential treatment facility, and he is currently involved in research investigating Borderline Personality Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Yung-Tsen Chen, B.A., Student Therapist:
Yung-Tsen is a second year master's student in the General Clinical Psychology Program at EMU. Her clinical interests include depression, anxiety, and relationship problems. She is especially interested in working with international students having difficulties in adjustment and/or acculturation. Her research focuses on examining the validity of measures for depressive personality disorder and the differentation between DPD and MDD.

Chelsea Dean Cawood, B.S., Student Therapist:
Chelsea is a third year student in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program at EMU. Chelsea has previously worked as a student therapist at the EMU Psychology Clinic and has experience working with self-injury (i.e. cutting), anxiety, depression, and emotion dysregulation, and had co-led a skills training group (based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy). Her research focuses on self-injury and personality disorders among late adolescents and college students.

Luciane L. de Mello, BA Psychology, MSW Student:
Luciane is a fourth-year EMU Master Social Work – concentration Mental Illness and Chemical Dependency. Her training is in psychodynamic theory and she has experience working in outpatient and impatient settings, counseling individuals and groups with moderate and severe psychological disturbances. Her interests include crisis early intervention and prevention.

Mary Gillis, M.S., Psychology Trainee
Mary has been with Counseling Services since 2006, when she was a student therapist. She is currently working towards licensure. Her training is in cognitive-behavioral interventions for depression and anxiety, and she has a special interest in interpersonal and social influences on mood. She has presented workshops on self-esteem and body image, and trust and communication in relationships.

Mehreen Hassan, B.S., Student Therapist
Mehreen is a second year master's student in the General Clinical Psychology Program at Eastern Michigan University. Her clinical and research interests include depression, anxiety, family and couple relationships, and mental health issues within the elderly and multicultural populations. Her prior experience includes working with the geriatric population.

Chris Roberts, B.A., Student Therapist
Chris is a second year master’s student in the General Clinical Psychology program at Eastern Michigan University. Chris has previously conducted group educational clinics for delinquent substance users on campus as a Graduate Assistant for the Health Education program at EMU. He has also supervised a class designed to aid individuals control and cope with aggressive impulses. Chris’ clinical interests include comorbid anxiety and depressive disorders, borderline, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders. Chris’ present research interests include depression, fear of negative evaluation and narcissism, as well as the effects or repercussions of immersive technology on one’s sense of self and social identity.

Counselors In Residence

Leanna Fortunato, M.S.
Leanna is a fourth year doctoral fellow in the Clinical Psychology program and currently serves as the Counselor-in-Residence at the First Year Center. In addition to being the CIR, she has worked at the EMU Psychology Clinic and the University of Michigan Counseling and Psychological Services. Her clinical interests involve working with emergent adults, implementing prevention programs, and raising awareness of mental health issues. She also has experience working with relationship problems, anxiety, depression, and developmental issues.

Graduate Assistant

Lance Kuebler, B.S.
Lance Kuebler came to EMU in the fall of 2002 to begin his undergraduate degree in Psychology and Sociology. He began working for EMU Counseling Services the following fall as a student secretary in the front office. He also gained experience, as an undergrad, working in a rehabilitation center for persons with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and administering an ABA Psychology program to a child with Autism. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in April of 2006. After a 2 year hiatus from EMU, Lance has returned in 2008 to pursue a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and is currently the Graduate Assistant for EMU Counseling Services.