At the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF), we have a multidisciplinary staff of mental health providers that includes experienced child clinical psychologists, social workers, a child psychiatrist, and a speech-language pathologist. These experienced clinicians closely supervise our post-doctoral fellows, post-MSW fellows, doctoral-level psychology interns, clinical social work interns, and practicum students. Our staff provides culturally sensitive consultations for every case. Our team of clinicians is guided in their practice by our scientist-practitioner model in providing an integrative approach to evaluation and treatment.
Staff
Director
Dr. Cynthia Ewell Foster is the director of the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF). Dr. Ewell Foster is a licensed clinical child and adolescent psychologist with expertise in a variety of evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents. In addition to her position at UCCF, Dr. Ewell Foster also has a joint appointment as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she participates on the Depression and Suicide Prevention Research Team and provides teaching and supervision to mental health professionals in training. Dr. Ewell Foster has been working at the University of Michigan since 2002, joining IHA in 2011.
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Anupama (Anu) Agrawal, LMSW, is a clinical social worker at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF). Ms. Agrawal has had years of clinical experience before coming to the Institute for Human Adjustment, including clinical experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapy fellow at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Society and as a clinical instructor at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work before coming to Michigan.
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Eileen Bond, LMSW, is a clinical social worker at the University Center for the Child and the Family with over thirty years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. In her early career, she worked at Hawthorn Children's Psychiatric Hospital for eight years. She also developed two parenting classes in the community including a mother-daughter group addressing issues of puberty and "Parenting the Young Child" classes. In addition to supervising, teaching, and serving as a clinician, she maintains a private practice in Ann Arbor.
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Kristen M. Chapman, MA, is a senior speech/language/learning specialist at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF). Ms. Chapman started the psychoeducational testing service at UCCF, and is involved in the coordination of that service. She also supervises the intake process for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) evaluations. After clients go through evaluations for attention and/or learning problems, Ms. Chapman participates in feedback sessions to help families with educational follow-up. The educational consultation service is available to families whose children are tested at UCCF, the families of children who are clients at UCCF, as well as children and families in the greater Ann Arbor, Michigan, community.
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Dr. Polly Gipson is a licensed child clinical psychologist and supervising faculty member at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF). In addition to her appointment at UCCF, Dr. Gipson is a Research Investigator in the Department of Psychiatry, child/adolescent section, at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At UCCF, Dr. Gipson coordinates training for psychology practicum students and provides training and clinical services in diagnostic assessment, anxiety, depression, trauma, and suicide risk assessment and intervention.
Read the full bio Elise K. Hodges, PhD, is an instructor and supervising neuropsychologist at the U-M Psychological Clinic and the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF). She has been working at the Institute for Human Adjustment (IHA) since March 2009. In addition to her role at IHA, Dr. Hodges is also a clinical assistant professor and associate clinical director of the neuropsychology section in the UMHS Department of Psychiatry.
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Dr. Ashlyn Knesek, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF). She has previously worked at UCCF as a post-doctoral fellow and at the Insittue for Human Adjustment (IHA) as a psychology intern. Ashlyn has a great deal of practicum experience and is qualified to provide therapy to groups and individuals in a number of different treatment modalities.
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Dr. Fiona Miller, licensed clinical psychologist, supervises and practices in the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) program at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The services offered include diagnostic assessments, individual therapy, parent support, social skills groups, and school consults. She is also an ASD phenotyping consultant on the Simons Variation in Individuals Project (Simons VIP).
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Sheri Stankorb-Geiselman, LLMSW, is a post-MSW fellow at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF), where she provides psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and families, as well as couples therapy and parent guidance. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Prior to her fellowship, Sheri was a social work intern at UCCF where, in addition to psychotherapy services, she helped facilitate a social skills group, and presented to parents on the emotional impact of parenting kids with ADHD and learning disabilities.
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Valerie Anderson, BBA, is the billing specialist for the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF) and the U-M Psychological Clinic. Before starting at the Institute for Human Adjustment (IHA), Ms. Anderson worked as a patient account representative in the medical procedures unit.
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Cindy Davis, MA, is the Patient Services Associate at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF). Ms. Davis has been working at UCCF since January 2005. As a patient services associate, Ms. Davis greets and assists visitors to UCCF and the U-M Psychological Clinic, answers phones at both locations, and handles assorted front office duties.
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Kendra Williams-Gollman, BBA, is the clinic office manager at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF) and the U-M Psychological Clinic.
Read the full bio Carol Woodard, BA, is the senior administrative assistant in the IHA central office. She works closely with our trainees and interns, planning their events from orientation to graduation. Before coming to IHA, Ms. Woodard worked as a supervisor and customer service representative for phone companies in Atlanta, Georgia, and San Francisco, California. She started working in the U-M Psychological Clinic in 1995 as the daytime receptionist and progressed through office supervisor to senior administrative assistant in the IHA central office.
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Angela Ayoub, LLMSW, is a post-MSW fellow at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF). She earned both her graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan, completed an internship at the University of Michigan Health System Department of Psychiatry in the Child and Adolescent Division, and has received training in a variety of evidence-based practices.
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Vanessa Hus Bal, MSc, TTLP, is a Consortium Psychology intern at the University Center for the Child and the Family and a doctoral candidate in the University of Michigan’s Clinical Psychology Program. Prior to beginning the Clinical Psychology program, much of Vanessa’s time has focused on clinical and research training in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). She has worked at the University of Michigan Autism & Communication Disorders Center, University of Oxford Neurodevelopmental Magnetoencephalography Centre, and the University of Washington Autism Center.
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Adenike K. Griffin, MS, MSW, is a post-MSW fellow at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF), where she provides individual, parent, family, and couples therapy. Adenike has worked with children and families with a wide range of mental health challenges and has experience working with a wide array of treatments.
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Caitlin (Cait) Hanley, BA, is a social work intern at the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF) and a Master of Social Work candidate at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Prior to interning at UCCF, Cait taught elementary school with Teach For America and eventually joined Teach For America's National Recruitment Team.
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Adam Horwitz, BA, is a psychology practicum student at the University Center for the Child and the Family. Adam has been involved with the University of Michigan's Youth Depression and Suicide Prevention Research Program for the past five years. He is also a graduate student instructor for the Introduction to Psychology course at the University of Michigan.
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Kylene (Kyle) Krause, MS, is an intern at the Institute for Human Adjustment (IHA). Before coming to IHA, Kyle did clinical work at a community outpatient psychology clinic, an intensive inpatient psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents, and a parent-child relationship clinic. Kyle has also taught Developmental Psychology at both Eastern Michigan University and Hope College.
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Katherine (Katie) Kusner, MA, TLLP, is a pre-doctoral psychology intern at the Institute for Human Adjustment (IHA) and a doctoral candidate in Bowling Green State University's Clinical Psychology Program. Katie enjoys working with a variety of age groups and splits her full-time intern position at the institute between UCCF and the Psychological Clinic. She recently defended her dissertation, an empirical research study examining the longitudinal links between couple spirituality and relationship outcomes across the transition to parenthood.
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Stephanie Lonsway, MA, TLLP, is a pre-doctoral psychology intern at the Institute for Human Adjustment (IHA) and a doctoral candidate in Northern Illinois University’s Clinical Psychology program. Stephanie works with clients across the age range using a variety of treatment modalities (individual, group, family, couples, psychological assessment); she splits her full-time internship position at the institute between the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF) and the U-M Psychological Clinic.
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Ellen Waxler McGinnis, BS, is a psychology practicum student at the University Center for the Child and Family and a doctoral candidate in the University of Michigan’s Clinical Psychology Program. In addition to her clinical training Ellen works on her coursework and research on depression and anxiety in young children.
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Sierra Thompson, MS, is a clinical psychology intern at the Institute for Human Adjustment (IHA). Prior to beginning her internship, Sierra was in Palo Alto, California, for graduate school. While there, she enjoyed clinical rotations in many settings, including a university-based outpatient clinic, a county-based child and family therapy clinic, and inpatient Hospice and Palliative Care Units at the Palo Alto VA.
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