Katya Cerar, M.S.W., Ph.D. '13, LICSW
Senior Director of Practicum Learning
Katya Cerar, is the senior director of Practicum Education at Smith College and has taught and supervised students from various New England schools of social…
Mary Curtin, M.S.W. '00
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Mary Curtin, LICSW, is a graduate of Smith College School for Social Work and Brown University. Curtin has been a practicing clinician for over 20 years and has…
Annemarie Gockel, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Associate Professor | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Annemarie Gockel’s research centers on enhancing clinical intervention, clinical training, individual healing and growth. In her work with clients, Gockel is…
Alberto Guerrero, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Lecturer | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Alberto Guerrero, M.S.W., Ph.D., focuses his research on the intersecting impact of trauma, legal system involvement, and zero tolerance policies for…
Shveta Kumaria, M.A., Ph.D., LCSW
Assistant Professor | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Shveta Kumaria is an assistant professor in the School for Social Work. Kumaria’s research interests lie in psychotherapy research, more specifically therapist…
Arianne Napier-White, M.S.W. '15, LMSW
Director of M.S.W. Practicum Learning
Arianne J. Napier-White, LMSW (she/her) is a clinical social worker with experience working in hospitals, city government, acute trauma settings, outpatient…
Katie Potocnik Medina, LCSW
Director of Alumni Engagement | Practicum Faculty Advisor | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Katie serves as the director of alumni engagement for Smith College School of Social Work. Her goal is to increase alumni connections and build a dynamic…
Traneika Turner-Wentt, M.S.W., D.S.W.
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Associate Chair of the Practice Sequence
Dr. Traneika Turner-Wentt, is a mental wellness clinician and spiritual counselor with two decades of experience in hospital and mental healthcare. She manages…
Ann Augustine, M.S.W., MPP, LICSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Ann T. Augustine (she/her), LICSW, M.S.W., MPP has been a practicing psychotherapist for over 25 years. She is a graduate of Smith College School for Social…
Stephen J. Bradley, M.Ed., M.S.W., LICSW, LMHC
Practicum Seminar Instructor
Stephen (he/him) received his M.Ed. in counseling from Umass Amherst in 1992 and his M.S.W. from Smith College SSW in 2002. After working as an Outward Bound…
Ezra Buchdahl, M.S.W.,LCSW-C
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Ezra Buchdahl (him/his), M.S.W., LCSW-C, and Certified Residential Child Care Program Administrator, is a 1988 graduate from the University of Maryland School…
Anika Carter, M.S.W., LCSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Anika Carter, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on holistic mental health services. Anika’s orientation is person-centered, which honors and…
Rebecca Castro, M.S.W., LICSW
Adjunct Associate Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Prep Instructor | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Bio to come.
Sarai Engel, M.S.W. '06, LCSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Sarai SaeHee Engel, LCSW is a clinical social worker and art therapist in Portland, Oregon and with over 20 years of experience working with children and…
Penelope Katz Facher, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Penelope Facher has over 30 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples and families, in the fields of education and mental health…
Emily Fischer-Rodriguez, M.S.W. '06, LICSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Emily Fischer-Rodríguez is a clinical social worker in private practice in Northampton, MA. In addition to her psychotherapy practice, she has been advising M.S…
Laura Melano Flanagan, M.S.W.
Practicum Faculty Adviser
In 1985 Laura Melano Flanagan began teaching the first Integrative Seminar in the M.S.W. program at Smith. This was followed by decades of developing and…
Michelle Fortunado-Kewin, LCSW
Practicum Seminar Instructor
Michelle Fortunado-Kewin, LCSW, (she/her) works with a Pupil Personnel Services Credential (PPSC) in School Social Work and Child Welfare and Attendance…
Monifa Groover, M.S.W., M.P.A.
Adjunct Professor | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Throughout her professional career, Monifa Groover has served in a variety of clinical settings, including but not limited to working with military personnel…
Laurie Herzog, M.S.W. '85, Ph.D. '97
Adjunct Professor | Practicum Seminar Instructor | Director of the Advanced Clinical Supervision and Foundations of Clinical Supervision Certificates
Laurie Herzog is the director of the Advanced Clinical Supervision program at the Smith College School for Social Work. She earned her M.S.W. (1985) and her Ph…
Andres Hoyos, M.S., M.S.W., LCSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Andrés Hoyos brings over two decades of clinical and administrative experience in the fields of mental health and social services working in private, public and…
Diana Huynh, M.S.W., LICSW, PMH-C
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Diana Huynh (she/her), LICSW, PMH-C, is a clinical supervisor and therapist at a group practice based in Rhode Island. She holds a BA in English with a minor in…
Shiva Jyoti, M.S.S.W.
Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Prep Instructor
Shiva Jyoti is a psychotherapist in private practice, San Antonio, Texas. Her practice focuses on well-being and spirituality (adults) incorporating meditation…
Erin Neil Kolasinski, EdM, LICSW
Practicum Faculty Advisor
Erin (she/her) is a clinical social worker based in Northampton/Easthampton, MA. In her private practice, Erin specializes in work with kids, teens/young adults…
Jessica Lief, M.S.W., LCSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Prep Instructor
Jessica C. Lief, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist who specializes in the treatment of substance use disorders, eating disorders…
Renee Lindquist
Adjunct Associate Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Prep Instructor | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Ellie Lipton
Practicum Faculty Advisor | Practicum Prep Instructor
Ellie Lipton (they/she) is a clinical social worker living in Long Beach, California. Ellie maintains a private practice where they work with teens and adults…
Aimee Maxwell, M.S.W., LICSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Aimee Maxwell, LICSW, is a mental health consultant and care coordinator for the mental health department at Allina Health, a large health care system in the…
Julia Milmed, M.S.W. '20, LICSW
Practicum Faculty Advisor
Julia Milmed, LICSW (she/her) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Northampton, MA. She works from a psychoanalytic perspective with individuals and…
Lujuana Milton, M.S.W., LICSW
Adjunct Professor | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Lujuana Milton is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW). She graduated with a B.A. and a M.S.W. degree from Boston College. With over 15 years…
Lauren Montemuro-Rode, M.S.W., Ph.D. student
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Lauren Montemuro-Rode received her M.S.W. with a gerontology concentration in 2013 from Washington University in St. Louis. She worked as a research assistant…
Mariko Ono, M.S.W. '06, LCSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Mariko "Mod" Ono, LCSW (she/her) is an Asian American, queer-identified social worker on the West Coastline. Ono received her M.S.W. from Smith College SSW in…
Janae Peters, M.S.W., LMSW
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Practicum Seminar Instructor and Sotomayor Fellow
An alum of the Smith School for Social Work, Peters graduated from the M.S.W. program in 2015. Her goal has been to integrate her social work experience with…
Beth Prullage, M.S.W. '01, LICSW
Adjunct Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Beth Prullage works at the University of Massachusetts Amherst at the Center for Counseling and Psychological Health as a psychiatric social worker and co…
Michael J. “Mick” Rogers, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Michael “Mick” Rogers graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill’s M.S.W. program in 1980 and worked with children (on Medicaid) and their families for 30 years and then…
Susie Ryder, M.S.W., LCSW, LAC
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Susie Ryder, LCSW, LAC is the director of undergraduate and graduate field education at MSU Denver. She received her bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College. She…
Sara Schieffelin, LICSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Prep Instructor | Professional Education Instructor
Sara Schieffelin, LICSW, (she/her/hers), a Smith College School for Social Work alumna, has worked with children, adolescents, families and adults in…
Maytal Schmidt, M.S.W. '15
Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Prep Instructor
Maytal Schmidt (she/her) identifies as a white, cisgender woman. She has conducted individual psychotherapy and group therapy with children, adolescents and…
Lili Schwan-Rosenwald, M.S.W., LICSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Prep Instructor | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Lili Schwan-Rosenwald, LICSW (she/her) identifies as a white lesbian cisgender woman. She received her M.S.W. from Smith College SSW. After graduation she…
Phebe Sessions, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
Sessions' practice and research background includes both psychodynamic and family therapy theories and practice models. At Smith, Sessions taught courses in…
Ebony Smalls
Practicum Faculty Advisor
Ebony Smalls, LMSW is a NYC Native, growing up in the Bronx and adulting in Brooklyn. Ebony attended Penn State for undergrad but came back to her New York…
Tanita Teagle, M.S.W. '99, LCSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Tanita Cox Teagle is a 1999 graduate of the Smith College SSW M.S.W. program. She currently serves as a practicum faculty advisor for the M.S.W. program. Teagle…
Christopher Vaughan, M.S.W.. Ph.D. '06
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Dr. Vaughan received his B.A. in psychology and M.S.W. from the University of Maryland and his Ph.D. from the Smith College School for Social Work in 2006. He…
Loan Vo, Ph.D. '24
Practicum Seminar Instructor
Phuongloan (Loan) Vo (she/her) is a clinical social worker whose work include short term and in-depth long term psychosocial therapy for individuals who…
Chris Watkins, M.S.W.
Adjunct Assistant Professor | Practicum Faculty Adviser | Practicum Seminar Instructor
Keshia Williams, LCSW
Practicum Faculty Adviser
Keshia Williams, LCSW (Your Grace,They/She) is a clinical consultant and steward of Black love and care with 20 years of diverse clinical, teaching and…