Meet the experts
Our Team
The robust Continued Counseling course library is developed and overseen by an experienced team of behavioral health professionals and industry professionals.
Katie Kirk
PsyD, LAC
Manager of Content Strategy & Development
Katrinna Matthews
DSW, MEd, LAPSW
Strategic Content Developer
Olivia Walliser
CE Administrator
Chelsea Richardson
MSW, LCSW, LAC, C-DBT
Assistant Director, CEU Administration
Caitlin Grefe
Continuing Education Producer
Allison Nilsen
AM, LCSW
Strategic Content Developer
Featured Presenters
The instructors and guest editors who present our counseling courses are skilled experts in topics such as ethics, mental health and trauma.
Kristen Lee Discola received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Albany in 2017 and is now an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles. Her areas of specialization are social psychology, with a focus on identity and emotion, and crime and deviance, with a focus on victimization and trauma. Demonstrating a profound commitment to scholarship and professional growth, she has won a number of awards for her in-depth, qualitative work investigating individuals’ experiences following traumatic loss, including the inaugural Siegel Graduate Fellowship for Victimology Studies through the American Society of Criminology, Division of Victimology. She recently published a book based on three years of original research, Redefining Murder, Transforming Emotion: An exploration of forgiveness after loss due to homicide, which advances our understanding of the emotional experiences and identity processes that follow extreme trauma.
Victoria Lambrou is a trauma-focused psychotherapist with academic and professional/experiential backgrounds in arts and literature, international relations, social work, holistic and functional mental health, crisis mental health, disaster resilience leadership, humanitarianism, and collective trauma. She is currently a PhD student in transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies, a psychedelic-assisted therapy provider trainee, and a trainee in trauma-focused expressive arts therapy. She is focused on pioneering scholarly inquiry and praxis related to noetic studies and human consciousness.
Dr. Siegel is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Rhode Island College. She has also taught social work on the faculties at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Auburn University and as an Edith Abbott fellow at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. She has published research on a 22-year-long study of families living with open adoptions; and she has published numerous journal articles, chapters in books, and encyclopedia articles on other aspects of the adoption experience. Dr. Siegel is co-author of books on how to help struggling teens, many of whom have been adopted, and she has been instrumental in passing legislation allowing adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates.
Dr. Siegel also co-teaches a course titled “Homelessness: Clinical and Policy Interventions” and a course at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School titled “Homelessness and Healthcare.” Her fieldwork has included providing clinical services with mothers experiencing homelessness who have lost custody of their children, street outreach with interdisciplinary teams using trauma-informed approaches to engage people experiencing homelessness in services, and collaborating with a range of community organizations doing program development and advocacy at the legislative and executive levels of government. She has published articles on homelessness in the journal, Social Work Education, and in Social Work Today.
In addition, Dr. Siegel actively engages in legislative advocacy on a range of other human service issues, and she is a consultant, trainer, and conference presenter for many agencies across the United States.
Advisory Board
Continued Counseling benefits from the expertise of a distinguished Advisory Board, which provides topic-specific content in the development of the course library.
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