Doctor of Psychology Faculty

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Core Faculty

A dedicated faculty of practitioner-scholars offers a student-faculty ratio of approximately 12 to 1. In its selection of faculty and program staff, John F. Kennedy University aims to reflect diversity in gender, race, ethnicity, physical ability, sexual orientation, class and other areas.

Sukie Magraw, PhD, Program Director
Core faculty and Professor of Clinical Psychology
B.A., Harvard University, 1978
PhD, California School of Professional Psychology, 1992

Prior to returning to school for her doctorate, Sukie worked in college athletics for eight years. Her professional interests are in the areas of integrating psychodynamic, systemic and societal influences when working clinically; feminist therapy; alternative families; and the effects of oppression on the psyche. She has a private practice in Berkeley. She is past president of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California. Dr. Magraw is currently Chair of the Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Committee of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology, and a member of NCSPP's Executive Committee.

Sarah Carroll, PhD, Director of Research
Core faculty and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology
B.S., Duke University, 1983
PhD, The Wright Institute, 1998

Dr. Carroll teaches classes in the research sequence including Research Methods, Quantitative Research, and Dissertation Proposal. She also developed and has taught the new Writing Like a Psychologist course, as well as the Supervision and Management course. Dr. Carroll has previously worked in public health, other doctoral programs, and in the computer industry. She has a private psychotherapy practice in Oakland, and supervises practicum students at Pacific Center for Human Growth (a local LGBT counseling center). Her professional interests include clinical supervision, psychotherapy from a feminist/social justice perspective, and gender identity.

Alette Coble-Temple, PsyD
Core faculty and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology
B.S., Santa Clara University, 1993
M.A., Sport Psychology, John F. Kennedy University, 1995
PsyD, John F. Kennedy University, 1999

Dr. Coble-Temple teaches IPS-II, IPS-III, Lifespan Development I and II, Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and Treatment, Disability Culture, Clinical Sport Psychology, and Adoption & Psychology. Prior to coming to JFK, she worked as a therapist with adolescent girls in a residential treatment facility. Dr. Coble-Temple does ongoing work for the Board of Parole Hearings as an independent evaluator for Mentally Disordered Offenders. Her professional interests include attachment theory and resiliency in children and adolescents, sexuality and disability, forensic psychology, sport psychology, group process, and culturally competent psychotherapy for persons with disabilities. Her personal interests include traveling, public speaking, skiing, and spending time with her family.

Terri M. Davis, PhD
Core faculty and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology
B.A., Virginia Union University, 1990
PhD, The Ohio State University, 1995

Dr. Davis teaches Clinical Skills and IPS-III. She is a member of the Training Committee. She has worked in several university counseling centers and as adjunct faculty in masters and doctoral programs in Denver, Colorado and Boston, Massachusetts. She is a member of American Psychological Association Society of Counseling Psychology, Division 17. She has served as a member on the APA Board of Professional Psychology, Advisory Committee for Colleague Assistance. Her professional interests include models and applications of supervision and consultation, the psychosocial needs of professionals of color, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. Dr. Davis enjoys live jazz, discovering new restaurants, and exploring the beauty of California parks, beaches, and neighborhoods.

Alejandrina Estrada, PhD
Core faculty and Professor of Clinical Psychology
B.A., University of Puerto Rico, 1975
PhD, The Wright Institute, 1987

Dr. Estrada began her teaching career at John F. Kennedy University in 1993, teaching Cross-Cultural Psychology as Adjunct Professor for the M.A. Program in Counseling Psychology. In 1996, she joined the PsyD Program as core faculty where she has taught courses in Child and Adolescent Development, Child & Adolescent Psychopathology and Treatment, Play Therapy, Management and Supervision, Integrative Professional Seminar I and III, Introduction to Psychodynamic Theories, Advanced Psychodynamic Theory and Consulting to Community Agencies. Dr. Estrada has worked in Outpatient Community Mental Health for twenty years serving low-income families and their children. She acted as the Associate Director of the Internship Training Program for five years where she assisted in the development and implementation of the training program. Dr. Estrada was also involved in the supervision and mentoring of interns and taught a seminar on Clinical Interventions with Children and Families of Color. Dr. Estrada conducts trainings at Diablo Valley Community College and Los Medanos College for foster and adoptive parents on the topics of attachment, parenting and learning disabilities in children. She has been interviewed in local TV and radio Spanish-speaking stations on different subject matters such as the psychological impact of migration and acculturation, Latino mental health and End of Life Issues. Dr. Estrada was the Keynote Speaker at the CARE Parent Network annual conference in 2007 where she spoke about supporting Families of Diverse Cultures with Special Need Children and presented a paper at the American Psychological Association annual convention in 2007 with her colleague Dr. Mattar on Evidenced-Based Practice in Trauma Research. Dr. Estrada maintains a small private practice in Concord, CA.

Kristin Hancock, PhD
Core Faculty and Professor of Psychology
B.A., Slavic Languages & Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1970
B.A., Psychology, California State University, Hayward, 1973
M.S., Counseling, California State University, Hayward, 1975
PhD, Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley, 1978

Dr. Hancock has taught Adult Psychopathology, Ethical and Legal Issues in Professional Psychology, Clinical Skills, Consultation and Education, and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Professional Psychology. In 1996, Dr. Hancock was awarded Fellow status in the American Psychological Association (APA) in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the science and profession of psychology. In 2008, APA's Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women) honored Dr. Hancock with its Laura Brown Award for her work on lesbian and bisexual women's issues. She also received awards from the National Council of Schools of Professional Psychology (NCSPP) and APA's Division 44 (Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues) for her work in lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues. Dr. Hancock is currently serving on APA's Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest. She is past-chair of the APA's Board of Professional Affairs, the Committee on Professional Practice and Standards, the Committee on Women in Psychology, and the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns (CLGBTC). She is past-chair of the Association of Lesbian and Gay Psychologists, past-president of APA's Division 44, and served for 6 years on APA's Council of Representatives. Hancock was the co-chair of a CLGBTC/Division 44 Joint Task Force on Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients and, in this capacity, coauthored these guidelines which were adopted by APA in February, 2000. She is also heading the group responsible for the revision of these practice guidelines. Dr. Hancock assisted in the review of APA's Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change which were adopted by APA in 2002 and the Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women which were adopted by APA in 2007. In addition, she has served for a number of years as clinical supervisor and consulting psychologist at the Project Eden Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program in Hayward.

Sandra Mattar, PsyD
Core Faculty and Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., Universidad Catolica Andres Bello
M.A., Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Venezuela, 1988
PsyD, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, 1994

Mattar is a licensed psychologist. She is a founding member of the Division of Trauma Psychology (Div. 56) of the American Psychological Association and its first Membership Chair. She currently co-chairs Div. 56's Task Force on Diversity and Trauma and is a Member of the Education and Dissemination Task Force of Div. 56. Her main professional work focuses around immigrant families, the psychology of acculturation, cultural considerations in Trauma Psychology, ethnic and racial identity, multicultural mental health issues and Trauma and Disaster Psychology. Mattar currently teaches the IPS-II Seminar, the Psychology of Trauma and Resilience, Cultural Considerations in Disaster Mental Health, and the Treating Immigrants course. She has taught courses for the University of California, Berkeley Extension, the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and Alliant University (San Francisco). She is an ad-hoc editor for several journals in Psychology.

Haydee Montenegro, PsyD, Director of Training
Core faculty and Professor of Clinical Psychology
Studies in Licenciatura en Psicologia Clinica, University of Habana, Cuba, 1967
Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, University of Madrid, Spain, 1968
M.A., Social and Personality Psychology, New School University, NYC, 1973
PsyD, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 1986

Dr. Montenegro is licensed as a Psychologist in New York State. In addition to her role as Training Director, Dr. Montenegro chairs the Training Committee and teaches core courses in the Psychology Department. Dr. Montenegro specializes in forensic psychology, trauma and culturally-based resilience to traumatic events. She represented the World Federation for Mental Health at the United Nations for 18 years. Dr. Montenegro has an extensive clinical experience. This has advocated on the national and international levels in the areas of mental health and human rights, as well as labor issues activism. Her labor/management background focuses on leadership training, mediation and conflict resolution. She is bilingual in Spanish and English. Dr. Montenegro is a member of APA and the APA HOPE Program.

Jennifer Moore-McDowell, Ph.D
Core faculty and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1988
Major - Psychology Minor - Spanish; Dean's List Graduate
M.A., California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley/Alameda 1990
PhD., California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley/Alameda 1993

Dr. Moore-McDowell joined the JFK faculty in Spring of 2009 after 20 years of clinical work in community mental health and other social service agencies. She has worked in San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa counties providing clinical and assessment services to children, adolescents, young adults, families, and parents in both community and medical settings. As a licensed psychologist, Dr. Moore-McDowell has worked for the past 11 years at Contra Costa County Health Services. Here, she served as Assessment Supervisor to doctoral level graduate students for her first 7 years at the East County Child and Adolescent Clinic in Antioch. Later, she became the Training Director and Assessment Supervisor of the internship program for graduate students at the West Contra Costa County Child and Adolescent Clinic in Richmond. Along with her colleagues, Dr.Moore-McDowell created a stellar training program where students were trained in community and minority mental health, culturally competent psychological assessment, family therapy, play therapy, and group therapy. Dr. Moore-McDowell is passionate about ensuring the delivery of quality mental health and assessment services for all clients, but especially for those of color where huge disparities still exist. Her research interests include academic achievement, psychosocial competence, and resiliency in children and families. She is also interested in qualitative/observational and quantitative forms of assessment, learning disabilities, and psychotherapy process and outcome. Dr. Moore-McDowell earned two dissertation awards/grants (from the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and the Fahz Beck Foundation) on her doctoral dissertation which explored family correlates of academic achievement and psychosocial competence in African American elementary school students. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and has been a member of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California. She has a private practice in Concord, California where she specializes in providing psychotherapy and assessment services to children, adolescents, young adults, and families. She and her husband are also parents to two daughters who keep them on their toes!

Peter H. VanOot, PhD
Core faculty and Professor of Clinical Psychology
B.A., University of Delaware, 1973
M.A., University of British Columbia, 1976
PhD, Penn State University, 1988

Dr. Van Oot has taught at the graduate level for over 25 years and has been with John F. Kennedy University since 1995. He teaches Biological Basis of Behavior, Psychopharmacology, Health Psychology, Cognitive-Behavioral Theory (CBT), Advanced CBT, and a Neuropsychological Assessment sequence. His research background includes neuroanatomy, the neurophysiology of epilepsy, sleep and anxiety disorders; and he continues to focus on the physiological or medical processes that underlie or contribute to psychological disturbances. Dr. VanOot maintains a consultation-based private practice, specializing in neuropsychological and general psychological assessment/evaluation. He is a member of APA Division 12, 38, and 40, as well as the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN). He believes in a mentorship model of supervision hoping to impart to his students "the experience and direction I wish I would have received from my advisors - but oftentimes didn't."

Eric B. Vogel, PsyD
Core faculty and Associate Professor
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991
PsyD, John F. Kennedy University, 2002

Dr. Vogel currently teaches a number of courses, including Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior, Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior, Foundations of Professional Psychology - History and Systems, Qualitative Research, the Dissertation Proposal sequence, and Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy. His research and scholarly interests include cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, psychotherapeutic game development, South Asian psychology, and philosophical psychology. His best known work is: Land of Psymon: A Cognitive Psychotherapy Game, (Western Psychological Services). Outside the field of psychology, Dr. Vogel has had work published in literary journals such as Stand, The Antigonish Review and Sanskrit; he also wrote and directed the feature film Reflected (Human Artifacts Productions).

Kayoko Yokoyama, PhD
Core faculty and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology
B.A., American University, 1993
M.A./EdM, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1996
PhD, Arizona State University, 2003

Dr. Yokoyama joined the PsyD faculty in 2004 and teaches the first year Integrated Professional Seminar, Asian American Psychology, and Psychology of Women. She has worked at university counseling centers in New York, Arizona, and California and has specialized training in eating disorders and body image. Her areas of interest include feminist therapy, multicultural training, body image, and Asian American issues. She is in private practice in Albany, CA.

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Adjunct Instructors

Sheila Addison, PhD, LMFT
B.A., Indiana State University, 1994
M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996
M.A., Syracuse University, 2000
PhD, Syracuse University, 2007

Dr. Addison is core faculty in the MA Counseling Psychology program, and is passionate about using family systems theory to guide clinical work aimed at supporting happier, healthier relationships. She is a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Her professional work focuses on couples, GLBT clients, families with adolescents, and those who live in marginalized communities. She practices from a feminist, multicultural, integrative family systems perspective; her work is concerned with relational justice, issues of gender and culture, the operation of power in relationships and increasing capacity for intimacy and emotion. She is the co-author of five chapters in "The Therapist's Notebook for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Clients," and of a chapter on sexuality and supervision in "Readings in Family Therapy Supervision." In December 2008, Dr. Addison published two chapters in "Multicultural Couple Therapy," one on white privilege and one on work with minority same-sex couples. She has taught courses such as Feminist Therapy and Gender and the Family for the PsyD program, and sits on several dissertation committees.

Amy Bandera, PsyD
Psychodynamic Theory and Applications to Diverse Populations

John Ford, LLB
Mediation and Conflict Resolution

Liza Hecht, PsyD
Integrated Professional Seminar - I

John Lang, PhD
Assessment

Jill Miller, PsyD
Integrated Professional Seminar - I

Ellen Pulleyblank-Coffey, PhD
Advanced Family Therapy

Alison Rhodius, PhD
BSc, (Hons.), Psychology, University of Stirling
MSc, Sport Science, Liverpool John Moores University
PhD, Sport Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University

Dissertation Proposal sequence
Dr. Rhodius oversees the Master/s research process in the sport psychology program and teaches the main introductory class and some of the group supervision classes for the students. She also teaches the introductory sport psychology class for the Continuing & Extended Education department. She is the coordinator of the MA/PsyD linked program.

Alison is accredited for applied work through the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) and is certified as a sport psychology consultant through the Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). She is on the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Register for Sport Psychology and is a Chartered Psychologist in the United Kingdom with the British Psychological Society.

She has her own private practice in the San Francisco Bay area and works with athletes and coaches from all sports, but has specialized in elite performers. She worked with the British archery team for several years and has worked with both the U.S team and the team from India since moving to the U.S. in 2000. She is the only person to be on the international governing body's (FITA) approved expert list for sport psychology, has traveled the world working with archers and coaches and regularly writes for the international archery magazine, Archery Focus.

2004 was a monumental year for Alison and involved traveling to India, Thailand, Italy, Turkey and Athens to work with elite the archers from various countries. At the Olympics in Athens, she worked with the US team and the British number one archer, who won the bronze medal.

Alena Schabes, PsyD
Family Systems Theory and Applications to Diverse Populations

Sophie Soltani, PsyD
B.S., Roosevelt University
M.A., John F. Kennedy University
PsyD, Alliant International University
Integrated Professional Seminar - II
Clincal Interviewing Skills

Terry Soo-Hoo, PhD
B.A., California State University, Northridge
M.S., San Francisco State University
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Brief Therapy
Couples Therapy

Dr. Terry Soo-Hoo is currently a full time faculty member at the California State University Hayward in the Educational Psychology Department. He is also an adjunct faculty member at John F. Kennedy University, teaching in both the Psy.D Program and the MFT Program. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California Berkeley. Prior to moving on to university teaching he worked for over 20 years in various community mental health agencies with diverse clients. He has specialized in family therapy, brief therapy and cross cultural counseling. He has published on multi-cultural issues in psychotherapy and consultation and the application of Multicultural Integrative Family Therapy and consultation. He also provides extensive training and consultation on these topics to agencies and other professionals.

Erica Torres, PsyD
Family Systems Theory & Applications to Diverse Populations
Clinical Interviewing Skills

Thomas L. B. Tracy, PsyD
B.A Psychology, University of California Santa Barbara, 2001
M.A. Sport Psychology, John F. Kennedy University, 2006
PsyD, John F. Kennedy University, 2008
Dissertation Proposal sequence

The LEAP program works with at-risk high school student athletes. Dr. Tracy supervises and supports sport psychology student interns working with sporting teams in the LEAP high school setting. Dr. Tracy teaches Psychology of Group Interpersonal Communication in the Sport Psychology MA Program, and is also the Coordinator of the Summer Challenge Camp. In addition, Dr. Tracy also teaches the Clinical Dissertation Proposal Sequence for the Doctor of Psychology Program. Dr. Tracy's experience providing psychological services has included performing neuropsychological and psychodiagnostic assessments with children and adults, providing individual and group psychotherapy and psychological assessment to undergraduate students, performing play therapy with children, training and observation in Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), conducting applied behavior analysis with developmentally disabled individuals and their families, and facilitating Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) groups with adults in residential substance abuse treatment. At the University of California Santa Barbara, Dr. Tracy participated in health psychology, social psychology, and autism research, and focused primarily on the psychophysiology of anxiety in various social and motivated performance situations. Dr. Tracy's dissertation research at John F. Kennedy University focused on the experience of an exercise withdrawal syndrome among high-frequency exercisers. Tom may be contacted at 924-969-3432 or by email at ttracy@jfku.edu.

Jimmie Turner, PhD
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of California, Berkeley
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Integrated Professional Seminar - II
Psychology of Addiction

Kyle van Gaasbeek, PsyD
Assessment