Marianne Celano, PhD, ABPP, professor and eminent psychologist, is past president of the Society for Couple and Family Psychology (Division 43) and American Board of Couple and Family Psychology. She is the Director of the Emory Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Program and currently directs family therapy training for the child psychiatry residency. Board certified in couple and family psychology, Celano is also certified as a provider and Level I trainer for PCIT, and as a provider of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT). She has authored journal articles, book chapters and books on family psychology training, family interventions for child traumatic stress and pediatric asthma and systemic practice for children with emotional and behavioral disorders.
Robert O. Cotes, MD, professor and distinguished physician, is a nationally recognized expert in psychotic disorders and clozapine. He is the founder and co-director of the Clinical and Research Program for Psychosis at Grady Health System, where he developed multiple programs, including Project ARROW, a state-funded coordinated specialty care clinic for early and prodromal psychosis, and PSTAR, a clozapine clinic. From 2020 to 2024, he served as physician expert for the Clinical Support System for Serious Mental Illness (SMI Adviser), co-directing centers of excellence in clozapine and long-acting injectable antipsychotics. His research and consultative work focus on treatment-resistant schizophrenia, early intervention, implementing psychosocial interventions and improving outcomes for youth and young adults with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of Community Mental Health Journal.
Erin Elliott, PhD, ABPP, deputy chief at Atlanta VA Health Care System, is an assistant professor and senior psychologist who is board certified in clinical psychology. Elliott served as an expert and national VA trainer in motivational interviewing/motivational enhancement therapy, and was a member of Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers for many years. She is also VA certified in Social Skills Training and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Depression. Elliott’s primary professional interests include severe and persistent mental illness, working with disruptive or difficult to engage patients, trainee/staff supervision and development and suicide prevention.
Robert Elliott, MD, assistant professor and senior physician, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and Director of Psychiatry Services at Emory University Student Health Services. He is a past president of the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society. He serves on the Task Force for College Mental Health of the National Network of Depression Centers, Emory University Mental Health Leadership Council and Care Team and Medical Leave Review Committee for Emory University Campus Life. He participates on the Executive Committee at Emory University Student Health Services, where he created and leads the Staff Resiliency Program. He has expertise in college mental health, presented on measurement-based care at student health centers and collaborative models of care for students and provides psychiatric evaluation and treatment to undergraduate, graduate and professional Emory students. He provides outpatient psychiatry treatment with medication and psychodynamic psychotherapy at The Emory Clinic and supervises psychiatry residents through the Outpatient Psychotherapy Training Program and at Student Health Services. He is co-chair of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute.
Eugene W. Farber, PhD, ABPP, professor and eminent psychologist, has conducted psychotherapy teaching and supervision for nearly 35 years. His clinical work draws from assimilative integrative, relational psychodynamic and humanistic-existential psychotherapy theories and methods, along with culturally responsive and intersectionality-informed clinical formulation and intervention approaches implemented with a range of clinical populations. He also has extensive experience working with people living with HIV disease and co-occurring medical conditions. Board certified in clinical psychology, Farber also serves as director of training for the Emory University School of Medicine Internship in Health Service Psychology. He has authored journal articles and book chapters on psychotherapy practice and supervision and served as a guest co-editor of a special scholarly journal section on the topic of psychotherapy supervision.
Andrew C. Furman, MD, professor and eminent physician, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and conducted psychotherapy teaching and supervision for over 25 years, with an emphasis on psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy, and the combination of psychotherapy-psychopharmacology. Furman serves as director of Psychotherapy-Psychopharmacology Clinic at Emory. He has held numerous teaching positions in the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and American Psychoanalytic Association, including the Teachers’ Academy, APsaA Fellowship and Medical Student Education Committees, and is associate editor of the Psychiatrist-in-Practice Examination of the American College of Psychiatrists. Furman won the Edith Sabshin Award for Excellence in Teaching by the American Psychoanalytic Association and was the Emory University School of Medicine’s Distinguished Teaching Scholar.
Toby D. Goldsmith, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist and distinguished physician who has devoted her career to the treatment of women with psychiatric illness. While the majority of her time has been spent addressing the psychiatric needs of women who are pregnant and postpartum, she believes women’s unique needs ought to be addressed from menarche and beyond menopause. Goldsmith has been the director of the Emory Women’s Mental Health Clinic since 2013, where she, her colleagues and students treat patients from the greater Atlanta area. To meet the needs of parenting individuals outside of Atlanta, and with the support of the Georgia Department of Public Health, Goldsmith and others formed a perinatal mental health access program to improve the capacity of clinicians treating this vulnerable population. This program, PEACE for Moms, exemplifies Goldsmith’s commitment to improving maternal mental health through the entire state.
Rachel Hershenberg, PhD, ABPP, is an associate professor and senior psychologist. She is board certified in behavioral and cognitive therapy with expertise in treating individuals with mood and anxiety disorders. She treats patients across phases of development, from emerging adulthood to geriatrics. She has specialty training in working with chronic and refractory patients, for whom comorbidities are the norm rather than the exception, and accordingly, collaborates closely with psychiatry in the care of patients with treatment resistant depression. She is also passionate about delivering CBT-based skills groups in a telemedicine format.
Kallio Hunnicutt-Ferguson, PhD, ABPP, is an assistant professor and senior psychologist who serves as the director of practicum training for the Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at EP12, as well as director of education for the OCD IOP/CARES training program. She is board certified in behavioral and cognitive psychology and specializes in providing evidence-based psychotherapy for anxiety and trauma and stress-related disorders, with a particular focus on women's health and substance use disorders. She is a certified trainer for the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders, facilitates a DBT skills group at Emory and is a team lead in the OCD intensive program. She is co-chair of the psychiatry women's faculty subcommittee and works with Claire Cole's Center for Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development on prevention of prenatal exposures and their impact on the developing child.
Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP, professor and eminent psychologist, is past president of the American Psychological Association’s Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (Division 29) and Society for Couple and Family Psychology (Division 43). She is also the former editor of the Journal of Family Psychology. In 2019, Kaslow co-edited Essential psychotherapies (4th edition) and previously served as a guest co-editor of a special scholarly journal section on the topic of psychotherapy supervision. She has conducted multiple randomized controlled trials of culturally-grounded interventions for suicidal African Americans. Board certified in clinical psychology, couple and family psychology, clinical child and adolescent psychology and serious mental illness, Kaslow has expertise in integrative psychotherapy with adolescents and adults, couples/family therapy, culturally responsive interventions and psychotherapy supervision.
Steven T. Levy, MD, is a professor and training and supervising psychoanalyst. He is the former interim chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, former director of the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and previous editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author/editor of Principles of interpretation: Mastering clear and concise interventions in psychotherapy, The therapeutic alliance and Schizophrenia: Treatment of acute psychotic episodes. He has expertise in psychodynamic psychiatry, especially in relation to psychoanalysis, its theories, clinical applications and scholarly literature. A senior teacher and supervisor, he is happy to consult to junior faculty. An experienced editor, he also can help faculty in manuscript preparation related to psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Meghna Patel, PhD, ABPP, a senior psychologist who is board certified in clinical psychology, is deputy chief of the mental health service line at the Atlanta VA Healthcare System who is board certified in clinical psychology. She works within the Trauma Recovery Program and serves as the clinical director of the military sexual trauma/dialectical behavior therapy team. Patel has expertise in providing and training clinicians in evidence-based treatments for PTSD. She is a VA certified provider for prolonged exposure and cognitive processing therapy and serves as a VA trainer for cognitive processing therapy. At the Atlanta VA, she helped develop the DBT program and has expanded the program to serve patients at various locations. She has provided national DBT trainings to develop DBT programming in VA systems across the country, provides weekly consultation to newly formed DBT teams and supervises trainees in providing the full DBT model.
Sheila AM Rauch, PhD, ABPP, is the Mark and Barbara Klein Distinguished Professor, deputy director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and director of mental health research and program evaluation at the Atlanta VA Healthcare System. Rauch has conducted research and provide PTSD and anxiety disorders treatment for over 20 years with numerous publications. Her research focuses on the biological and psychological mechanisms involved in the development and treatment of PTSD and improving access to effective interventions. She has trained providers in PTSD treatment since 2000. Rauch has been involved in modifying and adapting proven psychotherapeutic interventions for anxiety disorders for various populations and settings, including primary care. She is an author of several treatment manuals in PTSD and anxiety disorders treatment. She is board certified in cognitive and behavioral psychology, fellow of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy and member of the board of directors and scientific council of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She is comfortable consulting on cognitive behavioral therapy for adults with anxiety disorders, depression and PTSD and related comorbidities.
Barbara O. Rothbaum, PhD, ABPP, is executive director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program. She is a professor and associate vice chair of clinical research and director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program and holds the Paul A. Janssen Chair in Neuropsychopharmcology. Rothbaum specializes in research on the treatment of anxiety disorders, particularly PTSD. Rothbaum has been studying PTSD treatments since 1986 and developed, tested and disseminated some of the most innovative and effective treatments available for PTSD. She is an inventor of virtual reality exposure therapy. She was a pioneer in applying it in the treatment of PTSD in combat veterans. She has authored over 400 scientific papers and chapters, published 11 books on the treatment of PTSD, edited four others on anxiety and received board certification in cognitive and behavioral psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. She is comfortable consulting on cognitive behavioral therapy in adults with anxiety and/or depression, as well as habits such as trichotillomania. She has published treatment manuals on several disorders and currently studying MDMA combined with evidence based treatments for PTSD.
Keith Wood, PhD, ABPP, associate professor and eminent psychologist, has an over 40-year history of working with individuals complicated by psychotic functioning and socio-environmental challenges. This ongoing work involves providing direct services; training and supervising students, trainees and clinical service providers; developing and implementing specialized interventions and training and service programs and collaboratively working with interdisciplinary professionals and community partners and programs. His teaching and practice settings have ranged from hospital psychiatric emergency room, inpatient units and affiliative behavioral health clinics; community mental health and health centers, crisis stabilization units, jail and criminal justice programs, community service and outreach programs and neighborhood intervention services; schools, academic and governmental institutions and planning and advocacy organizations. Wood has authored journal articles and book chapters on setting-based diagnosing and treating individuals with serious behavioral disorders.
Jennifer Wootten, MD, is an assistant professor and eminent physician in the department. She is the medical director of Grady Behavioral Health Outpatient Services. Her clinical experience with chronic mental illness is focused on patient engagement, goal setting and improving function. She started the patient advisory board and has worked to involve the perspectives of patients in staff and resident orientations, policy decisions and clinic workflows. Wootten is also a member of the Grady ethics committee. She also has an interest and expertise in assessment of cultural issues in psychiatry especially around the use of interpreters.
Liza Zwiebach, PhD, ABPP, is an assistant professor and senior psychologist who serves as clinical director of Emory Healthcare Veterans Program. Board certified in behavioral and cognitive psychology, Zwiebach has expertise in providing and training clinicians in evidence-based treatments for PTSD. With Emory colleagues, she developed an innovative nationwide program to disseminate prolonged exposure therapy among community-based clinicians. Zwiebach also takes an active role in psychotherapy training within the department and has taught a core seminar in cognitive behavioral therapy for residents since 2015.