Jenni Gerlach-Thome, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Supports Lyra Health’s Lyra Care Therapy (LCT) program, which combines live therapy sessions with EBP digital tools and between session engagement, by providing clinical quality and administrative supervision to licensed providers as well as therapy to clients. This includes reviewing clinical cases and providing feedback as well as supporting mental health providers in their case conceptualization and treatment planning. Assists with key quality improvement initiatives including ongoing clinical consultations, provider training and quality assurance reviews, and provides therapy within the LCT program.

• Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Illinois State University Student Counseling Services (SCS)• Clinical: Individual, couples, and group therapy as a generalist practitioner, with a subspecialty in eating disorders and behaviors; health, exercise, and sport psychology; and, working with first-generation college students; coordinate Eating Disorders Services; provide crisis intervention and consultation; conduct intake/assessments of new clients; serve as administrative member of multidisciplinary ISU Eating Disorders Network; Clinical Services Team• Outreach & Liaison: Body Project Faculty Member; Outreach Coordinator; provide trainings and outreach to the campus and community on mental health issues and diversity issues; Eating Disorder/Body Image Outreach Coordinator; liaison and consultant within the campus community including Campus Recreation, Athletics, TRiO,and Housing; Multicultural and Diversity Outreach Team; recipient of Gamsky-Lamb Award and STAR awards for innovative outreach programming and commitment to diversity• Training: Supervise doctoral interns and masters externs, graduate assistants, and undergraduate interns; provide training for SCS and ISU faculty and staff on mental health related topics; serve on Training Committee• ISU and the Division of Student Affairs committee involvement: Professional Development Committee, Women's Mentoring Network, "On Common Grounds" Diversity Discussion Facilitator; Eating Disorders Network; Body Acceptance Coalition; Diversity Committee; chair/member of university search committees

• Instructor, Group Counseling - didactic and experiential master's level course on group counseling process and facilitation• Instructor, Master's Internship - instruction and departmental supervision to master's level graduate students completing their final internship

• Doctoral Intern (2003) and Clinical Counselor (2004-2006) at University of Illinois Counseling Center• Clinical Work: brief and longer-term counseling (individual, couples, and group) to diverse student population; generalist with sub-specialty in disordered eating and test anxiety/EMDR; provided crisis, trauma, and emergency response; conducted initial, eating disorder, and test anxiety assessments• Outreach: Provide trainings and outreach related to body image concerns, exercise, eating pathology to UIUC community, intercollegiate athletics, and at national conferences; developed new programmatic area of outreach for first generation college students; provide liaison and consultation within the campus community; member of Outreach and Consultation Services Committee• Training: Supervised pre-doctoral interns, practicum students, and undergraduate interns; mentored undergraduate counseling center paraprofessionals; coordinated Assessment Seminar and Intern Case Conference• University of Illinois committee membership: Ethics Committee; Intern Training Committee; Diversity Audit Committee; Assessment & Evaluation Committee; served on planning committees for several national conferences

• Instructor, Introduction to Counseling and Psychotherapy - taught on-campus and on-line• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Adult Learning and Development - taught on-campus and on-line • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Psychology of Learning for Teachers• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Early Adolescent Development• Recognized on the "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked Excellent/Outstanding by their Students (Top 5%/10% of Teachers at the University of Illinois)• Earned Graduate Teacher Certification and Advanced Graduate Teacher Certification

Ph.D., Counseling Psychology

M.A., Counseling Psychology

B.A., Psychology