Faculty

Julie Cushman is currently a clinical director at Home of New Vision. She also has a private practice doing consulting and program evaluation for community services and agencies.

Sean de Four, MSW'01, focuses on administration and management of human services for youth, families and vulnerable populations. De Four currently serves as the Vice President of Child and Family Services for Michigan's fourth largest non-profit human service agency, Lutheran Social Services of Michigan...

Bonnie Dockham, MSW '02 is a licensed medical social worker in out-patient, inpatient and community settings. Dockham is the founding program director of the Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor and currently the executive director. Her work focuses on community-academic partnerships and implementing...

Katie Doyle, MSW '97, MBA '13 is the executive director of Ozone House Youth and Family Services in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. Katie began her career working in the child welfare system in Chicago. She studied Interpersonal Practice at U-M SSW where she was a Civitas Fellow. After providing individual...

Leslie Dubin, MSW'97, focuses on individual and family practice working with older adults. Special interests include assisting persons with navigating the health care system and maximizing independence and dignity throughout the aging process. Dubin is currently a part of the Geriatric Inpatient...

Michelle Duprey is currently the Integrated Health Care Director at Starfish Family Services. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work and has over 20 years experience in child and family therapy, management, organizational design and clinical and corporate training. She...

Abigail Eiler, MSW ' 06, is a clinical social worker in the Department of Family Medicine’s Ambulatory Care Unit at the University of Michigan Health System and a field instructor for MSW interns from University of Michigan School of Social Work. She also works as a medical social worker for United...

Rebecca Espitia, MSW '10, Espitia specializes in early childhood education with an emphasis in evaluating for developmental delays, and helping to implement interventions for children. She also specializes in infant mental health work and childhood disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder. Espitia...

Janice Firn, PhD, MSW ' 04, is a clinical ethicist with the Program for Clinical Ethics, a collaborative effort between the Center for Bioethics in Social Sciences and Medicine (CBSSM) and the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS). As a clinical ethicist she responds to ethics consultation requests...

Emily Fitzgerald, MSW '06, focuses her work on individual and group practice with children and adolescents, primarily within the school setting.  As a school social worker and clinical supervisor, she has provided therapeutic services to support youth and families with a wide array of mental health...

Sallie Foley, LMSW, is an AASECT certified sex therapist, sex educator, and sex therapy supervisor. She is the former director of the Center for Sexual Health at University of Michigan Health Systems and has a private practice in psychotherapy and consultation in Ann Arbor. She is the director of the...

Mariko Foulk is a clinical social worker who has practiced in psychiatric and geriatric health care settings for more than 30 years. Foulk spent more than 20 years of her social work career at the University of Michigan Turner Geriatric Clinic. Her practice includes individual and group psychotherapy...

Joseph A. Galura is an advisor/lecturer for the undergraduate minor in Community Action and Social Change. He also is a lecturer in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and has developed, implemented and taught service-learning courses in Sociology (Project Community), Education (LUCY: The...

Tammie B. Glenn is currently a consultant with Wayne State University School of Medicine MIFAST initative, a cooperative project with the State of Michigan office of Community Mental Health, and Project CARE, a cooperative project with Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health.

Carolyn Grawi, MSW '91 currently serves as the executive director and CEO at the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she helps people amplify their voices, and connect with opportunities and resources, in order to transform lives and the systems in which we live. She...

Liz Haas, LMSW, is a Psychiatric Social Worker at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital in the Substance Abuse and Primary Care Substance Abuse Clinics where she practices group and individual therapy focusing on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Sex Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Motivational...

JoAnn Heap, LMSW, has extensive training in DBT, including over 220 credited hours with Linehan & her B-tech group. She has clinical as well as supervisory experience in using the model in diverse practice settings. She was the senior clinical social worker on the personality disorders team at...

Jennifer Heckendorn, MSW’07 is a geriatric social worker who specializes in consultation and therapy for aging individuals, caregivers and family members through her private practice, Heckendorn Consultation and Therapy, PLLC. Heckendorn is also experienced in assisting families with issues related...

Justin Hodge, MSW ’13, focuses on the promotion of social justice through the application of social work practice and theory to policy and politics. Hodge holds an appointment in the Department of Social Work as a clinical social worker providing outpatient therapy to children and adolescents. He...

Mina Hong, MSW '09, is a senior policy associate at Michigan's Children, an organization focused on ensuring that public policies are made in the best interest of children from cradle to career. Hong's role at Michigan's Children is to provide a variety of assistance to communities to build their capacity...