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counseling and family sciences, faculty

November 18, 2025

Meet Dr. Kristen Watkins, a DMFT alumna and grief and play therapy specialist who joins the Counseling and Family Scienc

social work, students

November 10, 2025

An MSW student reflects on NASW Lobby Days at the California Capitol—and how advocacy at the systems level deepened her

counseling and family sciences

November 4, 2025

All four of LLU's MFT programs hold COAMFTE accreditation. Learn what that means for students, program quality, and the

child life, collaboration, counseling and family sciences

October 21, 2025

Child Life students join medicine, nursing, and religion in LLU's end-of-life simulation—practicing whole person care, g

dean's message, global mental health, mental health

October 10, 2025

SBH Dean Dr. Bev Buckles reflects on World Mental Health Day 2025 and the importance of access, compassion, and communit

psychology, faculty

October 6, 2025

LLU Clinical Psychology PhD alumna Dr. Brianna Hardt returns to the Department of Psychology as a clinical faculty membe

counseling and family sciences, faculty, alumni

September 24, 2025

SBH faculty member Dr. Elizabeth James founded ROOTS, a prenatal support group at LLUCH that addresses prenatal depressi

child life, counseling and family sciences

September 4, 2025

After more than 40 years serving children and families at LLUCH, Dorothy Clark Brooks reflects on a career devoted to gr

counseling and family sciences, students, global mental health

August 21, 2025

SBH students and faculty traveled to Nairobi for AAMFT's inaugural Global Systemic Therapy Summit—and returned with deep

Trauma Team, global mental health

July 9, 2025

LLU's International Behavioral Health Trauma Team traveled to Reykjavík to train church leaders in the Community Resilie