Department of Counseling and Family Sciences

Chair, Department of Counseling and Family Sciences
Associate Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Areas: recovery-oriented care; clinical supervision; adolescent and transitional-aged youth development; treating severe mental illness
Email woloo@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 42099

Associate Chair, Department of Counseling and Family Sciences
Assistant Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Director, Child Life Specialist MS Program
Areas: child development; stress and coping in the hospital environment; grief and loss; program development
Email maminyard@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 47072

Assistant Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences

Areas: program evaluation research; program design and development; community mental health; clinical work with sexual and gender minority populations; prevention and early intervention programs; professional mentoring; self-of-the-therapist

Email hbeeson@llu.edu

Assistant Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Areas: meta-analysis; structural equation modeling; qualitative research; Bowen family systems; family violence; military families
Email bcafferky@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 47002

Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Areas: health; chronic illnesses; translational research; family systems; research methodologies; statistics; multivariate analysis
Email bdistelberg@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 47019

Associate Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Director, Systems, Families, and Couples PhD Program
Areas: couples and chronic illness; medical family therapy/integrated behavioral health; religion and family functioning; global mental health; low dose interventions for acute and low resource settings
Email zlister@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 47009

Assistant Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Director of Clinical Training, MFT Programs
Areas: couples therapy; at-risk youth; anger management; crisis intervention and trauma; clinical training and supervision; school-based programs; mandated clients; program development
Email llopezbradley@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 47010

Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Director, Marital and Family Therapy MS Program
Areas: treatment of couples; legal and ethical issues; family theory; group therapy
Email mmoline@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 47004

Assistant Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Director, Doctor of Marital and Family Therapy (DMFT) Program
Areas: at-risk youth; group homes for at-risk youth; program development; staff development and trainings (group home, managed care, community mental health); community mental health; professional mentoring; narrative therapy; diversity; self-of-therapist
Email nribadu@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 47005

Assistant Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Director of Clinical Training, Child Life Specialist MS Program
Areas: child development; stress and coping in the hospital environment; grief and loss; clinical training and supervision; promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in child life
Email asaavedra@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 47225

Assistant Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Director, LLU Counseling and Family Sciences Clinic
Director, Drug and Alcohol Counseling Certificate
Interim Director, Counseling MS Program and School Counseling Certificate
Areas: substance use treatment and recovery; mindfulness-based relapse prevention; clinical supervision
Email rrwalker@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 47012

Professor, Counseling and Family Sciences
Areas: medical family therapy; adult and pediatric illness; palliative and hospice care; grief; qualitative research; narrative therapy; spirituality and meaning-making; women's professional development in academia
Email jwilliamsreade@llu.edu
Phone 909-558-4547, ext. 47025