Pam Atkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Student Development
Director, Psychological Counseling Center

Dr. Atkins received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in Counseling Psychology. She is currently the Associate Dean for Student Development and has been the Director of the Psychological Counseling Center since 1983. Her administrative interests involve student development programming, the prevention of suicide and sexual assault, and transitional issues of first-year college students. She is currently working with a MA Intern in the area of coping with stress and panic. Dr. Atkins co-authored a reader for first-year transition entitled Connections (2001) and has implemented a suicide prevention program on the New Paltz campus. Additionally Dr. Atkins works directly with the Residence Hall staff to apply college student development within the residential community. Dr. Atkins teaches the MA psychology graduate course, which serves as the foundation for the Psychology Departments MA Concentration in Counseling program. Her professional membership includes the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors.

Gweneth M. Lloyd, D.S.W.
Associate Director, Psychological Counseling Center

Dr. Lloyd received her doctoral degree in Social Welfare from the Graduate University Center, Hunter College School of Social Work. She specializes in cross-cultural and alcohol/substance abuse counseling. She is founder and director of the Peer Mentorship Program of the Scholar's Mentorship Program, which is a retention enhancement program targeting students of color. Dr. Lloyd has presented her mentoring model nationally with acclaim. Dr. Lloyd also works closely with the Office of International Students by providing outreach services to enhance International students' assimilation and acculturation to New Paltz. Dr. Lloyd teaches the undergraduate course, Counseling Underrepresented Students and a graduate course, Psychology Fieldwork. She is primarily responsible for developing strategies to increase utilization of the Counseling Center Services to student groups that are less likely to seek psychological services.

Dee DePorto, Ph.D.
Psychologist

Dr. DePorto received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University. She is also an alumna of the Master’s Program in Counseling Psychology here at SUNY New Paltz and joins the professional staff with over 18 years of experience working with victims of domestic violence/relationship abuse, sexual assault, and stalking. Her therapeutic interventions are grounded in the belief that individuals heal, change, and grow through clinical connections in which they feel understood, empowered, and safe enough to challenge their present existence and, ultimately, reach their fullest potential. Her work centers on safety, wholeness, and personal fulfillment. She has a particular passion for campus programming on trauma and abuse as well as outreach to queer student communities. Her workshops are designed to shift collective cultures of silence and invisibility – facilitating productive and respectful dialogue and creating new levels of awareness and sensitivity. Dr. DePorto’s research interests include postseparation trauma interventions with relationship abuse survivors, the link between stalking and domestic violence, and relationship abuse in the queer community.

Dr. Mark Balaban, Ph.D.
Psychologist

Dr. Balaban received his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from George Mason University. He completed his predoctoral internship at the University of Rochester Counseling Center and has worked at several university counseling centers. His clinical interests include depression, anxiety, eating disorders and body image and diversity issues. Dr. Balaban is also interested in group psychotherapy and psychotherapy training/supervision. Dr. Balaban teaches the graduate psychology course in Psychological Assessment and is a member of the American Psychological Association and the New York State College Health Association.

Dr. Carlos Valle, M.D.
Consulting Psychiatrist

Dr. Valle is a consulting psychiatrist working only with students who are in short term therapy at the PCC and referred to him by the PCC staff. Dr. Valle received his medical degree from the University of Peru Cayetano Heredia and is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with a specialty in Psychiatry. Dr. Valle's internship and residency was with Monteifore Medical Center, Bronx Municipal Hospital with a Fellowship in Child Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. Dr. Valle is currently affiliated with the Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, NY.

Anna Bartlett
Office Secretary, Psychological Counseling Center

Anna Bartlett has been working for the State University of New York system since 1980. She began her employment at the State University of New York at Albany, Student Activities Office in 1980 where she worked until 1986. In 1986 she relocated to New Paltz, New York and began working for the Office of Admissions at SUNY New Paltz. After a short stead working in the Admissions Office she began working for the Office of the President where she remained for nearly 13 years until she transferred to the Psychological Counseling Center. She has devoted more than 20 years of her adult life to serving the SUNY University system's students, faculty and staff with over half of those years providing service under the Student Affairs Division.

Nichole McGovern
OASIS/HAVEN Coordinator

Nicole "Gigi" Giordano
OASIS/HAVEN Assistant Coordinator