Amber Ehrlich, Ph.D., L.P., received a degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Dakota in 2008. She provides therapy, assessment, and consultation service to children and adolescents through the Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic (CAPS), Burn Unit, Pediatric Unit, and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She also provides child consultation supervision to psychology trainees. Clinical interests include child/adolescent mental health, family therapy/parent-management training, and adjustment following traumatic events.

Helena Mackenzie, Ph.D., L.P., received her degree in clinical psychology from Kent State University in 2001.  She provides assessment and therapy services in both the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service (CAPS) and the Adult Therapy Clinic.  She is part of the Hennepin Women’s Mental Health Program and has a special interest in women’s mental health, parenting, and the effects of maternal mental health on children.  Dr. Mackenzie provides consultation services to pediatric and adult inpatient medical units and psychological testing on adult inpatient psychiatric units.  She supervises interns and fellows in all of the above areas.  Additional clinical and research interests include anxiety disorders, trauma, domestic violence, and adolescent mental health.

Monica Mandell, Ph.D., L.P., received her degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1987. She is the Director of the Psychology Training Program. Other training responsibilities include teaching of cognitive behavioral therapies and supervision of psychology and psychiatry trainees. She provides clinical services to adult psychiatric inpatients and outpatients, as well as psychological consultation to the HCMC Burn Center, Oncology, and other medical services. She is part of the Hennepin Women's Mental Health Program. Specific areas of clinical interest include health psychology, post-traumatic stress disorder, and women's mental health. Her research interests include psychosocial adjustment to physical trauma and the impact of psychiatric disorders during and after pregnancy. She is a member of the HCMC Institutional Review Board.

Paul S. Marshall, Ph.D., L.P., received his degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1990 and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Neuropsychology Laboratory at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in 1992. He serves as the clinical neuropsychologist for the Department of Psychiatry, providing comprehensive psychological assessment of psychiatric inpatients and outpatients. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology and the American Board of Professional Psychology. Research interests include the effects of immune system dysregulation on cognitive functions and mood, the use of attention testing in differential diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, and research on the diagnosis of adult ADHD.

Patrick McMahon, Ph.D., L.P., received his degree from the Clinical Psychology program at Temple University in 2006. He is one of the psychologists at Hennepin Faculty Associates who participates in the training program at HCMC, co-leads the peer consultation group for interns and fellows with Dr. Szporn and supervises trainees in outpatient psychotherapy. His clinical interests lie primarily in mindfulness and third-wave behavioral approaches as applied to individual, couples, and group therapy settings.

Sarah Peden, Ph.D., L.P., received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Auburn University in 2010.  She completed internship and fellowship training at HCMC.  She provides psychotherapy and assessment services in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service (CAPS), consults to the pediatric medical unit, and provides therapy in Adult Therapy Clinic.   She has been involved with both the Pediatric Brain Injury Team and the Hennepin Women’s Mental Health Program.  Her clinical interests include comprehensive psychological evaluations, child/adolescent mental health, trauma, and coordination of care with other professional for high-risk populations.

Danielle Potokar, Ph.D., received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Bowling Green State University in 2008. She also has a Masters Degree in Behavioral Neuroscience from BGSU. She provides therapy, assessment, and consultation services to adults through the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Clinic, Huntington's Disease Clinic, and Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. She also leads a process-oriented psychotherapy group in the TBI Clinic. She consults to medical units throughout the hospital and provides supervision for trainees two days per week in Adult Assessment Clinic. Her theoretical orientation is integrative, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal process therapy, and psychodynamic therapy. Clinical interests include diagnostic assessment (especially in complex cases), psychological recovery, and serious and persistent mental illness.

Maria Luisa Ramirez, Ph.D., LP., received her doctoral degree in child development and clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1997. She completed an internship at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA and fellowships at Hamm Clinic and Hennepin County Medical Center. She provides psychotherapy and assessment services in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service (CAPS) and consults to the pediatric medical unit. She supervises interns and fellows in CAPS. She provides psychotherapy services in the Adult Therapy Clinic. Her clinical interests include parent-child attachment, family therapy, hypnosis, mindfulness practice, and resilience in high-risk populations.

Adeya Richmond, Ph.D., received her degree in Psychology from Northern Illinois University in 2010. She provides therapy and consultation services to adults through the Conservative Management Center in the Medicine Clinic as well as therapy services to adults in the Adult Therapy Clinic (including the Hennepin Women's Mental Health Program). She also provides psychological consultation to adult inpatients throughout the hospital. In these roles, she supervises psychology interns and postdoctoral fellows. Her theoretical orientation is integrative, including cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal process. Clinical interests include working with survivors of interpersonal trauma and mood symptoms in racially and ethnically diverse patients. Research interests include parenting and women’s mental health and cross-cultural psychology throughout the lifespan.

Andrea Szporn, Ph.D., L.P., received her degree in Clinical Psychology from New York University in 2001. She provides assessment and psychotherapy services in the Adult Therapy Clinic (including the Hennepin Women's Mental Health Program). She supervises interns and fellows on adult therapy and assessment. In addition, she provides psychological consultation to adult inpatients throughout the hospital. She is also the psychologist consultant to the Bariatric Weight Loss Surgery Program at the hospital. Research and clinical interests include the development of empathy, the effects of maternal depression on children, women's mental health issues, psychodynamic case formulation, and the use of brain-imaging techniques to better understand psychiatric disorders.

David E. Tupper, Ph.D., L.P., received his degree in Neuropsychology from the University of Victoria.  He is the Director of the Neuropsychology Section at HCMC, which provides neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation services to children and adults with neurological or neurodevelopmental dysfunction. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, a charter member of the Society for Cognitive Rehabilitation, and a clinical neuropsychologist, board-certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He has written and edited a variety of books and chapters, and has published articles in neuropsychology and rehabilitation psychology. He reviews for a variety of journals and has served on several local and national committees and boards.  His clinical interests include children and adults with head injuries and executive impairment from frontal lobe lesions. Research interests include cross-cultural approaches to neuropsychological assessment, cognitive consequences of medical disorders, and subtle neuropsychological deficiencies in children with suspected learning and other neurocognitive disorders.

Amelia (Mia) Versland, Ph.D, L.P., received her degree in clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University in 2006. Clinical activities at HCMC include individual and group psychotherapy services to adults in the Adult Therapy Clinic. She also works as the inpatient therapeutic programming consultant/coordinator for inpatient psychiatry. In this role, she implements and manages empirically based treatment programming, develops practice guidelines, provides supervision/consultation to inpatient staff, monitors quality assurance/outcome measures, and facilitates trainings for staff on the use of empirically based treatments. Dr. Versland previously has served as a primary supervision to psychology interns and postdoctoral fellows. Her theoretical orientation is integrative, including motivational interviewing (MINT member), cognitive behavioral, and interpersonal process therapies. Clinical interests include co-occurring disorders. Program development and research interests include implementation of empirically based treatments.