• EKU Counseling Center
  • 521 Lancaster Avenue
  • SSB 371, CPO 52
  • Richmond, KY 40475
  • Phone: 859-622-1303
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  • FALL & SPRING OFFICE HOURS:
  • Monday - Thursday
  • 8am - 5pm
  • Friday
  • 8am - 4:30pm
  •    Meet Our Staff

Meet Our Staff

Tara Hart, Ph.D. (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Provisionally Licensed Psychologist.  Therapeutic  approach includes an integration of humanistic, interpersonal, and cognitive counseling theories. Professional interests include trauma recovery, group therapy, couples therapy, relational issues, disordered eating patterns, body image, women’s issues, and exploring concerns such as religious/spiritual identity and sexual identity development. 

Kristie LeClair Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. (The University of Texas at Austin)
Licensed Psychologist. Integration of humanistic and interpersonal theory with experiential and cognitive interventions. Professional interests include disordered eating attitudes, especially binge/compulsive eating; grief and loss; early childhood trauma; family of origin and relationship issues. I focus on strengths and empowerment of individuals to create the lives they want to live.

B. Thomas Longwell, Psy.D. (Pacific University)
Licensed Psychologist. Provides cognitive and behavioral, empirically supported interventions that focus on creating positive therapeutic gains in current functioning. Professional interests include anxiety, depression, stress management, psychological assessment and research, success in college, and individual therapy.

Charles H. Morgan, Jr. Ph.D. (University of Florida)
Licensed Psychologist. Therapeutic orientation includes elements of psychodynamic, humanistic, interpersonal, and cognitive elements with a strong interest in hypnosis and other experiential techniques. Professional interests include individual psychotherapy, survivorship of trauma, stress management, personality disorders, and legal and ethical issues in the practice of psychology.

Donald E. Ralph, Ph.D. (The Catholic University of America)
Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Ralph is a clinical professor on faculty at the University of Kentucky Department of Psychiatry and a part-time staff member at the EKU Counseling Center. Professional interests include individual therapy, anxiety, and depression.

Michalle S. Rice, M.S. (Eastern Kentucky University)
Licensed Psychological Practitioner. Integration of cognitive-behavioral therapy and interpersonal theories of counseling. Professional interests include grief counseling, career counseling, stress management, and college student success.

Kevin Stanley, Ph.D. (University of Florida)
Licensed Psychologist. Eclectic use of different therapeutic theories and techniques, including experiential, existential, interpersonal, cognitive, psychodynamic, and developmental approaches. Professional interests include men’s issues, identity concerns, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and couples counseling.

Missy Taylor, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky)
Licensed Psychologist. Integration of cognitive therapy, mindfulness, interpersonal theory, and motivational interviewing. Professional interests include coordination of substance abuse services, recovery from childhood and adult trauma, individual and group counseling, and mindfulness-based interventions.

Jen Colvin Walker, Ed.D (East Texas State University)
Director, Licensed Psychologist. Professional interests include career counseling, individual counseling, stress management, college student success, referral, and test anxiety.