Issues and Innovations in Clinical Practice - Faculty

David Capuzzi, PhD, NCC, LPC is a graduate of Florida State University and licensed as a counselor in Oregon. He is certified by the National Board of Certified Counselors as an NCC. Currently, he is a senior faculty associate in the Department of Counseling and Human Services at Johns Hopkins University. He is professor emeritus at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon where he served as a counselor educator for 26 years. From 2004-2007, he served as Scholar in Residence at Johns Hopkins University. He is past president of the American Counseling Association (ACA), which spans 51 countries. His publications include Youth at Risk, Suicide across the Life Span, Suicide Prevention in the Schools, Foundations of Addictions Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions, Introduction to the Counseling Profession, Career Counseling Foundations, Perspectives, and Applications, and Introduction to Group Work. A frequent keynoter and workshop presenter at professional conferences and institutes, Dr. Capuzzi has also consulted with a variety of school districts and community agencies interested in initiating prevention and intervention strategies for adolescents at risk for suicide. He has facilitated the development of suicide prevention, crisis management, and postvention programs in communities throughout the United States; provides training on the topics of youth at risk, grief and loss, group work and other topics; and serves as an invited adjunct faculty member at other universities as time permits. He is the first recipient of ACA's Kitty Cole Human Rights Award and also a recipient of Leona Tyler Award in Oregon. He was inducted as an ACA Fellow in 2008.

Gregory A. Crosby, MA, LPC, CGP, is a clinical group coordinator for Kaiser Permanente's northwest region. He has a national consulting and training practice in group therapy. Mr. Crosby is on the National Board of Certified Group Psychotherapists and is an adjunct faculty member at Lewis & Clark College graduate school in counseling psychology, Portland State University in continuing professional education, and Marylhurst University in humanities.

Douglas Querin, JD, MA is a former trial attorney with over 25 years experience in civil litigation. He currently works as an attorney-counselor with the Oregon Attorney Assistance Program of the Oregon State Bar and as adjunct professor with the graduate department of counseling at George Fox University. He received his JD from the University of Oregon School of Law and his MA in counseling from George Fox University. He currently serves on the Board of the Oregon Counseling Association and is chair of the association’s ethics committee. He is a member of the ethics committee of the Addiction Counseling Certification Board of Oregon (ACCBO). Mr. Querin has presented at various seminars and conferences on mental health, counseling, and ethics related topics, including at Portland State University, George Fox University, and William Temple House Counseling Department, as well as for the Oregon State Bar/Professional Liability Fund.

Ron Unger, LCSW, is a therapist specializing in cognitive therapy for psychosis, who works with both individuals and groups. After studying a variety of psychological approaches to psychosis over several decades, he decided on cognitive therapy due to its revolutionary yet down-to-earth and well-researched approach. Mr. Unger has been a pioneer in bringing cognitive therapy for psychosis into Oregon and has given numerous presentations and workshops about this type of therapy. He has also presented on other psychosocial approaches to psychosis and on the psychological impact of trauma, including the frequent relationship between trauma and psychosis. Mr. Unger’s presentations emphasize simple, practical, and humanistic ways of understanding and relating to human difficulties that can too easily be perceived as being "beyond understanding."

Reid Vanderburgh, MA, LMFT, has been interested in issues pertaining to gender identity and sexual orientation for years. Mr. Vanderburgh's therapeutic specialty is helping clients cope with major life transformative events, such as death of a spouse or child, shifting sexual orientation, spiritual crises, and transition from one sex to another. His work often utilizes expressive arts along with more traditional psychodynamic methods. Mr. Vanderburgh also volunteers at the Trans/identity Resource Center (TiRC). TiRC is affiliated with Outside In, a Portland organization that works with street youth, though TiRC’s services are available to transgendered people of all ages. Through TiRC, he helps transgendered people obtain legal identification and name changes that are gender congruent. He is the author of Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity, 2006.

Vikki Vandiver, PhD, MSW is a professor of Social Work at Portland State University and clinical associate professor with the Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Sciences University. She has been in the field of community mental health for 30 years and has extensive experience offering trainings and academic courses on the use (and misuse) of the DSM to conduct assessments and diagnoses.