Affiliate Faculty & Collaborators
LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST & SEX THERAPIST
Katherine Arenella, PhD
Dr. Arenella (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at Alliant International University. She received her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Charlie Norwood VA and Medical College of Georgia and her postdoctoral fellowship as the Michael Metz Fellow in Couples' Sexual Health at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Dr. Arenella's research and clinical interests include sexual and gender health, LGBTQ affirming practice, gynecologic cancer, and women's health and aging. She has published in International Psychogeriatrics, the Journal of Women and Aging, and The Gerontologist, and she has presented at conferences such as the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Annual Conference. She is an AASECT certified sex therapist and is experienced in a number of empirically supported therapies, such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Sensate Focus.
LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST & SEX THERAPIST
Caroline Maykut, PhD
Dr. Caroline Maykut (she/her) earned her Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where her research focused on assessment and conceptualizations of sexual desire. Following completion of her degree, Dr. Maykut completed a fellowship in Rural Health Psychology with Norton Sound Health Corporation in Nome, Alaska, and worked as a practicing psychologist in Alaska. She then completed a 2-year fellowship at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (ISGH) at the University of Minnesota Medical School. At the ISGH, Dr. Maykut worked in Relationship and Sex Therapy, Compulsive Sexual Behavior, and Transgender Health programs. She has extensive training in sex therapy, and has been trained in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C), and Emotion-Focused Therapy for Resolving Emotional Injuries (EFT-C-EI).
Dr. Maykut has a special interest in working with individuals, couples, and other relationship systems on issues related to sexual health and function, intimacy, compulsive/problematic sexual behavior, sexual trauma recovery, and gender identity exploration and/or gender transition support. She is also a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR), and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
RESEARCH AFFILIATE
Lisa Suzuki, PhD
Dr. Lisa Suzuki (she/her) conducts research in the area of multicultural assessment in particular understanding how culture impacts the process of cognitive assessment. Her work also focuses on the usage of qualitative research strategies with diverse ethnocultural groups. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development and Psychological Assessment. She is also a consulting editor for the Asian American Journal of Psychology. She is senior co-editor of the Handbook of Multicultural Assessment now in its third edition (with Joseph Ponterotto) and co editor of The Handbook of Multicultural Counseling (with Manuel Casas, Charlene Alexander, and Margo Jackson) also in its third edition. She is co-author of Intelligent Testing with Minority Students (with Richard Valencia), co-editor of Using Qualitative Methods in Psychology (with Mary Kopala) and Qualitative Strategies with Ethnocultural Populations (with Donna Nagata and Laura Kohn-Wood). Dr. Suzuki is the recipient of the Distinguished Contribution bestowed by the Asian American Psychological Association (2006) and the Visionary Leadership Award from the National Multicultural Conference and Summit (2007). She served as the Vice-President of Diversity and Public Interest for the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) of the American Psychological Association (2002-2005). Suzuki received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1992 and has taught in the counseling psychology programs at Fordham University and the University of Oregon.