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Wendi Williams
wendi.williams@liu.edu
718-780-4369
Dr. Wendi Williams is a counseling psychologist with a strong commitment to social justice and advocacy for all members of our diverse society. Through implementation of the tenets of liberation psychology, she seeks to challenge and inspire her students and colleagues in the pursuit of improving the role of counseling and psychology in our world. A recent addition to the Human Development and Leadership faculty as an Assistant Professor in Counseling, Dr. Williams’ varied experiences informs her teaching, research and student advisement. Some include counseling in an metro-Atlanta in-patient psychiatric facility, coordinating of a community participatory action research project, conducting neuropsychological assessment of college students, providing play therapy instruction to parents at an urban pre-school, college student counseling and development at Georgia State University and the University of Maryland, facilitating inter-group dialogues, serving in the social services in Los Angeles, serving as Motivational Interviewing faculty with the American Dietetic Association, and performing research with vulnerable populations at Emory and San Francisco State Universities.
Dr. Williams’ research interests include the development, implementation and evaluation of school and community-based interventions aimed at promoting optimal health and well-being of urban youth and their families. In her work, the school and youth/family focused community organizations are conceived as the sites through which critical consciousness can be cultivated among community members to effect relevant societal change and justice. Additional research interests include the role of ethnicity and culture toward psychological resilience, the development of resilience communities, and the effects of multiple marginalized identities on identity development. Her scholarly work focused on internalized racial oppression among African descent persons, women’s multiple roles, African descent women’s identity, implementing social justice in counseling, and infusing multiculturalism in group processing and content have been published in scholarly journals and presented at professional conferences.
Dr. Williams is a graduate of the counseling psychology program at Georgia State University with a specialty in Child Clinical/Family and Multicultural Counseling. She has prepared courses in career development and life planning, group systems, multicultural counseling, research methodology with an emphasis on qualitative approaches, and academic life skills for college students. Dr. Williams is affiliated with the following: American Counseling Association, American Psychological Association and the Association of Black Psychologists.
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