Meet the Team

Deirdre Waters, PsyD, Director, is a New Jersey licensed psychologist who has worked in the mental health field for over twenty years and her areas of expertise include anxiety disorders, early recovery issues, substance abuse/dependency, women’s issues, and stress management. Dr Waters has supervised graduate students in various stages of training (practicum, pre doctoral interns and post doctoral fellows) and is committed to teaching third wave cognitive behavioral therapy (ACT) to her students. She is also dedicated to trying to close the treatment gap in the Bayshore area, throughout New Jersey, and providing empirically supported psychotherapy to its residents.

 

Julie Matsen Devitt, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Georgia.  Her clinical interests include trauma, disordered eating, and emotion dysregulation. Dr. Matsen was raised in the Bayshore area, and she is pleased to be able to return to Monmouth County as a licensed psychologist.

 

Willow, AKA Therapy Dog in Training, hopes to be at the office soon providing comfort and care to BHI clients. She is a loving puppy who will spend the next year in rigorous training to earn her certificate as a therapy dog.

 

 

 

Extern Class

Rachel Furlan, BS is a 2nd year Clinical Psychology Doctorate (Psy.D.) student at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. She completed her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at Boston College, where she conducted research on sleep, cognition, and emotion. After graduating, Rachel served with AmeriCorps in Phoenix Arizona, providing live-in, trauma-informed support to previously unhoused pregnant and parenting individuals. Her clinical interests lie in health psychology, with a particular focus on reproductive and perinatal health as well as eating disorder treatment. She is looking forward to expanding her clinical training at BHI.