PSYC Student Handbook

Janine Wanlass, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology and counseling at Westminster College, where she has taught for over twenty years.  In 2010, she won the Gore Excellence in Teaching Award, an honor bestowed to one faculty member each year by the collective faculty of Westminster College.  She was the founding director of the Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling Program at Westminster.  Drawing from a scientist-practitioner model, she mentors, teaches, supervises, and guides emerging counselors in the mental health field, sharing her passion and enjoyment in the art of psychotherapy.  Dr. Wanlass is a psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she treats children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Her clinical expertise is in the treatment of people struggling with traumatic life events, eating disorders, depression, and anxiety.  Dr. Wanlass is a graduate member and teaching faculty of the International Institute of Psychoanalytic Training.  She chairs the Child, Couple, and Family Program and serves as a national faculty member for the International Psychotherapy Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  Her most recent publication, The Intergenerational and Cultural Transmission of Trauma, focuses on her work with couple psychotherapy training in China and appears in Karnac’s Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis.  Her research interests include applications of object relations theory to clinical practice, psychoanalytic process and outcome research, interpersonal, Intergenerational, and cultural trauma,play therapy, psychoanalytic couple and family therapy, and the use of technology in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and supervision.