Meet the Conference Planning Committee

Dr. Roxanne Christensen is a licensed doctoral psychologist and early career supervisor who provides existential-humanistic, depth-oriented mental wellness care from a feminist-multicultural lens integrating Western contextualization with Eastern philosophy. She specializes in working with people of marginalized and intersectional experiences, inclusive of gender equity, experiences of people of color, and survivors of trauma.

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Dr. Christensen has been a member of Division 32 for well over a decade beginning as a Student Ambassador and then joining the Division 32 Executive Board as a Student Representation, Member-at-Large, Secretary, and President (2024-2025). Roxanne has been on several planning committees, consulted for diversity and equity boards, chaired conference events, co-chairs the Standing Committee against Hate Incidents, is a reviewer and editorial board member for The Humanistic Psychologist and Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and has given CE and experiential presentations at several Division 32 conferences and APA Convention and Division 32 Hospitality Suite. Being a part of the Conference Committee has been a great joy of synergy and service alongside beloved colleagues and friends. We hope you have an amazing conference experience in Pittsburgh!
 

Dr. Soet Buzolits is a licensed psychologist who is an Affiliated Faculty member at the Michigan School of Psychology. She is the co-owner and operator of Arbor Wellness Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which provides psychotherapy for a wide range of issues and supervision and consultation for mental health professionals.  In her private practice, Dr. Buzolits works with adolescents and adults on a broad range of mental health concerns including: depression, anxiety, trauma, eating disorders, managing chronic illness, recovering from toxic relationships, sexual and domestic violence.  She is a yoga teacher and combines body-based work with traditional psychotherapy.

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Previous to these positions, she worked as a Project Director for the Michigan Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board, supporting statewide initiatives to train providers of survivor services.  She worked as interim Assistant Dean of Students for the University of Michigan, leading efforts to address critical incident management and helping to develop protocols for appropriately responding to students in crisis.  She also served as the Director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center at the University of Michigan, providing direct services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence, their friends and family, as well as delivering education on these topics to the university community.    She has conducted research and written on topics such as trauma, sexuality, birth, college student mental health, instrument development, multicultural counseling, and spirituality. She has taught clinical skills at Georgia State University and research and survey methodology at both the University of Michigan and Emory University’s School of Public Health.