Student Mentorship Luncheon

2026 Mentors

Courtney Cabell, PsyD

Courtney D. Cabell, PsyD, CCTP is Core Faculty at the Michigan School of Psychology, where she teaches and mentors graduate students with a strong emphasis on culturally responsive, humanistic practice, and critical inquiry. She is the Founder and President of Open Heart Communities, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bridging the gap between mental health and social justice through culturally grounded, trauma-informed, and community-based services.

Courtney also serves as Conference Chair and Member-at-Large for Division 32, contributing to the advancement of humanistic psychology through leadership, programming, and scholarly engagement. Her research and clinical interests center on existential and racialized trauma, embodied and movement-based interventions, and the lived psychological impacts of systemic oppression. Across her teaching, research, and community work, Courtney is deeply committed to humanistic, Black feminist, and liberation-oriented psychological frameworks that foreground dignity, meaning-making, and collective healing.

Adam Lotfi, PsyD

Adam Lotfi, PsyD is Core Faculty at the Michigan School of Psychology.

As an educator, Adam emphasizes critical thinking, self-reflection, and experiential learning, supporting students in integrating theory with real-world clinical practice. His clinical background spans secondary and higher education settings, healthcare, and community mental health. He currently operates a remote private practice and contracts with an Employee Assistance Program, providing services nationally through PSYPACT.

Adam's teaching and clinical work are grounded in the Person-Centered Approach and an existential understanding of distress, emphasizing relational presence, empathy, and authenticity as conditions for growth. He is particularly interested in identity development, crisis intervention, relational concerns, and existential meaning-making. Across roles, his philosophy centers on meeting people where they are and fostering environments in which healing and transformation can naturally emerge.

Louis Hoffman, PhD

Louis Hoffman, PhD, is the Executive Director for the Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association, the Editor of The Humanistic Psychologist, and the co-chair of the Fourth World Congress of Existential Therapy to be held in Aurora/Denver, Colorado, in June 2026. An avid writer, Dr. Hoffman has written/edited 28 books, including the APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Therapy, Case Formulation in Existential-Humanistic Therapy, The Evidence-Based Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Therapy, Becoming an Existential-Humanistic Therapist, and Letters for My Father: Grief, Love, and Self-Exploration. He was also featured in the training video, Existential-Humanistic Case Formulation, published by APA Videos. He continues to teach at the University of Denver, Saybrook University, and the International Institute for Existential-Humanistic Psychology. Due to his contributions to psychology, he has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and seven of its divisions (1, 10, 12, 32, 36, 48, 52). The Society for Humanistic Psychology awarded him with the Rollo May Award in 2021. Outside of psychology, he enjoys bicycling, hiking, poetry, and the joys of deep dialogues and relational depth.

Brian Hanna, PsyD

Brian Hanna, PsyD is a psychologist with over 15 years of experience working across a wide range of clinical settings, including private group practice, community mental health centers, hospitals, residential treatment facilities, and a cancer support center. He is the owner of Hanna Psychological Services, where he provides psychotherapy grounded in humanistic and existential traditions.

Brian has a deep and longstanding commitment to humanistic psychology and has served in multiple leadership roles within Division 32, including Program Chair and current Accommodations Chair, as well as ongoing service on the Division 32 Board. His clinical approach is rooted in the belief that human beings are always changing, even in moments when they feel most stuck. Brian’s work centers on curiosity about what sustains patterns of stuckness and how awareness, responsibility, and presence can open space for movement and meaning.

Johanna Soet Buzolits, PhD

Soet Buzolits, PhD is a licensed psychologist and the Program Director of the
Masters in Counseling Program at Baker College. She is also 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, Johanna 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. She also conducts research and writes on topics such as trauma, sexuality, birth, college student mental health, instrument development, multicultural counseling and spirituality.

Drake Spaeth, PsyD

Drake Spaeth, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and faculty member at Saybrook University. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Chicago School, and former affiliate faculty at The family Institute at Northwestern University. He is a former active-duty USAF psychologist and Past President (2019-2020) of APA Division 32, The Society for Humanistic Psychology. His work connects existential, humanistic, archetypal, and transpersonal perspectives, emphasizing personal transformation, mythic imagination, and integrative approaches to healing in contemporary psychological practice.