Behavioral Health Providers

Behavioral Health Providers

The Behavioral Health Team is dedicated to supporting the emotional and mental well-being of our campus community. This compassionate group of clinicians, counselors, and care managers provides a range of services—from individual therapy and group counseling to crisis support and referrals. They’re here to listen, guide, and help students navigate life’s challenges with care, respect, and cultural humility.

Being emotionally well is more than just handling stress. It also involves being attentive to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, whether positive or negative.

Behavioral Health Providers

Being emotionally well is more than just handling stress. It also involves being attentive to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, whether positive or negative.  

Alexander Bennett, PhD

Behavioral Health Provider

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Lauren Gent, PsyD

Behavioral Health Provider  

Lauren Gent joined UHS in 2023 as a Behavioral Health Provider. He received his BA and MA in Cognitive Psychology from SUNY University at Buffalo (2005) and his PsyD from LaSalle University (2014) with a specialty in Clinical Sport and Exercise Psychology. He has a special clinical interest in co-morbid medical/mental health concerns, coping with acute and chronic illness or injury, motivating behavior change, behavioral weight management, and performance anxiety.

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Jocelyn Panfilo, LCSW

Behavioral Health Support Specialist

Jocelyn Panfilo, LCSW joined UHS in 2024 as the new Behavioral Health Support Specialist. She is a proud Cal Alumna (Go Bears!). She identifies as a Latina/Chicana, dancer, and healing justice warrior. She earned a BA degree in Social Welfare and minor in Dance and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. She went on to earn her Master of Social Work degree with a concentration in Social Change and Innovation at the University of Southern California, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. She has always been passionate about advocating for social justice for communities of color and especially empowering Latinx youth to succeed. She has experience working in community mental health, early childhood mental health consultation, and early childhood education settings in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Her clinical interests are: anxiety, depression, trauma, social justice, multicultural/intersectional counseling, decolonizing mental health, undocumented community, childhood trauma, and somatics.

Robyn Shannon

Robyn Papathakis Shannon, PsyD

Behavioral Health Provider  

Robyn Papathakis Shannon joined UHS in 2019 as a Behavioral Health Provider. She received her BA in Psychology from UC Davis (2009) and her PsyD from the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Northern Virginia (2016). Robyn has a special clinical interest in anxiety disorders, depression, identity development, insomnia, and the continued development of integrative behavioral healthcare models. 

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Leslie Shin, LMFT

Raghav Suri, PsyD

Raghav Suri, PsyD 

Behavioral Health Manager

Raghav Suri joined UHS in 2017 as a Behavioral Health provider. Raghav received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Wright State University and has a special clinical interest in complex trauma, co-morbid medical/mental health concerns, and childhood abuse/trauma survivors.  

Additional languages: Hindi and Punjabi

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Stephanie Takeuchi, PsyD

Stephanie joined UHS in 2023. She received her BA in Anthropology at Dartmouth College in 2012 and her
Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology at The Wright Institute in 2022. Her clinical interests are mood and anxiety disorders, acculturation stress, adult attachment, neurodiversity, and chronic medical conditions.