The NCHERM Behavioral Mental Health Consultation Team can be retained by your campus for year-round, 24/7 on-call case consultation.   

The BMHCT is composed of the following five professionals:  

• Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D., Certified Forensic Counselor, Director of Counseling and Testing, Western Kentucky University

• Perry Francis, Ed.D., LPC, Associate Professor of Counseling/Coordinator of Counseling Service, COE Counseling Clinic, Eastern Michigan University. 

• Mitchell Levy, Ph.D., L.M.H.C., Executive Director of the Center for Counseling, Advising, and Academic Support, LaGuardia Community College

• Mocha Dyrud, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Psychology, Northern Virginia Community College

• Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Esq., Mental Health Law expert, President of Campus Behavioral Health Risk Consultants  

The team is available 24/7 to consult with campus behavioral intervention and threat assessment teams on case management. 

The BMHCT mental health professionals are not available for clinical therapy or assessment with students, but are intended to help inform teams that need diagnostic, forensic, behavioral, psychiatric, pharmacological and related advice. 

Many colleges and universities lack such expertise in-house, or on a 24/7 basis.   The BMHCT is here to supplement your resources in a cost-effective way.  

Calls to the BHMCT are centralized at Campus Behavioral Health Risk Consultants 24-hour call center and then triaged according to the nature of the consultation needed.  Each call will be assigned to an appropriate, available team member.  

Please contact Samantha Dutill, NCHERM Client Relations Coordinator, for details on retaining the services of the BMHCT.  Samantha@ncherm.org or (610) 993-0229.

Dr. Van Brunt is a Certified Forensic Counselor and has worked in the counseling field for over fourteen years. He served as Director of Counseling at New England College from 2001-2007 and currently serves as Director of Counseling and Testing at Western Kentucky University. His counseling style draws from a variety of approaches, though primarily from the humanistic/person-centered style of treatment with its emphasis on warmth, compassion, empathy, unconditional positive regard, individual choice and personal responsibility. He is a certified QPR suicide prevention trainer and trained in BASICS alcohol intervention. Brian is also a certified trainer in John Byrnes' Aggression Management program.

Brian has presented nationally on counseling ethics, mandated counseling, and testing and assessment for the American College Counseling Association (ACCA), Association of College and University Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD), American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and the National Association of Forensic Counselors (NAFC). He has presented on web site design at the Georgia College Counseling Association (GCCA) conference in 2007 and was awarded the American College Health Association Innovation Grant for his work on New England College’s website. He has taught graduate classes in counseling theory, ethics, testing and assessment and program evaluation. He has taught undergraduate classes in adjustment and personal growth, deviance and counseling theory.

He completed his doctorate from Argosy University in Sarasota Florida (formerly the University of Sarasota) in counseling psychology, finished his masters degree from Salem State College in counseling and psychological services and received a bachelors in psychology from Gordon College.

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Perry C. Francis, Ed.D.

Dr. Perry C. Francis is part of the faculty at Eastern Michigan University in the Department of Leadership & Counseling. He serves as an associate professor of counseling and the coordinator of counseling for the College of Education Clinical Suite. The clinic is a training facility for advanced level graduate counseling students where they see clients from the community, student body of EMU, and referrals from the county mental health center. 

He is a member of the American College Counseling Association (ACCA) and has served on the leadership team as a Board Member-at-Large and as the President. He has presented on ethics in supervision, ethical issues facing college counselors, and suicide prevention at conferences in the United States and Canada. He has also author numerous journal articles and book chapters including the chapter Professional Student Affairs Practitioners: History, Models, And Trends, in the forthcoming book: Joining the Counseling Profession: Developing Your Identity as a Professional Counselor and Counseling Issues Of College Students and Religion & Spirituality In Counseling, in the Professional Counselor’s Desk Reference. Dr. Francis is also an authorized trainer for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center’s programming on the Assessing & Managing Suicide Risk: Core Competencies for University & College Mental Health Providers. He is also an authorized Aggression Management trainer for the Center for Aggression Management. 

Dr. Francis earned his degree in counselor education at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC). Before completing his degree, Perry was a Lutheran parish pastor and a campus pastor. He also served as an interim staff psychologist at the UNC Counseling Center.

Mitchell A. Levy, Ph.D., L.M.H.C.

Dr. Levy possesses 27 years of experience in Higher Education Administration. Currently, he is the Executive Director of the LaGuardia Community College Center for Counseling, Advising, & Academic Support. In addition, he has been a Director of Student Development, Director of Counseling, Coordinator of Disability Services, and Chairperson of various student retention seminars at community colleges serving diverse, non-traditional populations.

At senior colleges, Dr. Levy has been the Coordinator of a counseling externship program, Assistant Director of Counseling, Sports Psychology consultant and crisis management consultant. As an adjunct faculty member, Dr. Levy has 20 years of experience teaching graduate and undergraduate courses.

With respect to professional development programming, Dr. Levy has conducted 80+ presentations, including: Managing Disruptive Classroom Behavior (2008), Assessing Institutional Preparedness for Managing Campus Emergencies (2007), How to Recognize Students in Need and Make Effective Referrals (2007), The Critical Incident Review Protocol as a Tool for Counseling Centers (w/ Grieger, 2005), A Systemic Protocol for Managing Psychological Emergencies in the Residence Hall (2004), A Systemic Model for Managing College Depression and Suicide (w/ Grieger & Johnson, 1997), Student Suicide in the 90’s and Beyond: A Re-evaluation of Policy and Interventions (w/ Tully, 1996), and Re-examining Student Suicide: A Pro-Active Perspective (1995).

Mocha Dyrud, Ph.D.

Dr. Dyrud is an assistant professor of psychology at Northern Virginia Community College, which serves 63,000 students across 6 campuses.  She is a clinical psychologist and teaches psychology survey courses as well as abnormal, personality theories, and human sexuality.  She has also taught courses in college success strategies for at-risk students, adolescent development, self and identity, and senior seminars.  She was nominated as a 2009 NVCC Faculty Member of the Year.    She serves on NVCCs Student Mental Health and Behavior Advisory Committee, and as a CARE team member for her campus.

Dr. Dyrud completed her doctorate and M.A. from Suffolk University in Boston, MA.  She received her B.A. in psychology from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN.   Her clinical focus was in college counseling centers and she has counseled students at numerous university centers.  Within these trainings, Dr. Dyrud has worked closely with learning centers and disability services, as well as provided crisis intervention, support, and training to the campus communities.

Carolyn Reinach Wolf, Esq.

Carolyn Reinach Wolf is a senior partner of the Abrams law firm on Long Island, NY and is responsible for the mental health law practice area.  She holds a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law, an M.S. in Health Services Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and an M.B.A. in Management from the Hofstra University School of Business.  She is admitted to practice in New York State and Federal Courts as well as the U.S. Supreme Court.  Prior to practicing law, Ms. Wolf was a hospital administrator and Director of Risk Management.

Ms. Wolf’s practice concentrates in the areas of mental health and health care law, representing mental health and health care professionals, major hospital systems and community hospitals, institutional and community outpatient programs, skilled nursing facilities, higher education counseling centers, individuals and families.  Her expertise includes mental hygiene law, including retention and treatment over objection psychiatric cases, mental health warrants, capacity determinations, informed consent and medical treatment cases, confidentiality and release of records matters, interaction with law enforcement in health care facilities and institutions of higher learning, Kendra’s Law applications (Assisted Out-Patient Treatment Orders), Article 81 and 17-A guardianship proceedings, civil and criminal litigation and negotiation specific to mental health issues, consultation and advice in navigating the mental health system and legal interventions in the inpatient, outpatient and campus counseling treatment settings. 

Ms. Wolf is a frequently invited speaker and a consultant to college and university counseling centers and administrators throughout the country regarding mental health law issues.  These issues include: the increasing rate of student suicides, serious mental illness on campus, drug and alcohol abuse, date rape, law enforcement, confidentiality, parental notification, documentation and the increasing liability of campus staff, administrators, mental health professionals and the institutions themselves. 

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