Clinical Center

Providing over 60 years of training and service to the community.

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Last Updated: Sep 09, 2025, 12:43 PM

Events

Trauma Training Conference
Date: October 10–11
Location: Simmonds Law School Auditorium
On-site & Virtual Presentations

The Clinical Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has been part of the Southern Illinois Community since 1958. We serve as a training and research site for various campus departments that train professionals for work in psychological, educational, and Speech & Language services. In that training and research capacity, we provide a range of services designed to improve the lives of the individuals we serve. The Clinical Center provides services to children, adolescents, and adults in the community. Some are associated with SIU, but many are not.

Assessments 

  • Psychological assessments, including learning disability and attention deficit disorder
  • Speech and language assessments (e.g., articulation, phonological development, voice, stuttering, receptive and expressive language, auditory processing, aphasia, cognitive-linguistic, oral-motor, swallowing)
  • Intakes are conducted for all new clients seeking psychological services

Of note, the Clinical Center does NOT provide disability, custody, or court assessments.

Counseling/Treatment Interventions

  • Speech & Language treatment (e.g., language, speech, sound production, stuttering, speech reading, aphasia rehabilitation, voice and aural rehabilitation)
  • Individual and group counseling (including child, adolescent, and adult) - see our specialities.
  • Family and couples counseling
  • Parent training

Faculty Practice Plan

If an individual prefers to work with a licensed faculty supervisor, some supervisors participate in our faculty practice plan. Please review faculty profiles and areas of expertise to learn more. The rates for service are different for seeing licensed faculty clinicians. It is important for you to know that we do not bill insurance for these services. 

Our Groups

Putting Children First

Co-Parenting After Separation and/or Divorce - Live, Online Parenting Course

Illinois Supreme Court Rule 924 requires that divorcing parents take a "parenting class" designed to educate parents how children are affected by the splitting of their parents, including impact of parents' actions and words.

This course on co-parenting after separation and/or divorce is a four-hour class that will cover the following topics:

  • Self-compassion
  • Effects of separation and divorce on children
  • Developmental parenting arrangements
  • Creating a shared parenting plan
  • Communication
For more details, click here

Transgender Voice Therapy

Explore your authentic voice at the SIUC Clinical Center.

Our speech-language pathologists are offering an eight-week training on Wednesdays 5pm-7:30pm.

For more details, click here

Groups for Transgender and Non-Binary Teens and Their Parents

Tuesdays at 6:00-7:30pm

Contact Us: (618) 453-2361

Flyer for Parents Flyer for Teens

Safe and Effective Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Adults

Presented by Coffman Crother Training Program

Date: Friday, October 11
Time: 9am - 4pm
Location: SIU Simmons Law School

Register

Partnering With the Community

For the last two years, the Clinical Center has partnered with Jackson County to waive fees for psychological assessments for those who qualify. Additionally, the center often works with DCFS on certain cases, along with receiving assessment and counseling cases by court order.

We commemorate these partnerships and valuable support, while welcoming community members to learn more about the many services available to them.

Partnering With the Community

Our Staff

  • Holly Cormier, Ph.D.

    Clinic Director and Psychological Services Coordinator

    Holly Cormier is a licensed clinical psychologist within the state of Illinois. She received her doctoral degree at the University of Toronto in 2004. Dr. Cormier the director of the Clinical Center as well as the coordinator of psychological services. She has lecturer status in the department of Psychology at the university and supervises graduate students training to be mental health professionals. Dr. Cormier has special interests in the areas of trauma, disordered eating, depression, and anxiety.
    Holly Cormier

  • Melissa Judge

    Assistant Lecturer & Clinical Coordinator, Communication Disorders & Science

    Melissa judge is a licensed speech language pathologist in the state of Illinois. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from SIU Carbondale. Mrs. Judge is the coordinator for speech language services at the clinical center. In addition to her coordinator role, she is also an assistant lecturer in the communication disorders and sciences department and supervises graduate students during their clinical training to be speech language pathologists. Her special interests include functional communication, autism, phonological disorders and collaboration with families and other professionals.
    Melissa Judge

  • Cynthia Clark, Ph.D.

    Counseling Specialist

    Cindy is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Illinois.  She received her doctoral degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1990.  Dr. Clark supervises graduate students in their training as mental health professionals.  She provides individual, couples, and family therapy and utilizes an eclectic, holistic approach with a foundation in psychodynamic orientations, family systems, and mindfulness.  Her special interests include relationship issues, adolescents, families, and adoption.
    Cynthia Clark

  • Amber Drake, M.S., LCPC

    Counseling Specialist

    Amber Drake M.S., LCPC is a clinical supervisor. She received her Master's Degree in clinical psychology at the University of South Carolina. Her expertise includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for individuals and Gottman Therapy for couples.
    Amber Drake

  • Thomas Aken

    Program Administrative Aide

  • Michelle Mickulas

    Accounting Officer

Our Therapy Dogs

  • Beatrice Aken (R.I.P.)

    Therapy Dog In-training

    Beatrice - black dog

  • Bailey Cormier

    Bailey - golden dog

Equal Opportunity Statement

It is the policy of the SIUC Clinical Center to provide equal educational and training opportunities for all qualified students, and clinical services to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a disabled veteran of the Vietnam era, sexual orientation sexual identity, or marital or family status.