Staff Spotlight - Wayne College Coordinator of Counseling and Accessibility Services, Dr. Jane Fink
Dr. Jane M. Fink is the full-time Coordinator of Counseling and Accessibility services for Wayne College. She offers clinical counseling to assist students with issues that may interfere with personal growth and academic success. Her philosophy as a psychotherapist is to look at emotional, physical and developmental challenges as normal human experiences. Dr. Fink helps people focus on their strengths and learn to cope with challenges that interfere with their quality of life. She offers counseling to deal with a wide range of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, relationship issues, stress management, dealing with loss and life transitions and a variety of areas to enhance personal growth and development. As the Coordinator of Counseling and Accessibility services, she oversees and provides direction for a comprehensive program of services to students with disabilities. Additionally, she provides training, ongoing education and consultation opportunities for administrators, faculty and staff.
Dr. Fink has been a part-time instructor at Wayne College since 2000 and has taught on the Akron campus in the social work and counseling departments and continues to teach online graduate classes. Dr. Fink received her doctorate in counseling education and supervision from The University of Akron. She is licensed by the Counselor and Social Worker Board of Ohio as a Professional Clinical Counselor Supervisor (PCC-S) and as a Licensed Independent Social Worker Supervisor (LISW-S).Dr. Fink has twenty-five years of clinical experience with clients in private practice settings, community mental health agencies, in-patient settings and university counseling centers.
She regularly speaks at conferences and in the community and was accepted to present at the American College Counseling Association conference in New Orleans in 2013 as well as at the Academy for Eating Disorders in Salsburg, Austria in 2010. She also was selected as a Field Trial Researcher and completed clinical trials in the areas of anxiety and eating disorders for the DSM-5 clinical trials studies and is published in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual DSM-5 (APA, 2013).
She has a specialization in eating disorders and holds certification as an eating disorder specialist by the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals. With a grant written in cooperation with the Wayne Holmes Mental Health and Recovery Board and the Ohio Program for Campus Safety and Mental Health, Dr. Fink, three Wayne College Students, and a member of the mental Health Board received QPR suicide prevention Instructor Certification and training. They have presented on the topic of suicide prevention to over 250 students, faculty and staff to date, at Wayne College and surrounding colleges. Dr. Fink said, “This was a tremendous opportunity for the students to become aware of the issue of suicide in general as well as on college campuses, and become activists and advocates within our community.”
Additionally, Dr. Fink is the chair of the Wayne College Accessibility committee, serves on the College’s diversity committee, and is a member of a peer consultation group comprised of psychologists and counselors from four surrounding colleges.
Dr. Fink’s office is located in the College’s Main Classroom Building, Room A130. She can be reached via email at jfink@uakron.edu or phone at 330-684-8767.