Community Psychological Service Psychology Faculty

STEVE BOURNE, Ph.D., is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at UMSL. He is the Manager of Clinical Services and Interim Director of the Community Psychological Service. Dr. Bourne provides psychotherapy and assessment supervision to Psychological Trainees in the doctoral program at UMSL, interns, and postdoctoral fellows. He also provides treatment and assessment services at Community Psychological Service. Dr. Bourne interned in the St. Louis Psychology Internship Consortium. He has worked in inpatient, residential and outpatient settings with children, adolescents, and adults. His clinical interests include psychological assessment, mood disorders in children and adults, trauma-focused therapies,and integrative approaches to psychotherapy.

ASHLEY DARLING, Psy.D., is a staff psychologist at the Community Psychological Service and specializes in psychological assessment. She earned her MA and PsyD from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Family Service and Guidance Center in Topeka, Kansas. Dr. Darling has experience completing psychological assessments of children who have been prenatally exposed to substances/alcohol, as well as children with traumatic histories. Her clinical interests include early childhood development and play therapy.

DEANA L. SMITH, Ph.D., a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at UMSL, is the Director of Internship Training for the Saint Louis Psychology Internship Consortium and Associate Director of the Community Psychological Service. Dr. Smith provides psychotherapy and assessment supervision to Psychological Trainees in the doctoral program at UMSL and to interns, teaches undergraduate and doctoral level courses, and conducts psychological evaluations at Community Psychological Service. She received her B.A. (1997) in Psychology from Southern Connecticut State University and her M.A. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in Clinical Psychology from UMSL. Dr. Smith interned in the Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at New Orleans. She has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings with children, adolescents and adults. Clinical interests include psychological assessment, personality disorders, psychology of women, and interpersonal, emotion-focused, and psychodynamic approaches to psychotherapy with individuals and couples.

JOSHUA VINOCOUR, Ph.D. is a Staff Psychologist at the Community Psychological Service (CPS) where he provides psychological evaluation and psychotherapy services. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UMSL, interned at Albany Psychology Internship Consortium, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at CPS. He has considerable experience providing comprehensive psychological evaluations and considers himself to be a generalist, providing therapy to individual adults, children and adolescents, couples, families, and groups. His therapeutic approach is primarily psychodynamic and attachment-based and is heavily influenced by interpersonal process and emotion-focused perspectives. Dr. Vinocour currently provides therapy and assessment supervision to clinical and school psychology graduate students as well as psychology interns.