Debolina Ghosh, Ph.D.

Phone:

812-378-7241

Email:

ghosde@iu.edu

Department:

Division of Science

Professional Summary

With over 17 years of proven experience, she was an Assistant Professor at Stephens College, Missouri and a Counselor at Lawrence and Oliver Associates doing individual, group, and family counseling. Additionally, Dr. Ghosh is involved in research and counseling at the Heart Space Clinic doing heart math and safe and sound techniques with clients under crisis and trauma.

Dr. Ghosh has a diverse teaching experiences in countries like India, China, South America and USA. She was the student’s affair Coordinator/Counselor for students of XLRI (Jamshedpur) and Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore). She has also worked with multiple schools, mental health centers and hospitals both nationally and internationally. Dr. Ghosh has presented at various mental health conferences in Italy, Switzerland, Greece, India, and USA. She has experience working in a substance abuse facility working with clients who were charged with driving under influence and has also worked with clients with autism, obesity, mood disorder, and depression.

Dr. Ghosh pursued Doctorate (PhD) at the University of Florida specializing in “Marriage and Family Counseling”. Before, pursuing her PhD, she completed her Masters in “Clinical Social Work” from the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA and Masters in “Clinical Psychology” from Calcutta University, India.  She is a recipient of multiple awards and recognition like “Tata Scholar”, “American Alumni Award”, “Grinter Fellowship”, “Robert O Stripling” prestigious honor. She also received the “Researcher of the Year” award by Florida Mental Health Counseling Association and the best Alumni of the year by DBMS English School. Dr. Ghosh received several travel grants from University of Florida, Ratan Tata Travel Grant, and JN Tata Endowment. Lastly, she was a Graduate student representative of Florida Association of Multicultural Development.

Education:

Bachelors in Psychology, Rama Devi Women's college, India, 2003

Masters in Clinical Psychology, Calcutta University, 2005

Masters in Clinical Social Work, University of South Florida 2013

PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision, University of Florida 2019

Courses Taught:

Group Counseling, Multicultural Counseling, Human Growth and development, Counseling lab, Diagnosis in counseling, Human Sexuality, Assessments in Counseling.

Awards and Activities:

• Awarded the Academic Proficiency Award for the highest scores in Psychology in the high school finals (1998-200) 
• Awarded the First Prize in recognition of being the best volunteer of the Red Cross Society at Bhubaneswar (2002)  
• Awarded the Ratan Tata Scholarship to attend the International Conference on Academic Disciplines held in Orlando, Florida (2009)  
• Awarded the Tata Scholar for outstanding achievements in Psychology (2010)  
• Awarded a scholarship by American Alumni Association for exemplary performance in Psychology (2010)  
• Awarded a scholarship by 2011 Minnesota Age and Disabilities Conference to attend the conference (2011)  
• Awarded Robert O. Stripling Scholarship by College of Education, University of Florida (2013)  
• Grinter Fellowship, University of Florida (2013-Present) 
• Awarded Travel grant by Department of Counselor Education and Office of Sponsored research, University of Florida to present at Association for Humanistic Counseling, Albuquerque, New Mexico (2014)  
• Volunteer Scholarship by FAMFT to attend the yearly conference in Orlando, 2014  
• Awarded Travel grant by Graduate Student Council (GSC) to present at Florida Counseling Association to be present on ‘Challenges faced by Ethnic Minority Supervisors in Supervision’ October 25, 2014  
• Awarded Volunteer Scholarship by FAMFT to attend the yearly conference in Orlando, 2015 
• Recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award, DBMS English School, India (December, 2015) 
• Recipient of Max Parker Scholarship Award for multicultural excellence by Florida Association of  Multicultural Development (FAMCD) May 2016 
• Recipient of Florida Counseling Association Member of the year (2016) 
• Recipient of Researcher of the Year Award (2017) by Florida Mental Health Counseling Association 
• Recipient of J.Ed and Betty B Price Scholarship (2017) by College of Education  
• Recipient of Certificate of Excellence by International Center, University of Florida (2018)  
• Awarded Travel grant by Graduate Student Council (GSC) and Graduate School to present at International Association of Counseling at Rome, Italy to be present on ‘Gaps in Intervention for Alcohol Use Disorder: A grounded Theory Approach’ September 23, 2018 in Rome, Italy  
• Recipient of Researcher of the Year Award (2018) by Florida Mental Health Counseling Association 
• Recipient of Researcher of the Year Award (2019) by Florida Mental Health Counseling Association 
• Recipient of Firestone Baars Grant (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, and Spring 2021) Travel award for faculty by Stephens College 
• Recipient of Summer Research grant for faculty (Summer 2020) to hire research assistants by Stephens College