About Our Faculty


The Chicago School's practitioner-focused teaching model hinges on our innovative faculty. Chicago School professors are highly experienced professionals and leaders in their respective fields. Through their work on the front lines of the psychology profession, students gain insight and wisdom that extends far beyond the bounds of theory. Faculty members pride themselves on their accessibility to students, which helps create a close-knit academic learning community.

Faculty at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology are practitioners and experts in the fields in which they teach. Our faculty publish books, whitepapers and articles in leading psychology journals and in popular media, and are regularly invited to present at conferences around the globe.

Check out current and upcoming faculty scholarship below. For past work, see individual faculty member biographies.

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Learning Skills for Living with Autism

Adolescence is hard enough for anyone, but for youth with autism it presents a unique set of challenges. Chicago School student Corey McDonald created a program for her middle-school-aged autistic students that is helping them learn relational skills and feel accepted among their peers.
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Learning Skills for Living with Autism

Changing the Face of Latino Mental Health

Though Latinos are the nation’s largest and fastest growing ethnic group, health care professionals who understand the unique needs they face are scarce. A nationally recognized Chicago School initiative headed by Dr. Hector Torres is teaching students culturally relevant approaches to Latino health care and, in turn, changing the mental health playing field.
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Latino Mental Health

Dr. Rachel Findel-Pyles

“When provided consistently and intensively as early intervention, ABA techniques can and do virtually eliminate the diagnosis of autism in young children. As dramatic as that sounds, for those of us who do this every day, it’s just an accepted fact.” -Dr. Rachel Findel-Pyles, Faculty, Applied Behavior Analysis, L.A. Campus

Dr. Rachel Findel-Pyles