Tanya Crabb is senior psychologist with the UNLV Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine’s Well-Being Program. She specializes in combating PTSD, traumatic response, and other mental health concerns via existential, humanistic, and interpersonal treatment.

Crabb is a first-generation college graduate, Jamaican immigrant, Marine Corps veteran, and author. As a clinical trauma professional, she has made guiding military veterans, women, and marginalized populations through life’s challenges with resilience and strength a priority.

Crabb — who also offers services through UNLV’s Student Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) — conducts innovative workshops such as "Taking off the Cap: Transitioning out of the Military," "Superhero Stress Management," and "Superhero Relationship Management," which use the narratives of comics to relate valuable lessons in mental health and well-being. She also co-hosts a weekly podcast on 91.5 KUNV called “Let’s Talk, UNLV!”.

Sara Jordan is a licensed marriage and family therapist who serves as a professor, graduate coordinator, and program director with UNLV’s Couple and Family Therapy Program.

Jordan's research focuses on using solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) — which has been used to successfully treat many types of issues such as depression and anxiety — to help patients live their preferred lives despite the obstacles and challenges they face. She boasts more than 20 years of experience in this area, and her work on applying SFBT with substance abusers has been nationally recognized by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Health Services Administration’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices as well as the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Jordan has also influenced the use of SFBT worldwide, with her program being validated for use with Japanese and Turkish clinical populations.

A co-founding member of the International Microanalysis Associates, Jordan specializes in the systematic, moment-by-moment examination of specific observable behaviors in face-to-face dialogue, focusing on their immediate communicative functions. 

Jordan has received national and international recognition for her research efforts, is the former editor of the Journal of Solution Focused Practices, and is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).

Vaida Kazlauskaite is an assistant professor in the Couple and Family Therapy program, housed within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. Her research focuses on medical family therapy, exploring how families cope when a member is diagnosed with a chronic or terminal illness.

In particular, Kazlauskaite's work aims to understand how medical and mental health providers can engage all members of the family in communication about the illness. She also explores the needs of families while adjusting their lifestyles to adapt to having an ill family member. The objective is to provide training modules for medical and mental health providers in these areas.

Kazlauskaite is published in several peer-reviewed journals that are centered around this research area. Additionally, she has been interviewed by media outlets such as Nevada Public Radio on topics including navigating relationships and anxiety.

Dawn Moore is dually licensed as a marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and drug, alcohol and gambling counselor (LADC).

The Las Vegas native and UNLV alum returned to the university in April 2023 to serve as a faculty instructor with the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine's Couple and Family Therapy program and as the clinical director for the program's Center for Individual, Couple, and Family Counseling.

She brings more than 20 years of clinical practice experience with individuals, couples, and families to the role: Moore has worked in private practice, as well as non-profit, juvenile justice, school counseling, academia, and community agency settings. She is an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy-approved supervisor for both marriage and family therapy and licensed clinical professional counselor interns in Nevada. 

In 2013, Moore self-published a book Coming Out of the Dark, which explores the journey through depression, infidelity, divorce, and narcissistic abuse recovery. She additionally enjoys writing and teaching about topics including relationships, parenting, and the benefits of therapy.

Saira Rab, an assistant professor-in-residence with UNLV's Department of Psychology, studies technology use by diverse college student populations, international students, and pre-service teachers. She also teaches upper-level courses on topics including research methods and the psychology of learning, as well as freshman-level liberal arts courses that emphasize individual differences, self-efficacy, and self-regulation of college students.

Rab has experience in multicultural and multimethodology research and pedagogy with service learning. Her most recent line of research seeks to examine the psychological impact of social media and other technology on college students.

Prior to UNLV, Rab taught undergraduate courses at several Texas institutions on psychology and human development and family sciences. As an undergraduate psychology research assistant of the George Marsh Applied Cognition lab through the Ronald E. McNair Scholar program, Rab published articles on topics such as social media and psychiatric disorders, 3-D learning, and social presence.

In addition to teaching and research, the first-generation, minority faculty member mentors undergraduate and graduate student researchers, and serves as a faculty advisor and committee member at UNLV. Her professional goals include supporting at-risk students to achieve higher education and success throughout their academic journeys.

Rab has certificates in effective college education and university teaching from the Association of College and University Educators, and has won the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award for Group Teaching. Her role as fundraising director for the Young Nonprofit Professional Network Southern Nevada board allows her to also serve as a liaison for UNLV students seeking job opportunities in nonprofit sectors. Additionally, Rab is a member of organizations including the American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and Association for Psychological Science. 

Natasha Mosby is a licensed clinical social worker in Nevada and the clinical program director of the Nevada Pediatric Access Program with the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. She has been in the mental health field for more than 20 years, working in mental health and community agencies, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, non-for-profit agencies, and private practice.

She previously served as the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs' integrated healthcare program coordinator and a lecturer for graduate students in the School of Social Work. In this role, she was responsible for the implementation and oversight of the integrated healthcare scholarship as well as developing and enhancing clinical courses and trainings for students and community partners. Mosby also provides clinical supervision to clinical social work interns and serves as a mentor to first-generation college students.

Mosby is currently serving a second appointed term as a member of the Nevada Commission on Behavioral Health, and she provides clinical consultation and mental health trainings throughout Southern Nevada.

Nicole Short is a clinical psychologist whose research focuses on the causes, prevention, and treatment of trauma and anxiety-related disorders.

She is particularly interested in the development and testing of cognitive behavioral digital health interventions delivered in the early aftermath of trauma (such as sexual assault) to mitigate the development of post-traumatic stress symptoms and substance use. Her work focuses on certain risk factors, such as anxiety sensitivity and sleep disturbance, and includes a variety of research methods and designs. 

Short joined the faculty at UNLV in 2022 after three years on faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She serves on the associate editorial board of Behaviour Research and Therapy.

Kara A. Christensen Pacella, an assistant professor in UNLV's Department of Psychology, is an expert in eating disorders. Her research focuses on understanding how we can improve eating disorder treatments by addressing potentially modifiable factors such as sleep, relationship dynamics, and emotion dysregulation.

Another component of her research is developing mobile health applications to meet the quickly rising need for accessible eating disorder treatments. Christensen Pacella is the co-developer of two mobile apps to treat eating disorders that are currently being tested in university students and adolescents. She has also conducted research examining how specific types of social media content (e.g., fitspiration, thinspiration) may be associated with disordered eating behaviors in young women.

Christensen Pacella is a licensed psychologist and has worked in outpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization programs for
adolescents and adults with eating disorders. She additionally is trained in providing evidence-based treatments for disorders that commonly co-occur with eating disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, sleep disorders, anxiety disorders, and depressive disorders.

Victoria Sullivan is a visiting associate professor in UNLV’s School of Dental Medicine with expertise in treating children who experience stress in clinical settings. 

Sullivan’s research interests include exploring areas of behavioral management to treat children with special needs and anxiety, as well as the use of lasers in pediatric dentistry. At UNLV, Sullivan teaches pre-clinical pediatric dentistry principles and techniques, and pediatric clinic.

A board-certified pediatric dentist, Sullivan has been actively practicing dentistry since 1996. She has had long-term affiliations with institutions including Stanford University Hospital and Kaiser Permanente, and worked with collaborative care teams focused on hematology-oncology, cleft palate, and pediatric long-term care.

Sullivan is a member of several dental associations. They include the American Dental Association and its clinical evaluation and dental licensure committees, as well as the American Association of Pediatric Dentistry and several state and local dental societies.

Jason D. Flatt is an assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Health at UNLV's School of Public Health. His most recent research works to better understand the concerns and needs of LGBTQIA+ seniors living with Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, as well as the needs of their chosen families. He also teaches courses on community based participatory research and social and behavioral health theory.

For the last decade, Flatt has leveraged his platform as a public health researcher to work as an advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community. To further the reach of his advocacy efforts in Las Vegas, he partners with the LGBT Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas Trans Pride, Nevada Alliance for Student Diversity, and the Nevada Minority Health Equity Coalition. He is also working with several Southern Nevada community leaders to create Building H.O.U.S.E. Las Vegas, a group dedicated to organizing and creating affordable and welcoming housing for LGBTQIA+ people aged 50 and older.

Flatt’s work has been featured on NPR, U.S. News & World Report, The Advocate, and Newsweek, as well as in Alzheimer's Association outreach.