Name: Deirdre O'Sullivan

Title: Associate Professor of Education (Rehabilitation & Human Services)

Department: Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education

Phone: 814-863-4594

Email: dmo11@psu.edu

Office address: 328 CEDAR Building

Directory entry: https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-deirdre-osullivan

Deirdre O'Sullivan is an associate professor in the Penn State College of Education. She is the current coordinator for the Rehabilitation & Human Services (RHS) major and the coordinator for the RHS minor and the Addictions and Recovery minor programs.

She teaches and advises students in both RHS undergraduate and Counselor Education and Counselor Education and Supervision graduate programs.

O'Sullivan's research focuses on counseling interventions for people concurrently recovering from Chronic Illness and Disability (CID), Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and trauma, particularly among those re-entering their communities post-incarceration. She is affiliated with the Penn State Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction as well as an advisory board member of the Restorative Justice Initiative.