Director, Student Support and Wellness
To connect further, please email Rebecca at rcogan@ithaca.edu or call the Office of ICare and Student Support at (607)274-7731.
Meet Our Staff
Rebecca Cogan Carroll, LMHC (she/her/hers)
Kayla Katsman, MPH, CHES (she/her/hers)
Health Promotion Specialist, Center for Health Promotion
I started working for Ithaca College in August of 2024. My interest in health promotion started in my undergrad when I was a peer educator for the Health and Wellness Prevention office at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. After graduating with my BS in Community Health, I worked in several non-profits providing drug and alcohol education to high school, middle school, and elementary school students. After working with community collations, I realized how much I loved working with college students, and I decided to go back to school and get my Master's in Public Health to work in higher education. I started at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and was able to have a graduate assistantship in the wellness promotion office. I gained incredible valuable skills that I apply to this job every day.
I am passionate about well-being and the different facets it entails. I am a public health nerd have studied the effects drugs and alcohol can have on your body and mental health during both my undergrad and graduate careers.
Sophie Perkins, LMHC 9 she/her/hers)
Health Promotion specialist, center for health promotion
I was hired at Ithaca College in January 2024 and was previously working as a mental health counselor at CAPS before transitioning to my new position at the Center for Health Promotion. I attended SUNY New Paltz for both my undergraduate degree in psychology, with a minor in sociology, and my graduate degree in clinical mental health counseling. I returned to the Ithaca area in 2020 and worked for three years at an outpatient substance use clinic; during this time, I shaped my values of harm reduction, dismantling systemic barriers to wellness, and addressing the needs of the whole person rather than just the symptoms. I consider myself to be an intersectional feminist, an anticapitalist, an advocate, and a humanist. My professional interest areas include: sexual violence, domestic violence, substance use & harm reduction, chronic mental health disorders, the relationship between alienation and mental health, sociological barriers to wellness, and existential philosophy and theory.
In my personal time I love spending time with animals (especially cats), reading excessively long historical fiction novels, yoga and meditation, and video games (I just can’t get away from Night City!).
Student Health Ambassadors
(From left to right)
Anastasiia Gubina, Jacquelyn Reaves, Asata Rothblatt
Geselle Dominguez
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, CENTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION
I have been part of the Ithaca community, both on and off-campus, for the better part of 15 years, and now currently work here at the departments of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and the Center for Health Promotion (CHP) as their administrative assistant.
I am also a native New Yorker to the southern tier of upstate NY, and alumna to Ithaca College. Graduating in 2018 with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, and minors in Counseling and Latino/a Studies, I would later the join the college as a professional staff member that same year at the Center for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Social Change, later known as the BIPOC Unity Center (c. 2023). I currently work at the college by providing administrative and logistical support for CAPS and CHP, beginning April 2025. I am also an active member of the Student Emergency Relief fund committee for the 25-26 academic year.
Outside of the office, I identify as a self-taught mixed media artist and chronic hobbyist, with passions for music, makings, and social justice spaces that are based in a community-centered value. You can catch me in the basement of the Hammond Health Center blasting a Spotify playlist (or two), or talking about my most recent art showing.