Assistant director and head of clinical services named

Rita Klein of Blacksburg, clinical psychologist at the Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center at Virginia Tech, has been promoted to assistant director and head of clinical services at the center.

In her new position, Klein will provide leadership and oversight of clinical-service delivery functions. The Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center is the primary psychological counseling facility for Virginia Tech students. It also provides related consulting services to university faculty and staff members regarding student concerns.

Robert C. Miller, director of the Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center, describes Klein as "an experienced individual and group therapist and a highly sought-out clinical supervisor in our training program. In recent years Rita has been instrumental in developing new client screening and intake procedures, which have been well received by our consumers and have enhanced our service delivery processes."

Klein received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. from Fordham University.

Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech has grown to become among the largest universities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Today, Virginia Tech’s eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through teaching, research, and outreach activities and to fulfilling its vision to be among the top research universities in the nation. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 28,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 180 academic degree programs.