Stony Brook Athletics Welcomes Dr. Danielle Merolla as Inaugural Director of Athletics Mental Health Services

STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Stony Brook Athletics is happy to welcome Dr. Danielle Merolla as the department’s inaugural Director of Athletics Psychological Health Providers at Counseling and Psychological Companies (CAPS), productive November 28, a shared position concerning CAPS and Athletics.
 
“There is not a higher priority in our office than the psychological health and fitness and wellbeing of our scholar-athletes. The addition of Danielle to our workforce demonstrates that dedication and additional enables us to give the highest level of guidance for our university student-athletes who have to have it,” explained Director of Athletics Shawn Heilbron.
 
In her part as Director of Athletics Mental Wellness Products and services, Dr. Merolla will be responsible for doing the job right with the sports activities medicine office and Stony Brook’s scholar-athletes, delivering psychological assessments, psychotherapy, and counseling in collaboration with CAPS. She will boost all round well being and wellness of the college student-athlete populace, and the capacity to prosper, the two in and out of their activity.  
 
She will help the athletics medication section with generating and implementing training and training plans for the Athletics section and scholar-athletes. Dr. Merolla will aid with acquiring psychological health insurance policies and processes inside of Athletics and arranging and supporting department mental wellness assistance groups and gatherings.
 
“Adding Dr. Danielle Merolla as the inaugural Director of Athletics Mental Wellbeing Companies elevates the psychological well being care of our university student-athletes to the upcoming degree. It presents a reliable person to assistance build a psychological well being method as an alternative of just taking care of fast demands. Dr. Merolla will be a good addition to function with our sporting activities psychologist and sports medicine department to handle all psychological health and fitness demands and build the greatest environment for the college student-athletes to be effective in and out of their sport. I seem ahead to functioning with her and including even a lot more programming and assets to the section in mental well being!” explained Associate Athletic Director for Athletics Medication Elizabeth Zanolli.
 
Dr. Merolla initially joined Stony Brook as the Assistant Director of Outreach and Local community Based mostly Interventions at CAPS in 2017. She was then appointed Affiliate Director for the Heart for Prevention and Outreach in 2018 exactly where she lent leadership and way in the growth, coordination, and implementation of various mental overall health and suicide prevention initiatives that had a sizeable impression on the Stony Brook campus neighborhood.
 
She has spearheaded initiatives on campus this sort of as the Walk of Hope, Let us Discuss, Dilemma, Persuade and Refer (QPR) etc. Dr. Merolla has also supplied many trainings and consultations to different Tutorial and Pupil Affairs companions and solid potent connections with them.