Christie Leslie

Christie Leslie is a Child and Family Therapist and Clinical Care Staff member at Sarah A. Reed Children's Center since August 2017, and an Adjunct Lecturer at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College since August 2022. Prior experience includes Direct Care Worker at Southwood Psychiatric Hospital, Inc., where responsibilities included maintaining a therapeutic environment and crisis intervention, and serving as a Resident Assistant at Penn State University, where educational programs were created for ethnically diverse students. Christie also worked as a Research Assistant in the Psychology Research Department at Penn State Erie, focusing on language studies and behavioral experiments, and as a Classroom Assistant at Noah's Ark Daycare, overseeing educational activities for children. Christie holds a Master of Arts in Applied Clinical Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, both from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.