Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Melanie Olivas Longhurst
Melanie Olivas Longhurst, Ph.D., M.Ed.

Assistant Professor
Psychology Training Director

Dr. Melanie Longhurst is an assistant professor, licensed clinical psychologist, and psychology training director in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Longhurst is also the site training director for the El Paso Psychology Internship Consortium (EPPIC).

Erika Pereda, PsyD
Erika Pereda, PsyD

Assistant Professor

Psychology Fellow Training Director

Dr. Erika Pereda is an Assistant Professor and licensed clinical psychologist at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. She serves as the program director for our fellowship post-doc program and supports other training programs within the Psychiatry Department.

Angelica Dominguez, Psy.D., LP
Angelica Dominguez, Psy.D., LP

Assistant Professor

Psychology TCHATT Training Director

Dr. Angelica Dominguez is an assistant professor and licensed psychologist. She provides outpatient psychotherapy services to adults and children, as well as clinical supervision for the psychology trainees in the Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) program. Dr. Dominguez also enjoys providing teaching experiences and clinical supervision to psychiatric trainees. 

 

Staff

Monica De La Torre, M.A., LPC
Monica De La Torre, M.A., LPC    

Sr. Mental Health Clinician

EAP Director

Monica is a Senior Mental Health Clinician licensed in the state of Texas with 16 years of experience providing in-person and online mental health and behavioral counseling for children, adolescents, and adults. She joined the Department of Psychiatry at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso in 2023 after working in the TTUHSC Pediatric Department for 15 years. She provides therapy services through the Texas Tech Health El Paso Employee and Resident Assistance Programs, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) and the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TXYDSRN). The programs include PeriPan, which provides perinatal mental telehealth services, Rural TelePsych for Youth (RTY), which provides services to children and their parents in areas within Texas where they don’t have access to mental health providers, and Activ8: Behavioral Activation Strategies for Teens, which is a brief telehealth program targeted at improving depression.  She also provides patient care to adults, adolescents and children through the Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic.

Steven Dabbs, LMFT
Steven Dabbs, LMFT

Sr. Mental Health Clinician

Steven Dabbs is a Sr. Mental Health Clinician at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. He provides counseling services to the public at our outpatient clinic and supports other training programs within the Psychiatry Department.

 

Danielle Guerrero, B.A.
Danielle Guerrero, B.A.

Program Coordinator

danielle.i.guerrero@ttuhsc.edu

915-215-4118