In the fall of 2024, Cornell Tech welcomed a counselor dedicated to students on its campus in New York City, expanding efforts to enhance mental health support. The new clinician, Sarah Rubenstein-Gillis, now provides mental health services for Cornell Tech students and others in select New York City-based programs.

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), a department within Cornell Health in Ithaca, has offered mental health support to students at Cornell’s Ithaca campus for decades. In recent years, its “Embedded Therapist” program has also placed clinicians like Rubenstein-Gillis in satellite locations across the university, like the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

A native New Yorker, Rubenstein-Gillis grew up in the Catskills/Hudson Valley area. She received an undergraduate degree in community studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, before moving back to New York. She soon settled in Ithaca and completed a master’s degree in social work at Syracuse University.

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