She serves as the Associate Director for Training at the American University Counseling Center where she provides individual and group therapy, crisis intervention, and outreach/consultation services to the AU community. She also oversees the center's training program, including the APA-accredited Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology. Prior to joining the Counseling Center staff in May 2016, Dr. Rusch worked as a Staff Clinician in a college counseling center in Madison, WI. Her areas of clinical interest include: integrative psychotherapy (person-centered, interpersonal, psychodynamic, multicultural, and emotion-focused approaches), grief and loss issues, trauma and recovery, family of origin concerns, body-focused repetitive behaviors, substance use issues, and clinical supervision and training.