Merle Keitel

Merle Keitel is a Professor in the Department of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Fordham University's Graduate School of Education. With over 30 years of experience teaching counseling and psychology trainees, she is a licensed psychologist who has worked in diverse mental health settings including college counseling centers, VA hospitals, and private practice.

Her research focuses on health psychology, eating disorders, infertility, PCOS, and women's mental health. She has published extensively on these topics, including co-editing the second edition of The Handbook of Counseling Women (2017) and co-authoring Counseling Women with Breast Cancer (2000).

• 2017 - Weight stigma, PCOS distress, and family responses to eating disorders
• 2016 - Family caregiving in breast cancer
• 2015 - PCOS quality of life
• 2011 - Lupus treatment adherence

Dr. Keitel has received the Scanlon Award and James C. Hansen Humanitarian Award. She advises doctoral students in areas like Eating Disorders, Family Mental Health, and Women's Issues, and teaches graduate courses in counseling theory and clinical practice.