Dr. Eric Garland came to FSU in 2010 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to that, he worked as an LCSW psychotherapist and clinical supervisor at a wilderness therapy program near Asheville, NC. He holds more than a decade of clinical experience working in mental health and integrative medicine settings, and he has been trained in the conduct of clinical research through a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.

Recently, Dr. Garland received the Society for Social Work and Research’s “Outstanding Dissertation Award” for conducting a randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-oriented cognitive intervention that he developed to treat alcohol dependent adults. His research is focused on developing new interventions for stress-related conditions (like addiction and chronic pain) based on findings from the leading edge of cognitive and affective neuroscience.

Currently he teaches Theories & Models of Social Work Practice, as well as Cognitive Behavioral Social Work Practice, a course that he designed to make good use of the new interview/observation suite at the College of Social Work. In this course, his students practice cognitive-behavior therapy techniques behind a one-way mirror through which he observes them and gives them real-time feedback via a Bluetooth headset. This course provides excellent clinical training to our students.