Ms. Samella Berry Abdullah, LCSW, Ph.D.

2892 East Park Avenue

Tallahassee, Florida 32301
(850) 339-3723 samella.abdullah@gmail.com

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:
2005- present AFI Counseling Associates – A private practice of consultation
and psychotherapy, owned and operated by Samella B. Abdullah,
principal therapist and supervising clinician.- Tallahassee, FL

2003-2005 Children’s Home Society, Family Connections – Tallahassee, FL

Provided clinical services to children, adolescents and their (biological, foster
and/or adoptive) families.

2001-2003 Community Intervention Center-Tallahassee, Florida

Provided clinical services on-site to school children of Tallahassee.

1979-1999 Abdullah and Associates – A private practice in Counseling,

Psychotherapy and Consultation – Chicago, Illinois
Provided clinical services to individuals, families and groups.
Provided consultations, workshops and seminars to public and private agencies,
businesses and corporations.

1977-1978 N.A.S.W./I.S.C.S.W., Illinois Chapter, Assistant Administrator for

Project '77 to promote House Bill 921 for “Freedom of Access”
regarding clinical social work reimbursement/third party payment.

1972.1977 City of Chicago, Illinois – Bureau of Mental Health

As Coordinator, I supervised services for Children and Adolescent Services at
Englewood Mental Health Center (EMHC). As Intake Coordinator, supervised
and assigned all patient referrals to clinical staff’s for intake interviews and
clinical assignments.
I subsequently accepted the position of Center Director of Woodlawn Mental
Health Center, where I administered the program and supervised clinical, para-
professional and clerical staff (receptionists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social
workers and community mental health workers). Collaborated on services with
City Administrators, community organizations, and agencies and met regularly
with the Community Mental Health Advisory Board.

1962.1971 Several Agencies, Chicago, Illinois

King Family Center –Director of Casework Services – 1970-‘72
Potential School for Exceptional Children – 1969-1972
Mau Glo School for the Retarded – Consultant 1971
Chicago Heart Association – Consultant 1969
United Charities of Chicago, Legal Aid - 1962-1964
St. Leonard’s Half-Way House for Ex-Convicts – 1966
Northwestern Univ. Medical School Clinics- 1964-1969
January 2009

Abdullah, Samella B.
Municipal Government – Washington, D.C.
 Bureau of Mental Health – 1960-1962 Public Welfare – 1959-1960
EDUCATION
1976.1978 HEED University , Hollywood, Florida
Degree – Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology
Post Graduate Studies
DePaul University, Law & Community Development – Chicago
University of Chicago, SSA Summer Program, Administration
Loyola University, School of Social Work, Supervision –Chicago
Yale University, School of Alcohol Studies – New Haven,
Connecticut (Recipient of D.C. Tuberculosis Assoc Scholarship)
1956-1957&
1958-1959 Howard University, School of Social Work, Washington, D.C.
Degree of Master of Social Work – Specialty, Psychiatric
(Recipient of a two-year NIMH Stipend)
Practicums: 1956-57 at D.C. Home for Aged
1958-59 at St. Elizabeth's Hosp.-Mentally Ill

1955.1956 University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work, Pittsburgh, PA

Community Problems and Rehabilitation

1951.1955 Howard University, College of Liberal Arts, Washington, D.C.

Degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology
(Recipient of 4 year Work Scholarship)

1947.1951 John Marshall High School, Chicago, Illinois – Diploma

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
2001.2004 Florida A & M University, Psychology Dept. - Adjunct Professor

1987.1995 Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, Illinois - Professor

1978.1985 University of Illinois in Chicago, Jane Addams College of Social Work,

Visiting Lecturer

Governors’ State University, Park Forest, Illinois - Community Prof.

1966-1977 Field Instructor (Gratis): Univ. Of Chicago, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, and Loyola
Univ. Schools of Social Work in Chicago, Illinois

1964.1969 Northwestern University, Medical School, Chicago, Illinois – Instructor with

Distinction as Preceptor. Provided in-patient counseling services to patients
hospitalized and those treated in out-patient specialty clinics(asthma, gynecology,
obstetrics, pulmonary, renal and cardiac) at the Northwestern Medical School’s Clinic.
Provided consultations to administrative staff, nurses, physicians, psychology and
psychiatry students, and also actively participated in patient-staffings and medical
rounds.
January 2009