Dr. Helen Taylor is looking forward to helping students apply psychology to their experience in Valencia. She is a full-time professor and chairperson of the Psychology Department at Bellevue College, and also teaches for Eastern Washington University. During her time at Bellevue College, she has served as a Counselor, Director of Faculty Development, and Director of the Center for Liberal Arts.
Dr. Taylor loves to teach and has designed a number of courses, both face to face and online. Her areas of specialty are cross-cultural, gender, abnormal, and social psychology. This fall, she will co-teach an interdisciplinary studies course on happiness. Dr. Taylor was recognized with a Margin of Excellence teaching award and an Outstanding Faculty award from Bellevue College.
She earned a BA in International Studies from Pomona College, an MA in Counseling from Seattle University, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Washington. In 2008, she co-led a group of students with the Washington Community College Consortium for Study Abroad to Florence, Italy. She had such a great time, she just had to go again!
She credits her own experience as a study abroad student in college as one of the most formative of her life, and is very much looking forward to teaching and traveling with students in Spain.
