Dr. Adriana Kipper-Smith served as clinical faculty between 2015 and 2018, rejoining the department as faculty in 2024. She is a licensed clinical psychologist who completed her undergraduate degree at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos and master’s degree in developmental psychology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, both in Brazil. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University and completed a predoctoral internship at Vanderbilt/Veteran Affairs Consortium of Professional Psychology. Her postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology was at the Vanderbilt University Counseling Center.

Dr. Kipper-Smith served as clinical director at the Vanderbilt University Counseling Center, where she spent 12 years before joining the Work/Life Connections—EAP team in 2022. She is part of the Faculty and Physicians Wellness Program (FPWP), and she focuses on promoting wellbeing in the workplace. She also facilitates process groups for psychiatry residents. Dr. Kipper-Smith’s clinical research has been focused on psychodynamic psychotherapy, biofeedback, mind-body approaches, and wellbeing. 
 

Brooke Becker, MD joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2024 after completing General Psychiatry residency at the University of North Carolina, where she served as a Chief Resident, and medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Becker primarily works within the Women's Mental Health program to see perinatal patients from pre-conception to postpartum, as well as other women's mental health concerns related to the menstrual cycle and perimenopause.