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Mission Statement
The Student Health Services provides high-quality, cost-effective health care and mental health counseling with an emphasis on health education and wellness initiatives to promote and enhance student success.
Meet the Staff

M.S. in Health and Human Performance from the University of Montana
Hometown: Big Sandy, MT
Favorite Hobbies: Outdoor activities—running, biking, golfing, walking my dogs; reading, baking
Favorite Quote: Seal says his mantra is “strength through vulnerability”. Pretty much sums it up for me!

Infection Prevention & Accreditation Specialist/Medical Director
Favorite Hobbies: Quilting and time alone
Favorite Quote: Philippines 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

Hobbies: Reading, gardening, sewing, hiking and spending time with my family.
Favorite Quote: "Too often we underestimate the power of touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, a honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo Buscaglia

Bachelors in Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counseling/Prevention & Psychology from University of South Dakota
Hometown: Helena, MT
Favorite Hobbies: hiking and fishing
Favorite Quote: It’s not the mountains we conquer but ourselves. Sir Edmond Hillary

Master’s Degrees in Mental Health Counseling and Addiction Counseling both from the University of Great Falls
Hometown: Peerless, MT
Favorite Hobbies: Spending time with family and friends, attending live events, music collecting, and travelling
Favorite Quote: “What is most personal is most universal.” Carl Rogers

Professor, Department of Biological and Physical Sciences
Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin
Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin
Favorite Hobbies: Tennis, Mountain Biking and Hiking in Deserts and Mountains
Favorite Quote: What you learn from a life in science is the vastness of our ignorance

St. Olaf College, Bachelor’s of Nursing
Hometown: Mound, MN
Hobbies: runnning, hiking, camping, cooking, reading

Hometown: Drummond, MT
Hobbies: Outdoor sports, reading, collecting tea pots and time with family
Motto: Just breathe; it’s the first thing we do when we enter the world and the last thing we do when we leave it

PhD, CRC, CLCP, IPEC, PCLC
Counselor Candidate
Professor, Department of Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling
Hometown: Brainerd, MN
Favorite Quote: “If there is no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Teresa