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    Contact the Department of Counseling

    Email: cmhc@ung.edu
    Phone 470-239-3028
    Location: City Hall (Top Floor), 100 Main Street, Cumming, GA 30040

    Office Hours

    Academic Year
    (mid-August through April)
    Monday - Thursday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
    Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

    Summer Hours
    Monday - Thursday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
    Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

    Mission Statement

    We are a collaborative and relationally-based department that strives to engage students to become empathic, ethical, and multiculturally-competent counselors with a strong professional identity. We challenge students to enter into a process of self-exploration in order to become life-long learners who continuously evolve their personal and professional growth. Our graduates are caring, reflective practitioners with, and advocates for, all populations, including those underserved, in clinical mental health, college and university, and addiction settings.

    Administration

    Shanta Ghimire
    Shanta GhimireProfile page

    Administrative Assistant ll

    Phone470-239-3028

    Office locationCity Hall, 421, Cumming

    P. Clay Rowell
    P. Clay Rowell, Ph.D, NCC, LPC, CPCSProfile page

    Professor & Department Head

    Phone470-239-3028

    log.ung.edu/pcrowell/

    Office locationCity Hall, 413, Cumming

    Faculty

    Tristen Hyatt
    Tristen Hyatt, Ph.D., N.C.C., L.P.C.Profile page

    Assistant Professor

    Director, Community Counseling Clinic

    Office location Dahlonega

    Tiffany Kearney
    Tiffany KearneyProfile page

    Assistant Professor

    Clinical Coordinator

    Phone470-239-3028

    Office locationCity Hall, 415, Cumming

    Katie Lamberson
    Katie Lamberson, Ph.D., LPC, CRC, ACSProfile page

    Assistant Dean

    Addiction Track Coordinator

    Phone706-867-2955

    Office locationHealth and Natural Sciences, 421, Dahlonega

    Stella Michael-Makri
    Stella Michael-Makri, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, CPCS.Profile page

    Associate Professor

    Clinical Mental Health Counseling Coordinator

    Office locationCity Hall, 415, Cumming

    Christopher Pisarik
    Christopher Pisarik, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, CPCSProfile page

    Professor

    College Counseling/Student Affairs Coordinator

    Phone470-239-3028

    Office locationCity Hall, 415, Cumming

    Paul Smith
    Paul Smith, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, ACSProfile page

    Assistant Professor

    Office locationCity Hall, 413, Cumming

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