• Stefanie Benesh
    Stefanie Benesh, M.A., LMFT (she/her/hers)
    Counseling Services

    Clinical Counselor | Group Coordinator

    Stefanie Benesh, M.A. LMFT

    Stefanie is a Licensed Marriage (Couples) & Family Therapist (LMFT). She focuses on how systems and context influence your current experience and helps connect you to resources to feel more engaged in your life. She works from a Narrative, Experiential, Solutions-Focused lens centered around you as the expert on your life. Her objective is to empower you to develop your own goals and support you in making them happen.

  • Professional portrait of Elizabeth Halama
    Elizabeth Halama, MS, LPC-IT (she/her/hers)
    Counseling Services

    Clinical Counselor

    Betsy is a Licensed Professional Counselor-in-Training at Counseling Services.  She works with clients with a variety of presenting challenges including depression and anxiety, adjustment to college, grief, relationship concerns and identity development. Her work with clients is guided by Person-Centered, Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral frameworks.

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    Paula Chiara, M.S., LPC (she/her/hers)
    Counseling Services

    Clinical Counselor | Outreach Coordinator

    Paula is a Licensed Professional Counselor and outreach coordinator.  Paula’s goal is to provide a safe space for students to feel comfortable in the counseling relationship. She works with clients with a variety of presenting challenges. Her work with clients is guided by Person-Centered and Existential frameworks as well as Attachment, Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral theories.

  • Katy Teska
    Katy Teska
    Communication Sciences and Disorders

    Academic Department Associate

  • Graduate Assistant EDI, Samantha Foss
    Samantha Clare Foss
    Diversity

    Graduate Assistant for EDI

  • Professional portrait of Harucha Aly-Greenwold
    Harucha Aly-Greenwold, M.S., M.A., LPC-IT (she/her/hers)
    Counseling Services

    Clinical Counselor

    Harucha is an Indonesian native with professional interest in multi racial/multi-cultural counseling, Positive Psychology, Social Justices and Humanistic-Existential perspectives. She has experience working with different kind of population and issues including mood and anxiety disorders, LGBTQ+, grief, identity, trauma, abuse, spiritual, adjustment concerns and navigating career uncertainties.

  • Ralph Schnieder
    Ralph Schnieder Emeritus
    English
  • Professional portrait of Noah Terrell
    Noah Terrell, M.S., LPC-IT (he/him/his) Alum
    Counseling Services

    Clinical Counselor

    Noah is a Licensed Professional Counselor-In-Training. He views the counseling process as a collaborative effort between the counselor and client, and empowers clients to make confident decisions for their benefit. Placing a large emphasis on the counseling relationship, he works through a person centered, cognitive behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, and solutions-focused framework

  • Roxanne Backowski
    Roxanne Backowski (she/her)
    McIntyre Library

    Associate Professor | Associate Director for User Services and Operations

  • Professional portrait of Lauren Novak
    Lauren Novak, Psy.D. (she/her/hers)
    Counseling Services

    Psychologist

    Lauren is a pre-licensed psychologist with a PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Nova Southeastern University. Through her work in community mental health and inpatient settings, she has developed a collaborative and flexible therapeutic style that is person-centered and trauma informed. Lauren believes in the incredible power of human connection, empathy, and compassion to foster growth and resilience.

  • Scott Bailey-Hartsel
    Dr. Scott Bailey-Hartsel, Ph.D.
    Chemistry and Biochemistry

    Professor

  • Frederick King
    Frederick King, Ph.D. Emeritus
  • Lori Snyder
    Lori Snyder Emeritus
  • Garry Running
    Garry Running
    Geography and Anthropology

    Professor Emeritus

  • Silviana Amethyst
    Dr. Silviana Amethyst, Ph.D.
    Mathematics

    Associate Professor

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      If you need to get in contact with me, please write to my department chair, Abra Brisbin, at brisbia@uwec.edu to ask for my email address.

      Students: you can find my email in Canvas / our course syllabus.
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