Steve Brown, Ph.D., Director

 After more than twenty years as a Georgia Bulldog, where he served as Director of the Counseling and Testing Center, Steve learned where the really good University was and is the new Director of ETSU’s Counseling Center.  Steve completed his graduate work at Oklahoma State University.  He has been active professionally at both state and national levels, and has been honored to serve as President of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors and as Chair of the American College Personnel Association’s Commission on Counseling and Psychological Services.  His greatest enjoyment is working with students through counseling and teaching.  It is his belief that all students would benefit from availing themselves of Counseling Center services as they help students find happiness in living in much the same way that academics help students prepare for the working world.   He has special interests in helping students learn to make positive decisions, particularly in relation to “best fit” occupations and lifestyles.  Steve is also interested in working with individuals and couples on relationship issues.  He often challenges people as to where they learned to have good relationships.  Steve’s hope is that every ETSU student will utilize the Counseling Center to help improve the quality of their life experience.    

  

Davis Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Director 

Davis is a Licensed Psychologist and is sometimes referred to as "the guy with the pony-tail."  Davis has a master's degree in Counseling from Appalachian State University and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Memphis.   He has worked at ETSU since January of 2000 and before that worked for four and a half years at the Counseling Center at the University of the South.  His responsibilities at the ETSU Counseling Center include coordinating the Peer Career Center and the Counseling Center training program.  He has experience working with students on a wide range of concerns and problems.  He is particularly interested in helping ETSU students who are experiencing concerns related to career indecision, depression, relationship problems, grief and stress.  His goal in working with students is to help them become more aware of underlying issues that can contribute to the maladaptive patterns that keep them from making positive changes.  In 2005 Dr. Smith was a recipient of the award for Dedication to the University/Department /and Division  from the Student Affairs Staff Development Committee.

 

Jan Henley, Ph.D., Counseling Psychologist (Licensed in Tennessee)                                   

Jan received her Ph.D. in counseling from the University of Texas at Austin and joined the staff of the ETSU Counseling Center in 1990.  Jan provides personal counseling for students in individual, couples, or family sessions; conducts therapy and personal growth groups; presents outreach programs and supervises graduate interns.  Jan also offers a minor rotation in clinical hypnosis for pre-doctoral psychology interns from the Veteran's Administration.  She studied with Milton H. Erickson, M.D., and is interested in continuing his pragmatic, solution-focused and action-oriented psychotherapy with emphasis on client strengths and skills.  Like him, she believes in the snowball effect of small change.  Dr. Henley also received training from Eric Berne and Virginia Satir; uses concepts and techniques from Transactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy, and Rogerian Client-centered Psychotherapy.  Her special mental health interests:  discovering and promoting skills needed for coping with stress, managing anxiety, resolving interpersonal difficulties, optimizing performance and achieving happiness.

 

 

 

 Counselor and Coordinator of CAASV Programs

 

 

 

 

 

Connie Yakley, Executive Aide/Office Manager

Connie has been with the Counseling Center for twelve years.  As Executive Aide and Office Manager she is responsible to the Director for managing the daily functions of the Center; she supervises support personnel; hires, trains  and is supervisor to all work-study students and interns, makes travel arrangements for professional staff, processes time cards; assists with compiling and reconciling budget reports; routes mail and creates all purchasing requisitions; creates and maintains the Counseling Center web site and provides technical support to the Counseling Center and Peer Career Center's computers and audio devices.  In 2006 Connie was a recipient of the award for Dedication to the University/Department /and Division from the Student Affairs Staff Development Committee.  She was also the ETSU featured employee for the month of May, 2006.

 

Amy Nelms, Receptionist/Secretary II

Amy is the welcoming voice that greets visitors to the Counseling Center.  She has been with the Counseling Center for eight years.   Amy schedules client appointments and is responsible for answering telephones, documenting appointments for the  members of the clinical staff using Titanium software.   Amy does desktop publishing, and she also maintains the Counseling Center database, client files and produces information necessary for the monthly reports.  In 2006 Amy was the recipient of the Staff Development Committee’s annual staff recognition award for her dedication to students.