Counseling Center

Welcome to Counseling

The Counselors at Pierce College
are trained in educational planning, career planning and personal counseling. Our goal is to help students clarify their goals, realistically evaluate their own strengths and challenges, and learn to develop their planning skills to achieve their goals. We recognize that this is a process and doesn't happen in one visit.

When you come to Counseling, you can expect that we will help you learn to take charge of your own academic career, learn to make good decisions, and learn to plan so you will be successful. We won't be making your schedule for you or telling you what to do. This might be different from your high school counseling experience. But we are committed to working with you until you feel you understand what you need to do to reach your goal.

Counseling Student Learning Outcomes

The Counseling Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) are based on the individual academic counseling appointments in the General Counseling office. Students come to counseling with differing levels of goal definition, a wide range of academic preparation, varying degrees of specificity in their requests, and different levels of understanding about the higher education system.

Here is what we hope to accomplish with you, depending on your circumstances and needs:

• Clarification of Issues/Problems

The student will understand and/or articulate the need to define clearly the issue to be addressed in Counseling before moving on to the next steps.

• Realistic Self-Assessment

The student will be aware of and/or able to critically evaluate and integrate personal factors (interest, potential, limitations, financial, family, etc.) that may influence educational/career decisions.

• Educational Planning

The student will be aware of and/or able to create and put into effect a plan of action to reach an educational goal (integrating self knowledge, program demands and requirements).

Counselors

Rudy Dompe
Counseling Chair
Academic/Personal/Honors Counseling
Fluent in Spanish

Robin Lindsay-Sawyer
Academic/Career/Personal/International Students/Veterans Counseling
Personal Development 8 & 20 Instructor

Alyce Miller-Fleming
Academic/Veterans Counseling
Personal Development 8 & 20 Instructor

Mita Noor
Academic Counseling
Student Success Workshops Coordinator
Fluent in Hindi and Gujarati

Cristina Rodriguez
Academic/Honors Counseling
Student Success Workshops Coordinator
Personal Development 40 Instructor
Fluent in Spanish

Sheldon Roth
Academic/Personal/Career/ Veterans Counseling

Eileen Sheff
Academic/Personal Counseling

Adjunct Counselors

Edith Azizian
Academic Counseling
Fluent in Armenian

Marisol Cota
Academic/PACE Counseling
Personal Development 40 Instructor

Roberta Brodie
Academic Counseling

Eloise Crippens
Academic Counseling

Judy Godessoff
Academic Counseling

Marina Gonzalez
Academic Counseling
Personal Development 40 Instructor
Fluent in Spanish

Denise Grzesiak
Academic Counseling
Personal Development 8 Instructor

Niloufar Hakkakzadeh
Academic Counseling
Fluent in Farsi

John James
Academic Counseling

Ed Mazeika
Academic Counseling

Claudia Ramirez
Academic/Athletic Counseling
Fluent in Spanish

Colleen Rooney
Academic/Online Counseling

Sunday Salter
Academic Counseling
Personal Development 4 Instructor

Harmeet Singh
Academic Counseling
Fluent in Hindi & Punjabi