Jeff Fearnside is the author of two full-length books and two chapbooks, most recently "Ships in the Desert" (SFWP, 2022), winner of several post-publication awards, including a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award. Other awards for his writing include a Grand Prize in the Santa Fe Writers Project’s Literary Awards Program, the Mary Mackey Short Story Prize from the National League of American Pen Women, and an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship.

Kathleen Phillips, MCoun, LPC, NCC, serves as the Clinic Director, Internship Coordinator, and Instructor in the Master of Counseling program. In addition to teaching and supervising graduate students, she maintains a private counseling practice where she specializes in supporting adult women. As both a practicing counselor and a proud graduate of this program, Kathleen brings her professional and personal experience to support and collaborate with students as they begin their counseling careers.

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