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The Counseling Center is staffed by two counselors certified by the State of Georgia's Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists as licensed professional counselors (L.P.C.).
The Staff
Counseling Director
Harriette received her Master's in Human Development and Learning from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte in 1986. She has 20 years of counseling and Student Affairs experience, of which 10 years were as Director of Counseling for Georgia Baptist College of Nursing. She became the Director of the Mercer/ Atlanta Counseling Center in January of 2001.
Julie Cannon, L.P.C. send an email
Counselor
Julie Cannon received her Master's degree in Counselor Education from the University of Alabama in 1992. She has worked as an Academic Advisor, Hospice Chaplain, and Psychotherapist & Pastoral Counselor in outpatient and inpatient settings. Julie completed two years of Clinical Pastoral Education residency training and was ordained in 2004.
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Why Seek Counseling?
Everyone experiences problems, and we often encounter situations where our usual way of handling them no longer works. We sometimes reach a point where we are unable to find solutions on our own. Not being able to find a solution to a problem simply means we are human - not crazy. Psychological upset and painful feelings are normal reactions to intense or abnormal events and are part of the natural healing process. Counseling can help facilitate this healing process.
- Counseling helps prevent small problems from becoming big ones.
- Counseling helps clients generate useful solutions to improve problems.
- Counseling helps clients learn about habits and patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving that cause problems.
- Counseling helps clients learn new, more successful habits and patterns.
- Counseling helps clients regain and rebuild confidence in their self-determined courses of action.
Mercer University counselors are prepared to assist students in a variety of personal development areas.
Common concerns for University students include - but are not limited to - the following:
- Puzzling, distressing feelings
- Self-defeating behaviors
- Low self-confidence
- Academic problems
- Getting along with others
- Sexual identity concerns
- Decision-making dilemmas
- Feelings of depression or anxiety
- Stress reduction and relaxation
- Time and task management
- Body image and issues with food
- Grief and loss
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