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May 06, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College’s Counseling Center recently hired Samuel G. Johnson ’98 as a part-time Licensed Professional Counselor for male students at the College.
Johnson graduated from the College with a bachelor’s degree in English. He completed his master’s in community counseling at Indiana Wesleyan University and his A.B.D. in counselor education at Penn State University. He will begin work in the fall semester and will counsel student two days per week on campus.
According to Dr. Suzanne Houk, director of counseling services and assistant professor of psychology, “I’m hoping that he will be able to address those issues that are germane to men.”
She added that more than 10 percent of the student body visits the College counselors each year. Houk said that students most often come to the center for counseling on depression. Johnson is particularly prepared to deal with depression since he experienced depression personally.
“I think it’s helpful just for me to voice it to people that have depression that it’s OK,” Johnson said. “It’s OK to be depressed, and it’s OK to recover from depression, and it’s OK to talk about depression.”
Houk added, “It’ll just be a way to strengthen our male students, to give them an outlet to grow emotionally.”
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