Counseling Staff

Gail Hudson

Dean of Counseling Services

As Dean of NCSSM Counseling Services, Gail Hudson supervises the Counseling staff as they provide an array of services for NCSSM students. Gail is responsible for psychological emergencies and is on-call during all hours while NCSSM students are in residency. She also represents Counseling Services as a participant, presenter, or board member at school, community, state, and national organizations or events.

Gina Burger

Counselor

Previously serving on a college faculty, Gina Burger provides insight and information regarding the expectations and experiences of college life. In addition, with a background in disability services, Gina helps to coordinate our Counseling Services procedures by which counselors facilitate special needs testing, documentation, and accommodations. These special needs range from learning disabilities, to physical challenges, to psychological needs.

Lori Hackney

Counselor

Having worked in agencies as a social worker and assistant director, Lori Hackney provides information for students regarding available referral services and coordinates support services. She manages the Counseling Services scholarship program. Most NCSSM students apply for several scholarships, with yearly totals of offers in the millions.

Pam Oxendine

Administrative Assistant

Pam Oxendine is the Administrative Assistant for Counseling Services. Pam has a host of skills in corporate management, in marketing design, with technology, and with adolescents. She coordinates the procedures of Counseling Services, including the college application process during which over 4,000 student transcripts are mailed to colleges each year.

Joyce Rodman

Counselor

Joyce Rodman, an educator for over thirty years, and a counselor for over twenty years, coordinates the NCSSM Peer College Counselor (PCC) program. In this program, senior student leaders are trained in the steps of the college application process. Joyce supervises these students as they assist other students in their journeys to college.

Janice Webster

Counselor

Janice Webster comes to NCSSM with eighteen years of counseling experience in other public schools from k-12 . With professional experience in college recruitment, program directing, classroom teaching, and in every realm of counseling, Ms. Webster brings to NCSSM a rich and relatable expertise. Drawing on her background of striving to enhance understanding of diversity and multiculturalism, she defines the term, “equitable advocacy.”

Lamia Younes

Counselor

Lamia Younes knows the residential life of the NCSSM student well. Years ago, she lived on the NCSSM campus supervising and teaching NCSSM students while she was a Student Life Instructor. Now as a counselor, that experience provides her with valued insight into the special demands and challenges of the residential experience for the young fifteen to eighteen year old adolescents as they live away from home for the first time.