Carroll College Counseling Services is here to help you! Counselors Mike Franklin and Laurie Gaffney are skilled in working with students with issues from depression to stress; from relationships to eating disorders. Their offices are located in the Wellness Center in the basement of Guadalupe Hall. If at anytime you feel depressed, anxious, worried, or just need someone to talk to, you can stop by or make an appointment by calling (406) 447-5441.
Counseling Staff:
K. Mike Franklin, EdD, LCPC
Director of Counseling Servicesand Gracie... "Carroll's K-9 Comforter No. 1"
Mike is in his seventh year at Carroll and loves it more each year. After working with young adults for his entire career, he finds his current interactions with Carroll College students to be his favorite. He enjoys helping them transition from adolescents to young adults, from living at home to living independently, from an initial idea of who they are and what they want to be to a more focused grounded knowledge of themselves.
Mike's educational background includes an Engineering Degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a Master of Divinity Degree from Duke University, a Master of Sacred Theology from Yale University, and a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University in Sarasota. He is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor.
Prior to coming to Carroll, Mike served as a United Methodist Pastor and a Navy Chaplain for 18 years. Though Mike hails from southern Montana (a small geographic area known as South Carolina), he has lived in eleven different states and in the Republic of Panama. Mike also served two years in Her Majesty's Royal Navy in England as an exchange officer with Great Britain. He taught at the undergraduate level prior to coming to Carroll and currently teaches an Alpha Seminar class in the fall and a psychology class, Emotional Intelligence, in the spring.
Mike enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, kayaking, and hanging out with friends. Along with his membership in the Bankrupt Brain Trust and Hauser Boulevard literary Society.
Laurie Gaffney, LCSW
Associate Director of Counseling
Carroll College welcomes this new face to the Wellness Center. As a previous counselor at Carroll College, Gaffney is very familiar with the campus atmosphere.
She is a licensed social worker who obtained her undergraduate degree from MSU Bozeman working with physical and learning disabilities in children. She then obtained her graduate degree in Social Work from University of Iowa. Laurie came back to join Carroll because she absolutely loves Carroll students. Her favorite Carroll activities include Mass, graduation, and the annual student induction ceremony.
Her hobbies include walking, hiking, canoeing, and fishing. "My hope for new students coming to Carroll," she said," is to know themselves better and to leave with as little anxiety as possible."
Linda Hoenigsberg
Counseling Intern
Linda is our new Counseling Intern who is serving as a fully capable third counselor for Carroll Students. If you can't get an appointment with Mike or Laurie, or simply want to see a new face, you can come in and see Linda (the only difference is that some case info will be shared with Laurie Gaffney for supervisor purposes, but all confidentiality will be kept as usual).
Linda is a Carroll College Alumni from 2006 and is now a third year graduate student at the CACREP Mental Health Counseling Program. All she has left to complete is her many internship hours which she is doing partially at the Wellness Center and partially at Florence Crittenton. Linda is very glad to be back at Carroll because she has a huge passion for working with college students and loves Carroll students especially.
Linda's hobbies include painting, drawing, quilting and skyping with her many grandkids (she has nine of them). Linda has relied heavily through the years on her favorite quote by George Elliot which says, "It's never too late to become what you might have been." So take her word for it and follow this quote: it's never too late to follow your dreams!