Counseling & Health Services

Linda S. Jones, EdD
Linda Jones is the assistant dean of counseling and health services. A licensed psychologist, she earned a doctorate in counseling psychology from Boston University. Her areas of interest include life transitions, depression, anxiety, bereavement, women's issues, gay/lesbian issues, and sexual assault.

Elisa Castillo, PhD
Elisa Castillo is the assistant director and training director at counseling and health services. A licensed psychologist, she earned her BA in psychology from the University of Puerto Rico, and her MA and PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She has more than 10 years of experience working with college students, dealing with personal, relational and mental health concerns. She is interested in multicultural counseling, brief therapy, existential and relational therapy, and clinical supervision. She provides services in English and Spanish.

Karen Hruska, MA, LMHC
Karen Hruska is the health education coordinator. She specializes in substance abuse counseling, health and wellness psychology, relationship issues, and helping students transform stuck behaviors. She is known for her energy and enthusiasm in helping students set and achieve their goals. Having taught at the college level for years, she understands what it takes to be successful in and out of the classroom. Along with individual counseling, she does presentations for classes or student groups.

Kimberly Daly, BSN, MSN, FNP
Kim Daly, our health services coordinator, is a family nurse practitioner and assistant director of counseling and health services. She received a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, and earned a master's degree in nursing from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has worked in internal medicine, pediatrics and at a high school-based health clinic. Her interests lie in working with adolescent and young adult populations to promote responsible choices and healthy lifestyles.

Joan Sweeney, MSN, FNP 
Joan Sweeney is a nurse practitioner in counseling and health services. She also coordinates the immunization compliance program. She joined counseling and health services in 2004 after working in a community health setting. She attended the University of Southern Maine where she earned a bachelor's degree in nursing and later completed a master's degree in family and community health nursing from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Her professional interest is women's health.

John Beaulieu, MD
John Beaulieu is the supervising physician in counseling and health services. He attended Salem State and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He has worked here since 1990, and his professional specialty is internal medicine.

Margaret Muise, RN 
Peggy Muise is the staff nurse in counseling and health services. She attended the Salem Hospital School of Nursing and is certified in college health. She has worked at Salem State since 1986, and her specialization is college health.

Lynne Gunter-Silva
Lynne Gunter-Silva is one of counseling and health services' administrative assistants. She has worked at Salem State since 1975, first in the affirmative action/personnel office and has been with counseling and health services since 1983. She earned an associate's degree in secretarial sciences from North Shore Community College and additional certificates from Salem State and North Shore Community College, and is particularly interested in providing excellent customer service to our students.

Juliet Carty Greene
Juliet Carty Greene is an administrative assistant for counseling and health services, and has worked at Salem State since 2006. She came to us with a background in office support from her experience at a community health center. As one of our administrative assistants, Juliet coordinates patient intake and assists with the daily operations of a busy healthcare facility, handling confidential patient health information with sensitivity and care. Juliet is working towards a degree at Salem State University.

Counseling Graduate Trainees for 2011- 2012

Yasmine Saleh is a post-doctoral fellow at counseling and health services. She grew up in Cairo, Egypt where she received her undergraduate degree. Prior to moving to the US, she worked for many years in management positions. More recently, she earned a master’s degree in mental health counseling from UMASS-Boston. She worked in an outpatient substance clinic when she transitioned to a doctoral program at MSPP. She trained at different sites while completing her studies, including the counseling center at UMASS-Dartmouth.  Her interests are broad and include identity issues especially the GLBTQ students, family and significant relationships, anxiety, depression and loss. As a career-changer and an immigrant, she is very interested in transitions and adjustment to new situation. She is fluent in English and Arabic.

Rebecca Forkner is a postdoctoral fellow at counseling and health services.  She earned her BA in psychology and MA and PhD in clinical psychology from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.  She has several years of experience working with college students, and is particularly drawn to helping students cope with anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship difficulties, reduce self-harm, increase distress tolerance, and make peace with suffering.  She describes herself as primarily integrative, drawing from a number of different therapy styles and techniques.

Christina Go is one our counseling interns in counseling and health services.  She is currently a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. She did her undergraduate at UCLA and has a Masters degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a second Masters from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is interested in the mind body connection, cultural issues, acceptance and commitment therapy, humanistic and object relations therapy, and fostering a strong, kind, and empathic therapeutic environment.  She is fluent in both English and Korean.  

David Rainen is a clinical intern at counseling and health services.  He earned his Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Clark University and was awarded his Masters in Mental Health Counseling from the State University of New York at Albany.  Currently he is a fourth year doctoral student at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.  He has worked in various clinical settings over the last 6 years, including previous time spent doing college counseling.  He is interested in substance abuse counseling, brief therapy, as well as individual, couples, and family therapy.