Barstow Community College Counselors
The Barstow Community College professional counseling staff provides essential academic advising, career counseling and life planning activities to continuing, new and returning students in order to enhance each student's expertise at Barstow. Typical areas of assistance to students may include choosing a major or career(s) appropriate to their values, interests and abilities, coping with personal issues and completion of the educational planning process to include appropriate course selection to meet requirements and personal goals. Counselors may also teach classes designed to facilitate personal and career exploration and development as well as academic survival skills. Counseling services are available during the day and selected evenings, by appointment, via email or on a drop-in basis.
Listed below are Barstow Community College's Counselors. Included are their names, email addresses and areas of specialty. Please feel free to contact a counselor via email by clicking on their name if you need assistance. You may also contact them by phone at the numbers listed. If there is no answer leave a message stating your name, phone number, and reason for calling, and the counselor will get back to you promptly.
| (760) 380-3905 | |
| BS in Secondary Education
from John Brown University MA in Educational Psychology from University of Illinois |
Ms. Heiden |
| Lorena Garcia | (760)252-2411 extension 7207 |
B.A. in Religious Studies from UC Santa Barbara M.S. in Counseling with PPS from California Lutheran University Adjunct general counselor and the CARE program |
Ms. Garcia |
| Michelle Lopez | (760)252-2411 extension 7325 |
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Barstow Native |
Ms. Lopez |
| Ellsworth Merrell | (760)252-2411 extension 7209 |
| AA from Eastern
Arizona Junior College BA from Brigham Young University, Provo MA from Arizona State University Adjunct counselor for the DSPS program |
Mr. Merrell |
| Kathi Brant | (760) 380-3478 |
| AA in Liberal
Studies from College of the Sequoias BS in Management and Organization Management from Fresno Pacific University MS in Organizational Behavior from California School of Professional Psychology MS In Educational Counseling with PPS credential from National University, Fresno campus Adjunct general counseling |
Ms. Brant |
| Gene Low | (760) 252-2411 ext. 7218 |
| AA in Physical
Science from Barstow Community College BS in Physical Education from Oklahoma Baptist University MS in Pupil Personnel Services from Azusa Pacific University Adjunct general counseling and VA counseling |
Mr. Low |
| Charles "Rich" Johnston | (760) 380-3905 |
| BA in History
from Waynesburg College MA in Guidance and Counseling from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Coordinator/Counselor, Ft. Irwin |
Mr. Johnston |
| Randy Christensen | (760) 252-2411 x7334 |
| BS in Business
Administration from CSU Fresno MA in Counseling and Student Services from CSU Fresno Counselor in the EOPS program |
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