Embedded Counselors
Counseling Services has counselors embedded in all of the Schools, Colleges and Athletics to provide easy access for students as well as targeted outreach.
What is an Embedded Counselor?
Counseling Services uses an embedded model to ensure that mental health support is seamlessly integrated into the campus community. This means that clinicians are strategically placed within all 12 academic units as well as the athletics department, providing personalized care tailored to the specific needs of each college or program. Our embedded counselors are here to provide confidential support and assistance.
This model enables us to offer clinical services, targeted outreach, consultation, and prevention programs directly within each academic community, promoting a campus culture that prioritizes mental health and well-being.
Benefits of an Embedded Counselor
- Providers who have a thorough understanding of their specific educational setting, offering more personalized and effective support
- Private and confidential mental health counseling and education right where students are, making it easier for them to access support in the locations they frequent most.
- Collaboration with faculty and student support offices to deliver educational programming, workshops and outreach events.
How To Access Your Embedded Counselor
- Call UB Counseling at 716-645-2720 to schedule a same day needs assessment phone appointment (30 min. appointment*).
- If the needs assessment recommends that you meet with a UB counselor, you may then request to meet with the embedded counselor in your school or department.
*Ongoing counseling sessions are 50 min. appointments.
Meet the Embedded Counselors
Brianna Presutti, Sports Counselor
MS, St. John Fisher College
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Professional interests: Well-being of student-athletes and mental health and performance, eating disorders, anti-racism and allyship practices, and solution-focused brief therapy for college students.
Peggy Tull, Ph.D.
Counselor
Hemy Choi, Ph.D.
Counselor
Katherine Miller-Procknal, Psychologist
Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Licensed Psychologist
Professional interests: Mood disorders, relationship issues, education for equality and social justice, suicide prevention and intervention, trauma and recovery
Matt Muracco, PsyD
Counselor
Kayla (Chunmiao) Wang, Counselor
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Iowa State University
Counselor
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese
Professional interests: Family of origin, grief and loss, trauma and recovery, cultural and life transitions, interpersonal relationships, identity development, group counseling.
Jacquie Compangnoni, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Thomas J. Neill, Social Worker
MSW, University at Buffalo
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Embedded Counselor- UB School of Law
Professional interests: Men's health and sexuality issues, sexual trauma and recovery, male survivors of sexual abuse, poverty and class issues, incarcerated trauma survivors, grief and loss issues, mental health outreach and education to underserved populations, LGBT issues, feminism.
Kate Hey, MHC-LP
Mental Health Counselor - Limited Permit
Chandler Batchelor, Ph.D.
Counselor
Aaron Garmon, Counselor
M.S., Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling, University at Buffalo
Mental Health Counselor - Limited Permit
Professional interests: Anxiety, Learning Disability, ADHD, Men’s issues; Career, School, and Life Transitions, Disability Adjustment issues, Multicultural/Diversity issues, Couples and Relationship issues.
Nicholas Fronczak, Counselor
M.S., Mental Health Counseling, University at Buffalo
Counselor and Assistant Director for Embedded Counseling Programs
Professional interests: Anxiety, relationship and communication issues, family of origin, LGBTQ issues, career and life transitions
Amani Mathis, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker