Admissions Coffee Hour with Faculty
Grab a cup of coffee or warm mug of tea and join our Admissions Team for a casual, online conversation about our Graduate Programs at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. We describe our learning community as Robustly Christian, Deeply Questioning, and Profoundly Human. This month, we will be joined by two esteemed faculty, Dr. Monique Gadson and Dr. Joel Kiekintveld to dialogue with each other from their differing disciplines on what it means to be Robustly Christian.
Bring your own questions, thoughts, and hopes! We’d love to chat with you about what you can begin to anticipate as a part of our relational learning community.
Dr. Monique Gadson is an Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology & Listening Lab Leader who teaches a variety of courses in our Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology (MACP) program. Dr. Joel Kiekintveld is a Listening Lab Leader, a Common Curriculum Coordinator, and an Affiliate Faculty member who teaches courses in our Master of Arts in Theology & Culture (MATC) and MACP programs as well as our Certificate in Scripture & Society.
Event Zoom details will be sent after you register.
Dr. Monique Gadson is a licensed professional counselor, consulting therapist, educator, and podcast host. She received her B.S. in Business Management from The University of Alabama, her M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Troy State University, her M.S. in Spirituality and Counseling from Richmont Graduate University, and her Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Amridge University. Dr. Gadson hosts the podcast, “And The Church Said,” that discusses church and culture from a Christian counseling perspective, focusing on mental and emotional health and the church. She provides counseling and consulting services through her practice, Transforming Visions, LLC., concerning issues such as grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, marriage and family care, relationship challenges, questions of faith, and spiritual abuse. Her areas of professional and ministerial interest include premarital and pre-engagement education/counseling, individual development, effects of trauma on development, family-of-origin influences, relationships, marriage and family therapy and education, the intersection of theology and psychology, and the Church and mental health ministry.
Dr. Joel Kiekintveld is the Co-Director of the Anchorage Urban Training Collaborative. A Street Psalms Senior Fellow, the Pastor of Reclaim, the host of The AnchorED City Podcast, and an affiliate professor at The Seattle School. For 17 years he served Parachutes Teen Club and Resource Center (Anchorage, AK), which he helped found in 2003, as Executive Director and Founding Director. Parachutes served teens ages thirteen to eighteen years old. Many of the active members of the drop-in center were high-risk and street-involved. Joel has served as a pastor and youth pastor in both Michigan and Alaska. Joel holds a PhD in Practical Theology from the University of Pretoria (South Africa), a Master of Arts in Global Urban Ministry degree from Bakke Graduate University, a Bachelor of Religious Education degree from Reformed Bible College (now Kuyper College), and a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from The Foraker Group/ University of Alaska Fairbanks. He was ordained as a Commissioned Pastor by the Christian Reformed Church in 2008.