Rosemary E. Simmons, Ph.D.
PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT
I am a licensed psychologist with over 30 years of experience in providing training, supervision, coaching, and consultation in higher education. I integrate my knowledge of higher education, psychology, and DEI to design evidence based, individualized strategies and action plans. The coaching and consultation I offer are strength based, offering strategies and tools that you can quickly integrate to promote your professional development and personal wellbeing in realistic and tangible ways. In training seminars and workshops, I address trending topics in higher education and health care and the pressing needs of university personnel through the lens of psychology. Staff, administrators, health care personnel, and faculty have shared that they embraced the insights and tools they gained during individual coaching, consultation, and training seminars I have provided.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE/RESULTS
- Communication and Interpersonal Skill Development
- Keynote Speaking
- Leadership Development, Coaching, and Training
- Staff Development, Coaching, and Training
- Trainer: customized training sessions, workshop development
EXPERIENCE / SELECTED PROJECTS
- Communication and Interpersonal Skill Development
- One on one, small group, and departmental coaching and consultation to address effective communication based on neuroscience, human development, and behavior
- Leadership and Staff Development, Coaching, and Training
- Building on personal strengths, clarifying goals, identifying barriers, and creating effective strategies
- Conflict Coaching – Communication to lower defensiveness while increasing engagement & collaboration
- Training & Keynotes Include: Brain science: How it effects our interactions with others; Compassion fatigue & trauma stewardship; Conflict de-escalation: Do’s, don’ts, and neuroscience; Creating trauma informed work environments & educational cultures; Emotional intelligence & emotional regulation; Life-work balance; Mindfulness at work; Preventing workplace violence; Taming the procrastination monster; Wellbeing during times of uncertainty
CREDENTIALS
- Licensed Psychologist, State of Washington
- Doctorate in Counseling Psychology
- Counseling Center Director, University of Washington, Bothell, 2014-2021
- Counseling Center Director, Southern Illinois University, 2006-2014
- Director of Training, Counseling Center, Southern Illinois University, 1997 – 2009
SELECTED CLIENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
- Alumni Association
- Professional and Organizational Development
- School of Dentistry
- School of Social Work
- UW Bothell
SELECTED CLIENTS OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
- Coughlin-Porter-Lundeen Structural Civil Seismic Engineering
- Idaho State University
- Illinois Higher Education Center
- Illinois State University
- Illinois Terrorism Task Force and Illinois Emergency Management Agency
- Lewis-Clark State College
- University of California Davis
- University of Idaho
- University of Missouri
- Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families