Career Counseling and Career Center Team


Career Counseling

Career Counseling is essential to helping you define your career and life goals which directly impact your educational success. 

Counseling is available to assist with:

  • Discovering your career/major options
  • Targeting your ideal career or field of interest
  • Clarifying your preferred interests, skills, strengths, and work values
  • Disseminating and interpreting career assessments
  • Guiding you through the goal setting and decision-making process
  • Perfecting job search strategies, résumé writing, and interview preparation
  • Improving your online presence, social media branding, and networking techniques
  • Understanding the various skills, attitudes, characteristics, and qualifications needed for your career choices
  • Conveying the need for enhancing 21st Century skills such as critical thinking, math, writing, communication, and computer literacy

Cranium Café – Online Career Counseling

All career counseling appointments are now online. To schedule an appointment with a Career Counselor, please contact us at careercenter@cypresscollege.edu or visit us at our Virtual Front Desk through Cranium Café at: cypress.craniumcafe.com/careerplanningcenter/cafe


Meet the Staff

Meet the staff and learn the STRENGTHS of the Career Planning Center team.

Career Center Team (Full-Time)

Dr. Troy Davis
Dean of Counseling and Student Development
 
Angela Sardan
Career Center Coordinator
asardan@cypresscollege.edu
 
Sarah Coburn
Career Counselor / Instructor
Video chat on Cranium Cafe with Sarah Coburn
scoburn@cypresscollege.edu
Positivity | Input | Empathy | Futuristic | Includer
 
Anne-Marie Beck
Career Counselor/Instructor
ambeck@cypresscollege.edu
Futuristic | Achiever | Strategic | Significance | Ideation
Zola Aponte
Instructional Assistant
zaponte@cypresscollege.edu
Input | Individualization | Ideation | Intellection | Empathy
 
Belinda Allan
Instructional Assistant
ballan@cypresscollege.edu
Developer | Empathy | Input | Positivity | Arranger

Career Center Team (Adjunct/Overload)

Dana Bedard
Career Counselor/Instructor
dbedard@cypresscollege.edu
Woo | Communication | Adaptability | Significance | Positivity
 
Nicholas Bravo
Adjunct Career Counselor/Instructor
nbravo@cypresscollege.edu
Restorative | Analytical | Arranger | Deliberative | Futuristic
 
Amanda Garcia
Adjunct Career Counselor/Instructor, Career Coach
agarcia@cypresscollege.edu
Achiever | Individualization | Competition | Futuristic | Responsibility
 
Melissa Herrera
Adjunct Career Counselor/Instructor
mherrera@cypresscollege.edu
Learner | Maximizer | Connectedness | Individualization | Input
 
Markell Morris
Adjunct Career Counselor/Instructor
mmorris@cypresscollege.edu
Maximizer | Responsibility | Connectedness | Relator | Harmony
 
Ruby Pastrana
Adjunct Career Counselor/Instructor, Career Coach
rpastrana@cypresscollege.edu
Responsibility | Arranger | Relator | Includer | Developer
 
Vanessa Rubinfeld
Instructor
vrubinfeld@cypresscollege.edu
Responsibility | Consistency | Communication | Empathy | Connectedness
 
Christina Sundermeier
Adjunct Career Counselor/Instructor
csundermeier@cypresscollege.edu
Achiever | Connectedness | Empathy | Input | Responsibility