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 |