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Counseling Staff - Counseling Department

The Counseling Department can be contacted at:

  • Fremont campus: (510) 659-6110
  • Newark Center: (510) 742-2340

Martha Brown
Dean of Counseling
(510) 659-6110
mbrown@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 1107
  • Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
  • Languages Spoken: English, American Sign Language
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Diane Berkland
Counselor, Transfer Coordinator
(510) 659-6110
dberkland@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 1111
  • Languages Spoken: English
  • Interests/Hobbies: Softball, Music, Travel & Family
  • Favorite Quotation/Saying: "Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." -Norman Vincent Peale

Jennifer Okal Harper
Counselor/Associate Professor, Personal Development
(510) 659-6110
jharper@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 1113
  • Job Description: Counseling, electronic advising, online Personal Development instruction
  • Interests/Hobbies: Travel, jogging, reading, yoga
  • Favorite Quotation/Saying: "Everything happens for a reason." -Author unknown

Yvonka Headley
Counselor/Instructor
(510) 659-6110
yheadley@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 1115
  • Languages spoken:  English
  • Job Description: General Counselor and Instructor for Personal Development 150 - Career Planning
  • Interests /Hobbies: traveling, creative writing, sports:  track & field and basketball
  • Favorite Quotation/Saying:  "Inner happiness is the fuel of success." -Author unknown

Jesse MacEwan
Counselor/Instructor, Career and Transfer
(510) 659-6110
jmacewan@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 1118
  • Languages spoken:  English
  • Job Description: General Counselor and Instructor for Personal Development 150 - Career Planning
  • Interests/Hobbies: Eating/cooking, traveling, and spending time with friends and family
  • Favorite Quote: "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." -Chinese Proverb

Susan Myers
Counselor
(510) 659-6110
smyers@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 1109
  • Job Description: General counselor, Counselor/Instructor for University Express Learning Community, Faculty Senate President, Representative for Counseling, Learning Resources and Instructional Technology.

Stephanie Ramos
Counselor
(510) 659-6110
sramos@ohlone.edu

Brenda Arteaga Reynoso
Counselor, Puente Project Program
(510) 659-6110
barteaga@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 1115
  • Language Spoken: English, Spanish
  • Job Description: Puente Project Co-Coordinator/Counselor
  • Hobbies/Interests: Traveling, reading, and dancing.

Wayne Takakuwa
Counselor
(510) 659-6110
wtakakuwa@ohlone.edu

  • Languages Spoken: English
  • Office Location: Room 1114
  • Job Description: General counselor for transfer, technical and occupational programs, as well as career and personal concerns. Instructor for Personal Development 111 (Strategies for Succeeding in College).

Kenn Waters
Instructor and Counselor for Athletics
(510) 659-6110
kwaters@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 9304
  • Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
  • Interests/Hobbies: Life
  • Favorite Quotation/Saying: "All things are functionally connected."

Mandy Kwok-Yip
Counselor
(510) 659-6110
myip@ohlone.edu

  • Languages Spoken: English, Cantonese, Mandarin
  • Office Location: Room 1108
  • Job Description: General counselor, Instructor for Personal Development 150 - Career Planning