Jessie Koltz is a third year Assistant Professor, and the Program Director of the M.Ed. in School Counseling Program in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University. Jessie is a Nationally Certified Counselor, Nationally Certified School Counselor, Licensed School Counselor, and licensed Associate Clinical Mental Health Counselor in the state of Utah. She was a practicing school counselor from 2013-2021 in K-12 settings in VA, NV, and CA and was the director and founder of Mindful Health Initiative, an adventure-based counseling 501(c)3 located in Reno, Nevada during her doctoral program. Her dissertation was entitled Supporting Perceived Academic Stress: An Online Delivered Counseling Intervention for Middle School Students. Her most recent publication is entitled Mindful Teaching, Leadership, and Reflection Practices, and can be found in the book Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success by Julia M. Gossard, Ph.D. & Chris Babits, Ph.D.