
Debbie Crawford Sturm
Department: Graduate Psychology
Areas of expertise:
- Climate Change and mental health
- Climate anxiety, eco-anxiety and other climate distress issues
- Nature connection and mental health
- Trauma
Sturm teaches in the doctoral counseling and supervision program. She teaches Leadership & Advocacy, Advanced Counseling Theories, Counselor Education and Pedagogy and Crisis and Emergency Services.
Sturm earned a bachelor's degree in communication studies at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in community counseling at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a doctorate in counseling and supervision at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 2005.
Media contact: Eric Gorton, gortonej@jmu.edu, 540-908-1760.