Personal Summary

Emily Sallee is an Assistant Professor of Counseling at the University of Montana as well as the Executive Director of the Montana Safe Schools Center housed at UM. Emily engages in professional advocacy by serving on the MSCA Board of Directors as Board Chair and in various other roles throughout the state. Her research interests include adolescent suicidality and non-suicidal self-injury, school violence and prevention, and advocacy for the role of professional school counselors. Emily is also the part-time school counselor at a K-8 frontier school and has a small clinical practice working with youth. While other people’s kiddos tend to be easier to work with, Emily has three of her own to wrangle, in addition to a growing menagerie and ever-increasing lists of books to read, foods to eat, and trails to run. 

Education

PhD Counselor Education, Oregon State University

MA School Counseling, George Fox University

BS Human Development, Warner Pacific University

Courses Taught

COUN 520 (Group Counseling)

COUN 555 (Risk & Resilency)

COUN 565 (School Counseling, Program Development, and Supervision)

COUN 570 (Career Counseling, Theory, and Technique)

COUN 575 (Multicultural Counseling)

COUN 585 (School Counseling Internship)

COUN 610 (Professional Ethics/Orientation)

Publications

Sallee, E., Ng, K., & Cazares-Cervantes, A. (2021). Interpersonal predictors of suicide ideation and attempt among early adolescents. Professional School Counseling, 23(1), 1-11.

Barbour, L., Correa, N., & Sallee, E. (2021). Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI): What school counselors need to know to support students. Journal of School Counseling. [in press]

Affiliations

ACA (American Counseling Association)

ACES (Association for Counselor Education and Supervision)

ASCA (American School Counselor Association)

MSCA (Montana School Counselor Association) - Board of Directors