Employee Directory: Chris Stuive

Christina Stuive is a Professor of Counseling at KPC's Kenai River Campus since 2010. She has been practicing as a Professional Counselor for the past 19 years. Dr. Stuive began her career with a non-profit Community Agency and spent the first seven years working in an urban setting serving ethnic minority adolescents from a lower socioeconomic class in the Midwest. Conducting home assessments, court-directed drug and alcohol assessments, and providing mental health and substance abuse treatment in community-based outpatient to secure residential, she has worked the continuum.  

She has taught graduate courses in counseling and currently continues to provide post-master’s supervision to counselors in the community. She also teaches UNIV and HUMS courses at KPC. She currently provides academic advising, personal counseling, crisis counseling, and faculty consultation. 

Research Interests

• Alaskan Native Health
• Alaskan Native Ways of Knowing
• Counselor Supervision Practices
• Multicultural Counseling Practices
• Rural Counseling Practices and Delivery

• Brainspotting for mental health and performance
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Holistic Health
• Multicultural Counseling
• Substance Abuse
• Trauma-Informed Practices