MICHELLE BURDICK has been appointed licensed mental-health practitioner at Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC). She will be responsible for providing a full array of counseling, mentoring, and coaching services to students, including personal and educational counseling for individual students. Burdick also will evaluate mental health and related cases and provide intervention and community-agency referrals when […]
MICHELLE BURDICK has been appointed licensed mental-health practitioner at Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC). She will be responsible for providing a full array of counseling, mentoring, and coaching services to students, including personal and educational counseling for individual students. Burdick also will evaluate mental health and related cases and provide intervention and community-agency referrals when appropriate. She previously held positions as a contracted/remote telehealth therapist at BetterHelp Online Therapy, a risk-management specialist for the Central New York Psychiatric Center, a psychiatric social worker for Ellis Outpatient Mental Health Clinic in Schenectady, and a child/family specialist for the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. Burdick also previously served as team leader/primary counselor/compliance for Northeast Career Planning and as a teacher’s assistant for the House of the Good Shepard. She holds a master’s degree in social work from the University at Albany and bachelor’s degrees in criminal justice and sociology from SUNY Potsdam.
SARA CUTRIGHT has transitioned to the position of technical assistant for the Center for Corporate and Community Education (CCED) at MVCC. In this role, she will provide technical support to professional or administrative staff to assist in the efficient operations of the CCED office. Cutright served the CCED office from 2010-2015 as an administrative assistant and since 2018 as a college services associate. She also worked at the college as a water safety and lifeguard instructor from 2005-2019. Before MVCC, Cutright worked in an administrative-support role at M. Griffith Investment Services and as a special-events coordinator at The Community at Sunset Woods. She holds a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from SUNY Polytechnic Institute, an associate degree in human-resources management from Herkimer College, and an associate degree in educational sign-language interpretation from MVCC.