Nicole Newell, MA, CMHC, NCCMHC, NCC (she/her)
Director of Counseling and Joint Health Services 

608-899-4135
 Newelln@franklinpierce.edu 

 
Nicole has been the Director of Counseling here at Franklin Pierce University since 2018 and has been at the university since 2014. Nicole received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Antioch University. Before coming to FPU, she worked within non-profit organizations working with underserved populations through state and federal vendors. During her undergrad experience at Keene State College, Nicole was an NCAA two sport athlete and understands the difficulties in navigating the student-athlete experience. Nicole is an adjunct professor within the psychology department and has taught First Year Inquiry, Group Dynamics and Creative Arts Therapy. Nicole has a passion for working with the college age populations because of her own journey during her college years.  When Nicole is not at Franklin Pierce she can be seen attending to her beehives, spending time with family, gardening, hiking, traveling and playing with her many animals.

Kalyn DaSilva ‘18, MSW, LCSW (they/them)
Assistant Director of Counseling and Outreach

603-899-1029
dasilvak@franklinpierce.edu 

Kalyn is an alum of FPU where they received their B.A. in Psychology. Kalyn holds a Master of Social Work from Simmons School of Social Work in Boston, MA and is a licensed certified social worker in the state of Massachusetts. Kalyn joined the FPU Counseling team in 2021. In addition to working in the counseling center, Kalyn is the co-chair of FPU’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion council. Kalyn’s special interests include working with the LGBTQIA+ community, and survivors of gender and sexual violence. Kalyn is also passionate about providing universal education to members across campus on numerous topics such as suicide prevention, gender identity and pronouns, self-love, and eating disorder awareness. Outside of work you can find Kalyn hiking with their dog, Summit! 

Summit DaSilva (he/him)
Therapy Dog in Training

Summit is the newest member of the FPU Counseling team and has loved every minute of it! Summit joins Kalyn in their office each day where he gets to help students become comfortable in their environment when talking about difficult topics. Summit’s special interests are naps, getting belly rubs, asking for hugs (yes, hugs!), and saying hello to every person on campus. 

Patti Dion Marshall, B.A., M.A.., L.C.M.H.C. (she/her)
Mental Health Counselor

603-899-4219
dasilvak@franklinpierce.edu 

Patti is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Keene State College in Communications in 2002 and her Master of Arts degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Antioch University New England in 2009. Her background includes working in hospital medicine, emergency medicine, community mental health, inpatient psychiatric units, residential substance use treatment facilities and in Education as a School Social Worker/personal counselor. Areas of interest include suicide prevention, crisis counseling, domestic violence, addiction and family therapy and conflict resolution. She is a member of the American Mental Health Counselors Association and the New Hampshire Clinical Mental Health Counselor Association.

pEER cOUNSELORS

The counseling center has a rotation of student peer counselors, which changes every semester. Our trained peer counselors work with students who do not want to talk to a professional counselor or would benefit from speaking with another student. You can email counseling@franklinpierce.edu to make an appointment with one of our peer counselors.