Staff

Counselors at the Simpson University Counseling Center are committed and growing Christians. They are professionally trained, skilled, and educated in the fields of psychology or marital and family therapy. 

Mike Schill
Simpson Community Counseling Center, Director
B.A. Psychology/Sociology
M.S. Counseling Education
Psy.D. Clinical Psychology
Ordained with Christian & Missionary Alliance

Employed as a youth and family social worker for the State of Kansas, as a regional director with the Kansas State Criminal Justice System, in private practice as a family and marriage counselor, as a C&MA Senior Pastor in Washington State, and Director of Counseling, and adjunct professor at Simpson University and A.W. Tozer Theological Seminary.

My special interests in counseling include:

  • Anxiety, Mood and Stress disorders
  • Adjustment disorders
  • Relationships including pemarital counseling
  • Spiritual - behavioral issues

I have been at Simpson University for ten years and continue to enjoy many relationships with our staff, faculty and students. You will find at our Counseling Center a professional, enthusiastic and experienced staff who embrace God’s Word as foundational to all issues. We encourage and welcome all inquires.

You will find at Simpson University&rsuo;s Counseling Center a professional, enthusiastic and experienced staff embracing God’s Word as foundational in all issues. We encourage and welcome all inquiries.

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Bev Klaiber, M.A., LMFT
Community Counseling Center Therapist
B.A. English and Communication, Azusa Pacific University, 1987
M.A. Marital and Family Therapy, Azusa Pacific University, 1991
Licensed in the state of California since 1995

I have been married since 1989 and I have three boys. My sons are Sam (10), Max (6), and Jack (4). We moved to Redding from the Los Angeles area in 1992. My husband has been a teacher and football coach at Anderson High School since that time. I worked for nine years in Child Welfare as a Social Worker/Therapist at a Foster Family agency also in Anderson. In 1997, I taught a class in the ASPIRE program at Simpson. I later taught another class and began doing some counseling here in our counseling center. After my third (and final!) son was born in September of 2000, I left Child Welfare to focus my professional attention on working with college students. I have never done anything professionally that I enjoy as much as this. It is a privilege, with all of its joys and challenges, to be part of this stage of development in the lives of young men and women.

Though I have dealt with a wide variety of issues in counseling over the years, I would have to say that there are a few areas that I have cultivated some measure of expertise about. Those would include:

  • Anxiety
  • Trauma
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Eating Disorders
  • Relationship Conflicts

It is my professional passion to participate with others, through counseling, in the growth, healing and maturity that only God, through Christ, brings.

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Sherry Tankersley
Growth and Development Secretary/Receptionist

My husband and I made the move to the North State from Idaho over 25 years ago in search of warmer weather and year-round employment! We raised our four girls in this area and are enjoying being grandparents to eight wonderful boys (still praying for just ONE granddaughter!) My heart has been with Simpson students for several years. I had the privilege of directing the Redding Elementary School District Give A Child A Hand Mentor Program and experienced first-hand the loving and servant hearts of Simpson University students and staff, as they came forward to mentor the disadvantaged children in our program.  After seven years the school district elected to discontinue the program and I was elated at the opportunity the Lord gave me to come to work for this great organization. I look forward to being able to use the gifts He gave me to give back what I have been given.