The Scraper Counseling Center
The Scraper Counseling Center serves dual purposes as a training site for future counseling professionals and to support MACU students in a compassionate, supportive, and confidential Christian environment. Upholding all state and federal regulations, the Center acts as a safe haven for health, wellness, and rehabilitation to restore clients’ mental well-being. The interns and staff act as guides to move clients toward healing and making healthy decisions. Our staff highlights the client’s God-given strengths through trained guidance and finds creative ways to utilize these gifts to help the client to empower the client to work toward restoration and healing.
If you are in crisis or experiencing a life-threatening emergency, such as uncontrollable feelings or thoughts about hurting yourself or others, call 911 or go to your local hospital emergency room.
Need help in a crisis? Call 988 or visit the website linked here.
Are you Feeling?
- Depressed
- Anxious
- Stressed Out
- Homesick
- Lonely
- Overwhelmed
- Defeated
- Conflicted with a Peer
- Lack of Motivation
- Weepy
- Sad
- Unable to Concentrate
About Scraper Counseling Center
- Only Oklahoma students can be accepted at this time
- On-campus and virtual appointments available
- FREE
- Individual counseling services
- Confidentiality guaranteed
- Group therapy
- Walk-ins accepted during operating hours
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Therapy dog services
Hours of Operation
Mondays – 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesdays – Noon to 6 p.m.
Wednesdays – 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Thursdays – Noon to 6 p.m.
Fridays – 9 a.m. to Noon
Phone: 405-703-8221
Email: [email protected]
Do you have a Compliment, Comment, or Complaint? Please fill out this form and email it to us at [email protected].
Meet Our Therapy Dogs
Sally
Charlie
Sally, an 8lb poodle-chihuahua mix, and Charlie, a 45lb Goldendoodle, serve the MACU Community as Therapy Dogs. The girls alternate days in the Scraper Counseling Center, and often can be seen on campus. Please pet them! That is their job, and they are really good at it!
Small Group Therapy
The Scraper Counseling Center is hosting various small groups throughout the school year. Sign up by clicking this link to join a small group. All small groups are completely free and confidential. Check the link to see days and times of the small groups.
Small Groups we are currently offering:
Loved Ones of Loved Ones
If you are a caregiver of someone who is ill or injured, it can take a toll on you. Join this support group of others in the same situation in a free, confidential setting. This is open to all members of the MACU family.
Rising Hope Small Group
Did you know you can measure your level of hope? Did you know hope is the top predictor in a person’s capacity to flourish? Learn about hope in this small group with goal setting, agency, and waypower.
The Rembrandts
Explore your mind with the use of different types of art in a safe, confidential setting. All students are invited to sign up for this group. We will supply the materials and you supply the ideas. This will be a 6-week small group.
Meet Our Graduate Therapists
David Sidebottom
Hobby: Hockey games with my grandson
Fun Fact: I tried to inner tube down a glacier. Not a great idea!
I love people and want to help and support those with mental health needs.
Amy Gray
Hobby: Family, cooking, reading, walking, yoga
Fun Fact: I own a restaurant.
I want to be a therapist to help individuals who are struggling to have hope and healing through faith.
Quinda Beeson
Hobby: Gardening, decorating, entertaining
Fun Fact: I have lived and worked in Bermuda
I want to become a therapist to continue in the helping profession, and to promote good health and well being.
Joni Graham
Hobby: Reading, writing, hiking, crocheting
Fun Fact: My favorite scents are puppy breath, Fall days, and a Barnes and Noble bookstore
After seeing a few talented therapists, I feel called to help others in the same way.
Kelli Holman
Hobby: Spending time with my son, reading books
Fun Fact: I have so many books, my house qualifies as a small library
I want to help others feel safe and confident in expressing themselves with no fear of judgment.
About Michelle Strain
Michelle Strain, Director of Counseling Services at the Scraper Counseling Center, is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Master’s Degree in Human Relations. Her Bachelor’s Degree is in Journalism.
Michelle started her counseling career as a school counselor before moving into school counselor and counselor leadership at the district and state level. She has been in private practice since 2020.
Michelle’s partners in her work are Sally, an 8lb poodle-chihuahua mix, and Charlie, a 45lb Goldendoodle, who serve as a therapy dogs at the Scraper Center.
Michelle’s hobbies are spending time with her husband, 4 adult sons, her daughter in law, and her two granddaughters. She also is a big sports fan and has spent lots of time at the soccer fields, football fields, baseball fields, and basketball courts when her children were growing up.
A fun fact about Michelle is she is a state expert in school crisis response, preparation and prevention.
“The reason I love counseling is because I get to watch people come to us in low times and then I get to watch their healing process. I love how God uses counselors to make a difference in the lives of our clients.”
