Support Staff Biographies

My name is Cate Mills and I am a school counselor at Lucas Middle School. I hold a M.Ed. in K-12 School Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My education and training are based on the American School Counselor Association’s (ASCA) National Model and the Strengths-Based School counseling framework. I have interned at Shepard IB Middle School in Durham, NC and worked as a school counselor at the American Pacific International School in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In addition, I have studied International Counseling at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.

My name is Michael Smith and I am the School counselor Intern at Lucas Middle School. I hold a Bachelor's in Social Science from Ashford University. I am currently residing at Liberty University to earn my M.Ed in Professional School Counseling. My education and training is based on the American School Counselor Association’s (ASCA) National Model and the Strengths-Based School counseling framework. I served in the Air Force Reserve from 2003-2011. I did one tour of duty to Kirkuk , Iraq.