Dr. Ania Bartkowiak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling at Montana State University. Her interests include counselor growth and training, empathic communication, relationship concerns related to intimate partner violence (IPV), culture and identity, and the needs of rural communities.

Dr. Bartkowiak’s research centers on student counselors’ professional identity development and trauma-informed counselor education. She also explores innovation and technology in counseling – advances in counselor education pedagogy and the use of emerging technologies in therapeutic interventions, including addiction treatment, crisis intervention, and triage. Dr. Bartkowiak is committed to using pedagogy to increase Master-level students’ engagement in community-based research that supports advocacy, informs community events, and advances diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the classroom and counseling relationships. Outside academia, she serves as Clinical Coordinator of the Counseling Program at Haven, a local nonprofit working to reduce the impact of domestic violence, IPV, sexual assault, and human trafficking in Gallatin County and across Montana. She also supervises post-graduate counselors at Green Flag, PC, a small mental health clinic in Bozeman, Montana.