Our Staff

Ann McGettigan, Executive Director

Ann McGettigan has over 25 years of professional experience working with social change non-profits in various positions from crisis line worker to executive director. She has coordinated rape prevention programs, worked in battered women’s shelters, provided community education on sexual and domestic violence and administered programs that support reproductive rights for women and girls.

Ann has been the Executive Director at Seattle Counseling Service (SCS) since 1998. She chose to work with SCS because she wants to work directly with and for the LGBTQI communities with which she identifies. With the essential support of a dedicated and hard working staff and board of directors Ann has led the organization onto a strong financial footing and solid program expansion. SCS has added several new program areas including licensure to provide chemical dependency services, domestic and sexual violence intervention and cutting edge HIV prevention and harm reduction programs.

Ann continues to work hard on behalf of the LGBTQI communities and takes great pride in her leadership responsibilities with SCS. She is honored to be able to be of service to her community and is delighted to be a part of such a vibrant, accessible, vital organization.

Donnie Goodman, Deputy Director

Donald “Donnie” Goodman started with Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities (SCS) in 1995 and was named the agency’s Clinical Director in 2000 and Deputy Director in 2009. Born and raised on the plains of South Dakota and Nebraska Donnie received his undergraduate degree from Morningside College in Sioux City, IA and his Master’s Degree in Counseling from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD. During this period he also spent formative time working on the Rosebud Reservation in Mission, SD.

Since coming to the Pacific Northwest and joining SCS he has been a strong advocate for HIV/AIDS education and awareness. Donnie has worked for over a decade as President of AIDS Housing of Tacoma (1997-2008) and participates in AIDS Bike-a-Thons across the United States, Canada and Italy.

Donnie’s counseling specialties include youth, couples and families and he has been a National Certified Counselor since 1994. He is a licensed Mental Health Counselor for the State of Washington and is identified by Washington State as a Sexual Minority, Youth and Native American Mental Health Specialist.

In his spare time, Donnie assists Kids Helping Kids (Teewashea) which connects grade school students in Seattle with fellow students in Tanzania. He is also the proud father of Grizzlie – the infamous Shar Pei of Queen Anne – and his two loving cats, Biff and Gnomi.

Paul Grekin, MD Medical Director

Paul Grekin MD has served as Seattle Counseling Service's medical director since 1996. He earned his Bachelors of Science and Doctorate of Medicine degrees at the University of Michigan, and completed his residency in Psychiatry and fellowship in Community Psychiatry at the University of Washington. Dr. Grekin satisfied the requirements for board certification in Psychiatry in 1990 and for Added Qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry in 1993.

In addition to his work at Seattle Counseling Service, Dr. Grekin has worked at Evergreen Treatment Services, an opiate dependence treatment program, since 1990. He has worked at other community-oriented agencies including Pike Market Medical Clinic, the Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Center and the King County Mental Health Division. He serves as a medical peer reviewer for the Washington State Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse and holds the appointment of Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Washington.

As a founding member of Team SCS, Dr. Grekin faithfully rides his bike to Portland every year since 2006.

Sheila Murphy, Ph.D Financial Director

Sheila C. Murphy, Ph.D. began a career in education in Texas.  She worked as a teacher, curriculum writer, and researcher.  Before moving to the Seattle area, she was a researcher and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.  In 1986 she and her partner moved to the Pacific Northwest.

Sheila has worked in the nonprofit community in the Seattle area for 20+ years.  Currently, she is the Financial Director at Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities.  She and her partner of 30 years are raising two teenagers in a Seattle suburb.

Clinical Staff

Our agency is a state licensed community mental health agency and state licensed chemical dependency out-patient treatment facility.  All clinical staff members  hold master's level degrees or higher and are credentialed Mental Health Professionals. All staff members have training and experience in providing culturally competent services to LGBTQI clients.