Dr. James Cooper-Nurse

Assistant Director, Adjunct Training Committee Member

(671) 647-1902 james.cooper-nurse@gbhwc.guam.gov

Dr. James Cooper-Nurse (pronouns: he/him/his) serves as the Deputy Director of Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center. He has worked at GBHWC since January 2022 and was previously the Administrator for Children’s Services. He received his master’s degree in community counseling from Gonzaga University in 2006 and doctoral degree from the Regent University School of Psychology and Counseling in 2018. From 2006 to 2015, he had served as a Washington state Child Mental Health Specialist providing clinical therapy and supervision. From 2015 through 2021, he had served as a mental health program manager for Head Start and later, as the manager of the publicly funded youth behavioral health system in King County, Washington. His clinical and research interests include clinical and systemic elements to behavioral health workforce concerns, burnout prevention, and expansion of access to behavioral healthcare in historically oppressed communities.