FHPCC Staff
Sunil R Rangwani, MD
Dr. Rangwani has been practicing in Alma since 1995. His practice includes general/adult psychiatry with a subspecialty in geriatric psychiatry and addiction medicine.
Dr. Rangwani completed his medical education at Spartan Health Sciences University in the West Indies and did his psychiatry residency and geriatric fellowship at Creighton-Nebraska University in Omaha, Nebraska.
Dr. Rangwani is a member of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association. He is a member of the Michigan State Medical Society and serves as an officer for the Gratiot County Chapter. He is the chairman for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and served as Chief of staff from 2010 – 2011 at Mid Michigan Medical Center-Gratiot. He serves as Medical Director for Gratiot Community Mental Health. Dr Rangwani also serves on several boards including Gratiot Medical Center’s Board of Directors and Gratiot County Medical PC.
Brandon Kropp, PMHNP-BC
Brandon received his Bachelor’s in psychology from Purdue University and his Bachelor’s in nursing from Grand Canyon University. He received his Master’s in nursing from Wayne State University.
Brandon completed his board certification as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in 2014. He has completed his clinical training at Genesee Health System and Rochester Center for Behavioral Health Medicine.
Brandon will be seeing patients in both the Alma and Mount Pleasant locations. Please call FHPCC to inquire about office hours for the locations.
Brandon looks forward to providing high quality mental health services and medication management to children, adolescents, and adults.
Eric Braman, PMHNP-BC
Eric Braman, PMHNP-BC graduated from Chamberlain University with a Masters of Science in Nursing and is a board certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. He also has his MSN in RN Executive from Chamberlain. Eric completed his clinical training with FHPCC in both Alma and Mt. Pleasant. He has lived his whole life in the Mid-Michigan area and is looking forward to serving the community. Eric has been an RN since 2011 and has worked in many specialties including Medical/Surgical, Oncology, Long-term care, and Community Mental Health. He understands the effect negative mental health issues can have on individuals, families, and communities, and addresses these issues through a supportive, holistic care approach.
Eric joined FHPCC in September of 2024. Outside of the clinic Eric spends time with his family and friends enjoying time outdoors hunting and golfing, and also enjoys exercise.
Kryn L. Sisco, PMHNP-BC, DNP, MPA, BSN, RN
Dr. Kryn graduated from the University of Michigan-Flint in 2018 with her doctorate in nursing practices. Her experience includes working for 16 years in a community mental health setting as a Psychiatric Registered Nurse working in Clinical Services for Developmental Disabilities and the adult/older adult Mental Health population. Prior to that she worked for more than 19 years as a Registered Nurse in the Lansing, MI area. Dr. Kryn has also obtained her master’s in public administration with a Healthcare concentration during her educational journey.
Dr. Kryn joined Family Health Psychiatric & Counseling Center in July 2023. She is looking forward to working with the FHPCC team to provide quality psychiatric mental health services for children, adolescents and adults, including the older adult population. She is grateful to be working in a rural area supporting the needs in Mental Health. While she was attending graduate school she fulfilled her child-adolescent clinical rotation in upper northern MI and realized that a rural area is where she wanted to plant her roots as a provider.
Outside of the clinic Dr. Kryn enjoys being a lifelong learner. She also enjoys the outdoors including camping and traveling. Dr. Kryn states: “I love this great state of Michigan.”
Christine Gransden, APNP
Christine Gransden graduated with her master’s in nursing with a clinical specialty license as a Nurse Practitioner in 2019 from Purdue Global University.
Since graduating from Purdue, Christine has been involved in Behavioral Health services treating patients at the inpatient level as well as outpatient. In 2020, Christine began overseeing patients receiving Spravato and noted an overwhelming positive response in improvement of quality of life and overall improvement in mood. Due to this observed outcome when administering Spravato treatments, she has become passionate about ensuring patients have access to this treatment in the Central Michigan area.
Christine is passionate about mental health and seeing the mind, mood, and quality of life improve. She is dedicated and committed to being a strong advocate for patients under her care. Christine will be accepting patients for medication management as well as Spravato treatments at our Mt. Pleasant location.
Marjorie Sattler, LMSW
Margie has been practicing in Alma since 1988. Margie’s clinical interests include working with individuals including, a special interest in adolescent, as well as couples and family. She has experience in helping with marriage/relationship and family therapy, anger management, impulse control issues, domestic violence, sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety disorders, grief and loss issues, behavioral and discipline problems with children and adolescents, adjustment issues, personality disorders and psycho-physiological disorders.
Margie is a clinical social worker and completed her master’s training at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan.
Margie is a member of the National Association for Social Workers and the Academy of Certified Social Workers.
Karen McGee, LMSW
Karen has been practicing in Mt. Pleasant and Alma since 2014. Karen’s clinical interests include working with individuals, couples and families. As a generalist, experience has been in many areas, but major interests are substance abuse, anxiety, depression, anger management, grief and loss, adjustment issues, personality disorders and psycho-physiological disorders.
Karen is a clinical social worker and completed her master’s training at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan.
Karen also is a Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor through the Michigan Board for Addiction Professionals.
Hillary Kolb, LMSW, MA, TLLP, CCHP
Hillary graduated from the University of Michigan's School of Literature, Sciences and the Arts majoring in Psychology and Crime & Justice in Spring 2013 as well as the University of Michigan's School of Social Work with a degree in Clinical Social Work in Spring 2015. Additionally, in July of 2023 Hillary graduated with her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the Michigan School of Psychology. Hillary completed her graduate school practicum at the Washtenaw County CSTS and Washtenaw CMH and her second practicum in the behavioral health unit at MyMichigan Medical Center in Alma, Michigan. Hillary specializes in the areas of trauma, death, grief and bereavement. Hillary is an experienced mental health clinician and has been a therapist since 2015. Hillary has experience working with a diverse client population who experience a variety of mental health symptoms. Hillary has been working for Family Health Psychiatric and Counseling Center since 2016. In the past she worked for the Michigan Department of Corrections as a Qualified Mental Health Professional and worked for Veterans Affairs in Saginaw, Michigan at the Vet Center. She has been teaching at Mid Michigan College since 2017. Mental health work has been her passion for many years, and she constantly strives to build upon her skillset as a mental health clinician. Hillary also has experience working with survivors of domestic violence and began her experience as a Women’s Aid Service domestic violence crisis worker at 17 years-old while she was working on her Associate’s Degree at Mid Michigan College.
“Healing from traumatic experiences can be a long, difficult journey and I am in this work because I am driven to help individuals learn skills and strategies to help them improve their ability to cope with their lived experiences and in turn improve their quality of life”. Hillary spends time reading on resilience and post-traumatic growth. Outside the office Hillary enjoys being involved in animal rescue work with a local 501c3 group.
Russell Scabbo, PhD
Dr. Scabbo has been practicing in Alma since 2000. Dr Scabbo’s clinical interests include individual, marriage/relationship and family therapy, anger management, impulse control issues, domestic violence, depression, anxiety disorders, grief and loss issues, behavioral and discipline problems with children and adolescents, adjustment issues, personality disorders and psycho-physiological disorders.
Dr. Scabbo is a clinical psychologist and completed his doctoral training at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan.
Dr. Scabbo is a member of the American Psychological Association, American Academy of Forensic Evaluators and the National Board of Certified Rehabilitation Counselors. He is also certified as a marriage and Family therapist.
Michelle Northrop, LPC
Michelle has been a therapist since 2004. Michelle graduated from Ferris State University with a Bachelor’s of science degree in Applied Speech Communication and graduated with a Master’s of Science degree in Counseling Psychology from Tarleton State University in Killen, Texas. Michelle served as a military counselor for the US Army focusing on treating Combat Veterans with PTSD.
Michelle has taught at Central Texas College and Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis, Indiana. Michelle has her EMDR certification and specializes in treating PTSD and the Seriously Mentally Ill population. She has been an ACT team therapist and manager for Aspire Indiana Behavioral Health for 10 years focusing on treating patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar.
Michelle is currently employed full time at My Michigan Medical Center on the Behavioral Health Unit as a therapist. She joined FHPCC in 2022 and is looking forward to helping individuals reach their treatment goals.