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 | Dr. Jill Van Horne | - 8282622590
- 336B College of Education
- vanhornejw@appstate.edu
- PhD, LCMHCS, NCC, RPT, EAGALA Certified
- Jill W. Van Horne PhD, (LCMHCS, NCPSC, NCC, RPTS, EAGALA certified)- is Director of the Professional School Counseling Program and Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University. She has over 20 years of school counseling and clinical mental health experience. She works primarily with children and adolescents. Her professional interests include incorporating sensory and experiential approaches in her work and extending dialogue between professional school counseling and clinical mental health disciplines. She is a board member of the North Carolina Association for Play Therapy as well as a member of the Board of Governors for the European Branch of the American Counseling Association.
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 | Dr. Glenda Johnson | - 8282626051
- 336E College of Education
- johnsong@appstate.edu
- PhD, LCMHC
- Glenda S. Johnson, PhD, LCMHC, NCSC is an Assistant Professor in the professional school counseling (PSC) program. She earned her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision in 2012 from Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, TX). In 1997, she earned a Masters of Arts in counseling from Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black college and university (HBCU). She has worked as a school counselor for 17 years, a teacher of students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing for 7 years, and a part-time licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) for 3.5 years all in the state of Texas. Her research interests include the counseling needs of students who are at-risk of dropping out of high school, students living in poverty, students’ college and career readiness, and the mentoring needs of novice school counselors.
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 | Dr. Patrick Cunningham | - cunninghampd@appstate.edu
- PhD. LPSC
- Patrick D. Cunningham is an Assistant Professor in the Professional School Counseling program atAppalachian State University. He earned his PhD in Counselor Education from The Ohio State University and his Master of Science in School Counseling from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He has worked as a school counselor in several different settings including a large public high school in Raleigh, North Carolina as well as private, international schools in Dubai and South Korea. His research interests include school counseling intervention research, understanding and promoting the role of school counselors as family engagement leaders in schools, and antiracist school counseling practices.
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