Professional Counselor, Clinical Supervisor, Advocate and Leader. Serves youth, adolescents, and adults of all ages. Provides individual, couples, family, and group counseling sessions to a diverse clientele. Utilizes an integrative counseling approach that is most heavily influenced by the rational emotive behavioral therapy and structural family therapy approaches to counseling in a multicultural and social justice context. Provides clinical supervision and consultation to pre-service and professional counselors and other helping professionals. Educator and advocate in the counseling and the counseling delivery profession.
Dr. Shon Smith has been a professional counselor for over 27 years, a clinical supervisor for over 23 years and a Counselor Educator for 20 years and currently sits on the faculty of the Department of Counseling at North Carolina Agricultural and Technological State University. His primary research interests are in counselor education program design and evaluation, use of technology in counselor education curriculum, multicultural & social justice issues in community mental health & counselor programs, clinical supervision, leadership and advocacy competency development mental health public policy, mental health disparities gap, intimate partner violence prevention & relapse prevention and working with military personnel and families (reservist, national guard) on adjustment and readjustment issues.
A Veteran, SSG Smith has been deployed to Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan and stateside. He has conducted several humanitarian missions in Central and South America as a Combat Medic and received a Bronze Star and other military awards for his service.
Dr. Smith has served as President for the Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development and is a past Chair of the American Counseling Association Southern Region and is a Past President of the Florida and Pennsylvania Counseling Associations. I have held membership with AMHCA or a state chapter of AMHCA since 2005.
Dr. Smith received his doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision with a focus in Marriage and Family Therapy, a master’s degree from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in Rehabilitation Counseling and School Counseling and a bachelor’s in criminal justice.