2024 NBCC Award Winners
The NBCC Awards honor exceptional professionals who are advancing the counseling profession.
These awards were created for counselors by counselors to recognize individuals who exemplify professional excellence in counseling and whose contributions have significantly helped to expand access to mental health services, strengthen the profession, and promote equity in health and education, advancing counseling and counselors domestically and globally.
NBCC is pleased to announce the 2024 awards winners.
NBCC Servant Leadership Award
Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling and Educational Development, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Christian D. Chan, PhD, NCC
Associate Professor, Department of Research, Counseling and Curriculum, Augusta University
Meredith Rausch, PhD, NCC
Leadership Excellence for Counselors by Counselors Award
Associate Professor, Adler Graduate School
Asha Dickerson, PhD, NCC, MAC, ACS, LPC
Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences and Counseling, Youngstown State University
Victoria Kress, PhD, NCC, CCMHC, LPCC-S
Propelling Mental Health, Powering the Future: School Counseling Award
High school counselor; counselor education doctoral student, University of Georgia
Denise Hawkins, NCC
Innovation in Counseling Awards
Research Innovations in Counseling Practice and Counselor Education Award
Professor & Department Chair, Department of Counseling and Educational Development, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kelly Wester, PhD, NCC, LPC
Innovation in Counseling: Community Engagement Award
Department of Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Jacksonville University
Innovation in Counseling: Practice and Clinical Service Award
Founder, Adlerian Play Therapy; Founder, The Encouragement Zone
Terry Kottman, PhD, NCC, LMHC, RPT-S
2024 NBCC Advancing Equitable Access to Counseling Award
Lopez Counseling and Consulting
Sandra Lopez-Baez, PhD, NCC, CMHC
Former President, AASCB; Former Chair, NCBLCMHC
Denauvo Robinson, EdD, NCC, ACS, LCMHC, LPCS
D.C. Council At-Large
Councilmember Robert White, Jr.
Join us in celebrating these exceptional individuals and their achievements!
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