2025 NBCC Award Winners
2025 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 2025 awards winners.
NBCC Servant Leadership Award
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University; Owner, Salud Mental Health
Camila Angelica Pulgar, PhD, NCC, LCMHC
Leadership Excellence for Counselors by Counselors Award
Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Professional Counseling Graduate Program, Lindsey Wilson College
Hannah M. Coyt, PhD, NCC, CCMHC, LPCC-S
Propelling Mental Health, Powering the Future: School Counseling Award
Professor, Department of Counseling and Educational Development, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Carrie Wachter Morris, PhD, NCC, ACS
School Counselor, CT Janel School; Adjunct Faculty, University of Holy Cross
Zachary Pietrantoni, PhD, NCC, LSC
Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Professional Counseling Graduate Program, Lindsey Wilson College
Zachary Pietrantoni, PhD, NCC, LSC
Innovation in Counseling Awards
Research Innovations in Counseling Practice and Counselor Education Award
Associate Professor, Counselor Education Program, Department of Interdisciplinary Professions, East Carolina University
Loni Crumb, PhD, LCMHC-S
Clinical Faculty, Southern New Hampshire University; CEO, Soulfulness Counseling
S Anandavalli, PhD, NCC, LPC, CCTP
Innovation in Counseling: Practice and Clinical Service Award
CEO, Zero Overdose; Director of Substance Abuse Prevention, The Institute for Family Health
Thomas McCarry, NCC, LMHC
Global Advancement of Counseling: Community Capacity Award
Clinical Director, Pathways Mental Health Services; Program Director, Mental Health First Response
Arthur Dela Cruz Tolentino, PhD, NCC, ACS, MAC, LMHC, CL, LMFT, LMFT-S, LPC, LPC-S, PRC, SUDP, SAP
Professor, Counselor Education Department, North Carolina State University
Sylvia Nassar, PhD, NCC, ACS, LPC, CDF-I, CSP-T, MHF-T
Join us in celebrating these exceptional individuals and their achievements!
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