Lisa Sosin, a professor in the department of counselor education and family studies at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, will be the first recipient of an award named in her honor by the Association for Creativity in Counseling. The organization is a division of the American Counseling Association. It was established in 2004 as a forum for counselors, counselor educators, and counseling students interested in creative, diverse, and relational approaches to counseling.
Future recipients will be ACC members who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to the values of ACC, which include:
- Contagious energy and spirit.
- Promoting counseling approaches that support mutually supportive, positive, growth-fostering relationships.
- Researching and de\ning relational competencies that facilitate goodwill, empathic personal and professional connections, as well as appropriate use of power in the profession.
Dr. Sosin also serves as director of the Ph.D. program in counselor education and supervision at Liberty University. Her primary research interests include the integration of creativity, spirituality, and counseling, doctoral student persistence, qualitative research related to counseling practice, and emotion regulation.
Professor Sosin is a graduate of the State University of New York. She holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the Michigan School of Professional Psychology and a Ph.D. in professional counseling from Liberty University.