
COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES BLOG

CPS Celebrates Mental Health Awareness Month! Georgia State’s Counseling and Psychological Services department is excited to celebrate Mental Health Awareness […]

THE PLAY THERAPY TRAINING INSTITUTE PROUDLY PRESENTS: Terry Kottman, Ph.D., RPT-S, NCC, LMHC You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join with Them… […]

THE PLAY THERAPY TRAINING INSTITUTE PROUDLY PRESENTS: Terry Kottman, Ph.D., RPT-S, NCC, LMHC Creative Play Therapy Interventions Thursday, May 18, […]

Georgia State’s Counseling and Psychological Services department is excited to announce that the School Counseling, M.Ed. program is expanding to the Alpharetta campus!

This interactive workshop provides an overview of an innovative model for intervention in crisis and potentially traumatizing contexts, “Coping with the present while building for the future” (CPBF).

The pandemic has produced a mental health crisis with effects that may reverberate for years — even decades — to come.

Some days during his commute to Georgia State, Ken Rice comes face to face with the subject he studies: Stress.

Jeff Ashby and Kenneth Rice, professors in the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services, are two of eight recipients of the College of Education & Human Development’s Faculty Awards for 2022.

Join us in a virtual celebration to dedicate the Ken Matheny Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma, and Resilience on Thursday, March 10, 2022.

Chloe Beacham, a doctoral student in Georgia State University’s School Psychology Program, was recently named a Bridging the Word Gap (BWG) Emerging Scholar for 2022-2023.

One of our Deans Fellows, Afroze Shaikh, will serve a two-year term as an emerging editorial board member for the […]

CEHD faculty have created a School Safety and Mental Health Services and Supports Consortium to offer various intervention supports to K-12 schools in the metro Atlanta area.

September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and today is World Suicide Prevention Day — a day where the fight to end suicide is recognized on a global platform.

Jasmine Camp is the 2021 recipient of the Outstanding School Psychology Student Award, which is given to students in the school psychology program in recognition of leadership, service, advocacy, scholarship and mentorship.

Elise Choe is the 2021 recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award in Counseling Psychology, which is given to a doctoral student in recognition of academic performance, service to the department and professional promise.

The College of Education & Human Development celebrated Department of Counseling and Psychological Services Associate Professor Andrew Roach during its Faculty Awards Recognition on March 30.




Alumna awarded million-dollar grant to train rehabilitation counselors

Originally from Atlanta, Jasmine Johnson graduated with a master’s degree in school counseling in 2019. She recently self-published her first children’s book entitled, “Mikey’s Lost Toy.”


Kimberly Duff graduated with a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling in 2005. She now runs a private practice, Overcomers Counseling, LLC


story by Claire Miller College of Education & Human Development Professor Catharina Chang has received two national awards for her […]

The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), selected College of Education & Human Development […]

Experts from the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services share how families can consider their child’s needs while fostering growth and connection this summer.

Dr. Brian Dew offers a congratulations message to CPS Spring 2020 graduates.

Ashby and Rice answer questions about their new Coronavirus survey.

Faculty and students in the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services explain how people’s spirituality comes into play during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Doctoral student Mary Chase Mize has been named the 2020 recipient of the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Glen E. Hubele National Graduate Student Award.

By Claire Miller Based on what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) know about the new coronavirus, older […]



The Department of Counseling and Psychological Services celebrates its Honors Day award recipients for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Register for the workshop – Ethical Decision-Making in Play Therapy with Jeff Ashby



An M.S. candidate in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, Karen Murphy won the Association for Play Therapy’s Annual Conference Scholarship.

According to the American Counseling Association (2014), specialized training and supervision are required before engaging in counseling in any specialty area.

Dennis Gilbride and Franco Dispenza will continue preparing cohorts of clinical rehabilitation counselors for positions in the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency, vocational rehabilitation agencies in other states and other affiliated programs.

The NBCC Foundation, an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), selected College of Education & Human Development graduate students Jacklyn J. Byrd and Nicolas Williams for its Minority Fellowship Program.


I began a yoga practice to help manage the rigor of graduate study while completing the program. In the CPS department, there’s a lot of talk about self-care. Making time for yoga helped reduce academic stress and made me a better counselor.


Doctoral student and faculty collaborate on a community-based evaluation of HIV/AIDS interventions for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Brian Dew, Counseling and Psychological Services department chair, recognizes students at the College of Education & Human Development’s Honor’s Day Ceremony.

The College of Education & Human Development hosts a scholar’s banquet each year for students that have been selected to receive awards or scholarships that support their academic endeavors.

Georgia State University announced that many of our graduate programs ranked highly in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report […]

The Department of Counseling and Psychological Services will be hosting Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) Training this Spring 2019, which will serve as an introduction to the full certificate training.

Afrika Hamilton, from Macon, GA has a helping spirit. While an undergraduate at Mercer University, she interned at The Methodist Home. Upon graduating with a bachelor’s in psychology, she took a year off to figure out how she would like to be an arbiter of change in the world.

Tips gathered by professors to help you ace your interview with the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services.

Meet Misty Nelson, a Gates Millennium Scholar and School Psychology M.Ed./Ed.S. student. She’s an Atlanta native who grew up in a two-bedroom, 800 square foot home with ten people.

Assistant professor Laura Shannonhouse and Mary Chase Mize, a doctoral student, introduced Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) to representatives from several organizations who work with aging adults.

CEHD Highlights features Tiffany McNary, director of the Play Therapy Training Institute and clinical assistant professor at Georgia State University.

Kate McPhee was selected to receive the Provost’s Dissertation Fellowship, which supports doctoral students as they complete their dissertations and allows them the opportunity to minimize other obligations.



After I met Dennis Gilbride and he spoke with such fervor, I knew rehab counseling was the right choice. I was attracted to all of the great research Counseling and Psychological Services pumps out.

Artesia Williams is a student in the School Psychology Ph.D. program. She is conducting research on multicultural issues in school psychology.
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