Associate Professor Laura Shannonhouse is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Trainer (ASIST) and a Suicide to Hope (s2H) Facilitator. Her clinical experiences have included working with disaster-impacted populations both domestically and internationally, and her research interests focus on crisis intervention and disaster response. She also conducts research on suicide prevention, older adults and equipping faith-based communities to help.