Dr. Ron Hawkins
Ron Hawkins, Ed.D., D.Min., is a Licensed Professional Counselor and currently serves on AACC’s Executive Board. With over 20 years of experience in mental health counseling, he is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Vice Provost at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia and also Professor of Counseling and Practical Theology in the Center for Counseling and Family Studies. He is a pastor, author, and frequent presenter at AACC national conferences, marriage and family conferences, Christian camps and men’s retreats. Dr. Hawkins authored Strengthening Marital Intimacy and The Quick Reference Guide to Biblical Counseling with Dr. Tim Clinton.
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Effective Confrontation
The Opioid Crisis
Bullying Part 1: A message for the bullied child
Building Resilience
My Daily Journey
The Life Changing Power of Gratitude
Professional Life Coaching 101
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Dr. Diane Langberg; Jenkintown, PA
Clinical Psychologist and Chair of the Executive Board of the American Association of Christian Counselors
Stephen Arterburn, M.Ed.
Founder and Chairman of New Life Ministries; Host of the nationally syndicated “New Life Live!” daily radio program; Best-selling Author; Speaker
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Bookstore
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Effective Confrontation
The Opioid Crisis
Bullying Part 1: A message for the bullied child
Building Resilience
My Daily Journey
The Life Changing Power of Gratitude
Professional Life Coaching 101
Jump Start your journey to Becoming a Professional Christian Life CoachClaim The Professional Life Coaching 101 Course For Only $99 (normally $299)Are you looking for a career transition or interested in adding a second income? By completing Professional Life Coaching...
Dr. Diane Langberg; Jenkintown, PA
Clinical Psychologist and Chair of the Executive Board of the American Association of Christian Counselors
Ron L. Deal, M.MFT.
Founder and President of Smart Stepfamilies; President of As For Me and My House Ministries (www.RonDeal.org) and Director of FamilyLife Blended™ for FamilyLife®; Extensive experience in training pastors, ministry leaders, and counselors; Author; Speaker
Sandra Dopf Lee, B.S.
Certified Life Coach; Certified Family Mediator; Mediation Trainer; Founder, Emerge Victorious; Speaker
Sandra Wilson, Ph.D.
Marriage & Family Therapist; Adjunct Seminary Professor; Author; Speaker
Sara E. Trollinger, M.A.
Founder and President, House of Hope, a Christian, non-denominational residential program for troubled teenagers, Orlando, FL.; Author; Speaker
Sharon Hart May, Ph.D.
Founder of the highly acclaimed Haven of Safety Marriage Relationship Intensives and Conferences, Hart Institute in Pasadena, CA; Internationally-known expert in emotionally focused therapy; Author; Speaker
Siang-Yang Tan, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary; Senior pastor of First Evangelical Church Glendale in Glendale, California; distinguished Researcher; Author Speaker
Stanton Jones, Ph.D.
Former Provost, Professor of Psychology, Wheaton College; Author; Speaker
Stephen Arterburn, M.Ed.
Founder and Chairman of New Life Ministries; Host of the nationally syndicated “New Life Live!” daily radio program; Best-selling Author; Speaker
Stephen Greggo, Ph.D.
Chair, Pastoral Counseling and Psychology Department, Professor of Pastoral Counseling and Psychology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL; Speaker
Tom Whiteman, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist; Founder and Director of Life Management Inc; President of Fresh Start Seminars Inc.; Author; Speaker
Tommy Nelson, M.A.
Pastor, Denton Bible Church, Denton, TX; Featured on Focus on the Family, Family Life Today, Josh McDowell, For Faith and Family, and various media outlets
Troy Snyder, M.S.
Nationally Certified Counselor; Licensed Professional Counselor, Paraclete Counseling Center in Alpharetta, GA
Wesley K. Stafford, Ph.D.
President Emeritus, Compassion International; Board of Directors, National Religious Broadcasters
William Cutrer, M.D.
Obstetrician/Gynecologist; infertility specialist; ordained pastor; Associate Professor, Bioethics and Spiritual Formation and Gheens Chair, Family Ministry, Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, KY, until his passing in 2013.
Lisa McMinn, Ph.D.
Writer in Residence, George Fox University; Author; Speaker
Major General Robert F. Dees, M.S., U.S. Army, Retired
President of Resilience Consulting LLC; Associate Vice President for Military Outreach, Adjunct Professor, and Director of the Institute for Military Resilience at Liberty University; Graduate, U.S. Military Academy at West Point; Commanded airborne, air assault, and...
Marian Eberly, R.N., M.S.W.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker; Behavioral Health Consultant;; Speaker
Mark Crawford, Ph.D.
President, Lyles, Crawford, and Petronella Clinical Consulting; Licensed Psychologist; Author; Speaker
Mark Crear, Ph.D.
Two-time Olympic Medalist; Motivational Speaker; Consultant; Chair, Black African American Christian Counselors, AACC; Author; Speaker
Mark Yarhouse, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist; Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist; Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychology at Regent University; Author; Speaker
Marnie Ferree, M.A.
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist; Founder of Bethesda Workshops; Sexual Recovery Specialist; Author; Speaker
Mary Hunt, B.A.
Financial expert; Author; Columnist; Media Personality; Debt-proof Seminar leader
Michael Lyles, M.D.
Founding Partner, Lyles & Crawford Clinical Consulting in Atlanta, GA; Executive Board Member, AACC; Speaker
Michael Sytsma, Ph.D.
Licensed Professional Counselor; Sexual Addiction Specialist; Speaker
Neil Anderson, D.Min., Ed.D.
President Emeritus of Freedom in Christ Ministries; Author of The Bondage Breaker and more than 20 other books; Speaker
Paris Finner-Williams, Ph.D., J.D., Esq.
Licensed Psychologist; Attorney; Forensic Examiner Diplomate; Certified Rehabilitation Counselor; Certified Trauma Services Specialist; Founder and Director, Finner-Williams & Associates; Author; Speaker
Richard Eley, Ph.D.
Certified Life Coach; Corporate Trainer; Speaker
Rolfe Carawan, M.Ed.
Founder and President, Life Matters, Inc.; Leadership Team, Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation; Motivational Speaker; Consultant; Author
Joshua Straub, Ph.D. –
Marriage and Family Strategist for LifeWay Christian Resources; President and Cofounder of The Connextion Group; ; Author; Speaker
Joyce Penner, M.R.N.
Clinical Nurse Specialist; Internationally recognized Sex Therapist; Educator; Author; Speaker
Judi Quilici Timmcke, Ph.D.
Clinical Nutritionist; Technical Consultant; Educator; President, Q-Tech Services, Inc.; Former Vice-President of Research and Development, Weider Nutrition International; Author; Speaker
Julie Clinton, M.Ad., M.B.A.
President, Extraordinary Women; Author, Extraordinary Women: Discovering God’s Dream for Your Life and Live God’s Dream Devotional; Speaker
June Hunt, M.A.
Founder and CEO, Hope For The Heart; Director, Biblical Counseling Library, Radio Personality; Musician; Author; Speaker
Kathie Erwin, Ed.D., LMHC, NCC, NCGC
Associate Professor, School of Psychology and Counseling, Regent University
Katie Brazelton, M.Div., Ph.D.
Life Coach; Founder, Life Purpose Coaching Centers International; Author; Speaker
Kay Arthur
Co-founder, Precept Ministries; Author; Media Personality; Speaker
Kenneth Nichols, Psy.D.
Founder and President, ALIVE Ministries; Executive Director, Board of Christian Professional and Pastoral Counselors; Psychologist; Former Dean of Behavioral Science, Southern California Seminary; Author; Speaker
Kevin Ellers, D.Min.
Territorial Disaster Services Coordinator, Salvation Army, U.S.A. Central Territory; President, Institute for Compassionate Care; Faculty member, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation; Author; Speaker
Leslie Parrott, Ed.D.
Co-Director, Center for Relationship Development, Seattle Pacific University; Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; Co-Editor of the NIV Marriage Devotional Bible; Best-selling Author; Speaker
Leslie Vernick, M.S.W.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker; Author; Speaker
Linda Mintle, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker; Eating Disorders and Infertility Specialist; Chair of Behavioral Health, Associate Professor, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Liberty University; Author; Speaker
Joni Eareckson Tada
President, Joni and Friends; Founder, Joni and Friends Disability Center; Member, Disability Advisory Committee, U.S. State Department; Columnist; Author; Award-winning Artist; Media Personality
John Trent, Ph.D.
Gary Chapman Chair of Marriage and Family , Moody Bible Institute; President, Encouraging Words and StrongFamilies.com; Educator; Author; Corporate Consultant; Speaker
John Ortberg, Ph.D.
Senior Pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church; Member Board of Trustees, Fuller Theological Seminary; Author; Speaker
John Baker, M.B.A.
Founder, Celebrate Recovery; Author; Speaker
Jill Briscoe
Bible Teacher; Executive Editor, Just Between Us magazine; Board Member, World Relief; Board Member, Christianity Today; Author; Speaker
Jennifer Cisney Ellers, M.A.
Executive Director, Institute for Compassionate Care; National Coordinator, AACC Crisis Response Team; Certified CISM Trainer, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation; Executive Director, Board of Christian Crisis & Trauma Response; Author; Speaker
Mark Shadoan, M.S.W., Ed.D.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker; Clinical Director, Light Counseling, Lynchburg, VA; Author, AACC’s Christian Counselor’s Treatment Planner
Norman Wright, M.A., M.R.E.
Licensed Marriage, Family & Child Therapist; Former Director of the Graduate Department of Marriage, Family and Child Counseling, Biola University; Research Professor of Christian Education, Talbot School of Theology; Author; Speaker
Gregg Jantz, Ph.D.
Licensed Mental Health Counselor; Certified Chemical Dependency Professional; Certified Eating Disorder Specialist; Founder of The Center: A Place of HOPE; Author; Speaker
Greg Smalley, Psy.D.
Psychologist; Vice President of Marriage and Family Formation, Focus on the Family; Author; Speaker
Glenn Wagner, Ph.D.
Former Board Member and Vice-President of Promise Keepers; Author; Speaker
Georgia Shaffer, M.A.
Psychologist; Professional Life Coach; Producer, syndicated radio feature, The Mourning Glory Minute; Founder and Executive Director, Mourning Glory Ministries; Author; Speaker
George Ohlschlager, M.S.W., J.D.
Executive Consultant to the AACC; Member, AACC Ethics Committee; Author; Speaker
Gary Smalley, M.Div., Ed.D.
Former President and Founder, Smalley Relationship Center; A best-selling author, TV and Radio guest, and speaker before his passing in 2016
Gary Sibcy, Ph.D.
Director, Ph.D. Program in Counseling and Research and Evaluation Center at the Center for Counselor Education and Family Studies at Liberty University; Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Piedmont Psychiatric Center; Co-authored several books with Dr. Tim Clinton,...
Gary Oliver, Th.M., Ph.D.
Professor and Executive Director, John Brown University Center for Relationship Enrichment; Executive Board Member, AACC; Author; Speaker
Gary Moon, Ph.D.
Executive Director of the Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture and the Dallas Willard Center for Christian Spiritual Formation at Westmont College; Director of the Renovaré International Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation; Author; Speaker
Gary Chapman, M.R.E., Ph.D.
Senior Associate Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC; Best-selling Author of the Five Love Languages; Speaker
Everett Worthington, Jr.,Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University; Director, A Campaign for Forgiveness Research; Founding editor, Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal; Author; Speaker
Erin Smalley, B.S.N, M.A.
Registered Nurse; Marriage Strategic Spokesperson, Focus on the Family; Best-selling Author; Speaker
Ed Maynard, Ph.D.
Lighthouse Counseling Service, Charlotte, NC; Co-author, Healing for the City: Counseling in the Urban Setting; Speaker
Ed Hindson, D.Phil., D.Min., Th.D.
Professor and Dean, School of Religion, and Assistant to the Chancellor, Liberty University; Author; Speaker
Douglas Rosenau, Ed.D.
Licensed Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist; Certified Sex Therapist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Sexology; Co-founder of Sexual Wholeness, Inc.; Professor for the Institute for Sexual Wholeness, Psychological Studies Institute in Atlanta,...
Dennis Rainey, M.A., D.D.
President, CEO, and Co-founder of Family Life, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ International; Best-selling Author; Speaker
Debra Taylor, M.A.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; Certified Sex Therapist; Author; Speaker
Debbie Laaser, M.A.
Sexual Addiction Counselor; Author; Speaker
David Jenkins, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist; Professor of Counseling and the Director of the M.A. in Addiction Counseling program, Department of Counselor Education and Family Studies, Liberty University; Board Member, Society for Christian Psychology; Author; Speaker
David Hall, Psy.D.
CEO and Clinical Director of Haven Family Psychiatry; Academic Director of the Narrative Institute; Author; Speaker
Dave Carder, M.A.
Pastor, Counseling Ministries at First Evangelical Free Church, Fullerton, CA. Author; Speaker
Daniel S. Sweeney, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate Department of Counseling, George Fox University, Portland, OR; Director of the Northwest Center for Play Therapy Studies, George Fox University; Board Member, Association for Play Therapy; Author; Speaker
Daniel Amen, M.D.
Director and Founder of The Amen Clinic for Behavioral Medicine; Nuclear Brain Imaging Specialist; Board-certified in General Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry; Best-selling Author; Regular appearances on his own national PBS specials.
Dan Allender, Ph.D.
Professor of Counseling, The Allender Center at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology; Founder and Director, Wounded Heart Ministries; Ordained Presbyterian minister; Author; Speaker
Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, M.Ed.
Founder, Manager and CEO of AppLe St. (Applied Learning Styles); Established expert in various learning practices
Connie Neal, M.S.
Author; Women’s Conference Speaker
Clifford Penner, M.A., Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist; Internationally-recognized Sexual Therapist; Educator; Author; Speaker
Claudia Arp, B.S.
Co-founder and Co-director, Marriage Alive International; Best-selling Author; Speaker.
Christopher McCluskey, M.S.W.
President of the Professional Christian Coaching Institute; Certified Life Coach; Certified Sex Therapist; Radio Personality; Author; Speaker
Chris Thurman, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist; Author; Speaker
Chaplain Thomas E. Webb, Th.M.
President, Webb & Associates Chaplaincy Consulting; Former Navy Chaplain; CISM Team Member, Camp Pendleton, CA; Speaker.
Chaplain Charles C. Baldwin, M.Div.
Major General, U.S. Air Force, Retired; Former United States Air Force Chief of Chaplains; Member of the Armed Forces Chaplains Board.
Chap Clark, Ph.D.
Associate Provost for Strategic Projects and Professor and Chair of Youth, Family, and Culture, Fuller Theological Seminary; Teaching Team of Harbor Christian Center in Gig Harbor, Washington; President of ParenTeen and Harbor Hope Services; Author; Speaker
Catherine Hart Weber, Ph.D.
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist; founder of the Flourish Center for Life and Relationships; Author; Speaker; Seminar Leader.
Captain Jim Nelms
State Coordinator, Georgia Crisis Response Team; Leader, Henry/Clayton CISM Team; Faculty Member, CISM Instructor at International Critical Incident Stress Foundation
Brooks Lines, M.A.
Counselor, North Atlanta Center for Christian Counseling.
Beth Fletcher Brokaw, Ph.D.
Psychologist; Adjunct Professor, Biola University; Author; Speaker, until her passing in 2013.
Basyle J. (Boz) Tchividjian, J.D.
Professor of Law, Liberty University; Founder & executive director of GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment); Former Assistant State Attorney, Seventh Judicial Circuit; Former Chief Prosecutor, Sexual Crimes Division; Attorney and Advisory...
Barbara Shaffer, Ph.D.
Psychologist; Author; Speaker.
Barbara Rosberg, B.F.A.
Media Personality; Author; Speaker.
Archibald Hart, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Licensed Psychologist; Certified Biofeedback Practitioner; Board Certified Diplomate Fellow in Psychopharmacology; International Director, AACC;...
Keith Ethridge, M.Div.
Acting Director, Veterans Affairs National Chaplain Center; Member, Military Chaplains Association.