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Dr. Monica P. Band is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Department at Marymount University in Arlington, VA. Monica currently works in a private practice setting providing individual, couples, and career counseling as a resident in counseling. She specializes in grief/loss, past trauma, and cultural identity issues. As a counselor, Monica identifies as an existential humanist and enjoys using mindfulness techniques while incorporating restorative conversations about cultural identities. Additionally, Monica previously worked on an interdisciplinary mental health team that provided 24 hour services to those impacted by chronic homelessness, serve mental health issues, and duel diagnoses. She also has experience working in residential programs for adults, outpatient day programs for adolescents and adults, and university counseling settings. She believes her role as a counselor and her diverse clinical experience informs and enhances her abilities as a faculty member. In her free time, you can find her reading or traveling with her husband and golden retriever. Monica also enjoys: classic rock music, conversations about culture, coffee, and sarcasm.
Dr. Jason McGlothlin has been providing mental health services since 1993 and is an independently Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with Supervisory endorsement in Ohio. He is a tenured Associate Professor at Kent State University in the Counselor Education and Supervision program. Prior to joining the KSU faculty (in 2001), he practiced in community mental health, private practice, and suicide prevention facilities. Throughout the years, Dr. McGlothlin has had a variety of local, state, and national leadership positions in the counseling profession but is known mostly for his work with suicidal individuals. Related to assessing and treating suicidal clients, he has written books and articles and has presented and consulted nationally and internationally over the past 25 years. Most recently, he has studied over 60,000 suicidal individuals who contact suicide prevention hotlines. As a result of his research, he has validated his model titled the SIMPLE STEPS Model of Suicide Assessment which accounts for nearly 70% of high levels of suicide lethality.
To support his research agenda, he has a small private practice called McGlothlin Counseling & Consultation, LLC. The focus of Dr. McGlothiln’s practice rests in an Existential and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) theoretical orientation. Basically, he believes that people go through horrible events but under the right conditions, they can learn from and grow from those events to make life better. Also, through counseling, he and the client will work collaboratively to help them build a life that they experience as worth living.
Dr. McGlothlin believes that our experiences (both good and bad) shape who we are and how we relate to one another. From a young age, he had loved ones leave, pass away from cancer, and attempt suicide. Though through resilience, support, and love he now lives a wonderful life in Rootstown, Ohio with his wife, children, and two bulldogs.
To support his research agenda, he has a small private practice called McGlothlin Counseling & Consultation, LLC. The focus of Dr. McGlothiln’s practice rests in an Existential and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) theoretical orientation. Basically, he believes that people go through horrible events but under the right conditions, they can learn from and grow from those events to make life better. Also, through counseling, he and the client will work collaboratively to help them build a life that they experience as worth living.
Dr. McGlothlin believes that our experiences (both good and bad) shape who we are and how we relate to one another. From a young age, he had loved ones leave, pass away from cancer, and attempt suicide. Though through resilience, support, and love he now lives a wonderful life in Rootstown, Ohio with his wife, children, and two bulldogs.