Dr. Gregory Elliott Treasurer
Dr. Gregg Elliott is the Director of Counseling Programs and an Associate Professor at Northwestern College in Orange City, IA (as a remote employee). He was the 2020 - 2021 president of the Colorado Counseling Association and he is the 2022-2023 Chair-Elect of the American Counseling Association Western Region. He will serve as the 2023-2024 Chair. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision at Adams State University. Dr. Elliott has been a licensed professional counselor in the state of Colorado since 2006. He is dually-licensed as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa. His clinical experiences include directing a university counseling center, working in a partial hospitalization program for severely mentally ill adults, working in an inpatient hospital setting with adults and adolescents, and working with at-risk youth and families. His clinical specialization has been in working with suicidal clients. Dr. Elliott also maintains a small clinical supervision practice for counselors working to obtain their supervised hours for licensure. Dr. Elliott has presented at numerous national and regional conferences on topics related to clinical supervision, online education, and suicide prevention, intervention, and treatment, and other topics. His most recent publications focus on the ways counseling students are prepared to work with suicidal clients.
<div style="display:none"Dr. Gregg Elliott is the 2020 – 2021 President of the Colorado Counseling Association. He has been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 2003 and has been licensed in the State of Colorado since 2006. He has a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Adams State University and is an Assistant Professor in Colorado Christian University's Master of Arts in Counseling program.
Dr. Elliott’s clinical expertise and research interests are in working with suicidal clients and in training mental health clinicians to work with suicidal clients. Dr. Elliott served as the President of the Collegiate Career Services Association of Colorado and Wyoming (CCSA) from 2008 - 2009 and was a Rocky Mountain Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (RMACES) Emerging Leaders award winner in 2016.
He is a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Colorado Counseling Association (CCA), the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), RMACES, Chi Sigma Iota (CSI), and the American Association of Suicidology (AAS). Dr. Elliott has recent publications on the topics of online teaching and self-efficacy to work with suicidal clients, and best practices in suicide training pedagogy.
He is currently working with a research team exploring the lived experiences of adult adoptees with complicated grief and the current state of the church in addressing the needs of vulnerable populations.