Dr. Christine Ciecierski Berger earned her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision and her Master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, MD. She has been a counselor educator for 16 years and she was most recently a counselor educator at UTRGV in the Rio Grande Valley in TX and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in VA and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in MD. She is also an approved clinical supervisor in VA. Her clinical work focuses on trauma. In recent years, Christine has offered general mental health counseling through telehealth platforms, one of which focuses on services to undergraduate, graduate, medical, and other professional programs. Christine has been a member of ACA, ACES, SACES, and ACC and served as a Trustee of the Association for Creativity in Counseling for 6 years.
Christine has taught nearly all CACEP counseling and enjoys all of them. The courses Christine enjoys the most are field courses of Practicum and Internship, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Group Counseling, Theories of Counseling, and Ethics.
Her research interests focus on complementary and alternative therapies and their evidence-based application to mental health treatment.