Dr. Christine J. Schimmel is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair in the School of Counseling and Well-Being at West Virginia University, along with serving as the grant co-investigator. She is also a fully-certified Youth Mental Health First Aid instructor. Dr. Schimmel coordinates the counseling program. She specifically focuses her energies working with and training pre-service school counselors. In that role, Dr. Schimmel provides supervision to students in field experiences. A former school counselor herself, Dr. Schimmel has spent the last 20 years providing staff development and conference workshops on topics relevant to school counselors, clinical mental health counselors, and teachers. She has presented on topics such as Impact Therapy, creative counseling techniques, counseling theory, dealing with students who exhibit problematic behaviors, growth mindset, protective factors, and group counseling. Dr. Schimmel has published more than 10 articles, books, book chapters, and monographs on these subjects as well. Along with her colleague, Dr. Ed Jacobs, they have published one of the most widely used Group Counseling textbooks on the market, Group Counseling: Strategies and Skills which is now in its 9th edition. In December of 2018, her textbook with co-editor Dr. Ann Vernon, Counseling Children & Adolescents, was released. It is currently Cognella’s number one selling textbook. Here most recent texts, A School Counselor’s Guide to Small Groups (2022, 2nd ed.) and Applying Neuroscience to Counseling Children & Adolescents: A Guide to Brain Based Experiential Interventions were recently released by Cognella.