Faculty

Jenifer Cisney, M.A., is director of Professional Relations for the American Association of Christian Counselors. She received her master’s degree in counseling from Wake Forest University and has worked in the field of Christian counseling since 1994. She specializes in working with issues of grief, crisis, and trauma. Jennifer currently serves as Coordinator for AACC’s National Crisis Response Team and is a Trained Trainer through the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. She was director of AACC’s Soul Care Trip in New York City following 9/11.

Tim Clinton , ED.D., LPC, LMFT, is president of the nearly 50,000-member AACC and is Professor of Counseling and Executive Director of the Liberty University Center for Counseling and Family Studies. He is a popular speaker and author of several best-selling books.

David Jenkins , Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist and serves as Associate Professor of Counseling and the Coordinator of Clinical Training in the Center for Counseling and Family Studies at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. He serves on the Executive Board of the Society for Christian Psychology and as clinical director of the International Board of Christian Counselors of the American Association of Christian Counselors. He has worked extensively with addictive, mood, and anxiety disorders in the context of individual, marital, family, and group therapy.

Leroy Scott, Jr., M.S., M.Div., LHMC, is a licensed professional counselor, minister, motivational speaker and the founder of Agape Family Counseling Center in Eatonville, Florida. In 2003, Leroy founded and organized the Central Florida Christian Counselor Conference – a local conference that supports the training of pastoral counselors and ministry leaders.

Diane Langberg, Ph.D., chairs AACC’s Executive Board and is a licensed psychologist with Diane Langberg & Associates in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She is also the author of Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse and On the Threshold of Hope: Opening the Door to Healing for Survivors of Sexual Abuse (both Tyndale).

Eric Scalise, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT, is an author, speaker, and Vice President for Professional Development at AACC and the former Dept. Chair for Counseling Programs at Regent University. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with over 29 years of clinical experience. He is also President of Beacon Counseling & Consulting located in Tidewater, VA.

Ronald E. Hawkins, D.Min ., Ed.D., B.A., Barrington College; M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; Ed.S., Lynchburg College; D.Min., Westminster Theological Seminary; Ed.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Licensed Professional Counselor; Dean, Liberty University, College of Arts & Sciences.