Dr. Elizabeth Prosek

Elizabeth A. Prosek (she/her), PhD, LPC, NCC, is Director of Graduate Education for the College of Education and Professor of Education in the Counselor Education program at The Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Prosek prioritizes scholarship on counseling military populations; community engagement and program evaluation; the co-occurrence of behavioral addictions and mental health symptomatology; research methodology; and ethics, exemplary practice, and professional identity development in counseling and counselor education.

Her emphasis area in the master’s program is Clinical Mental Health and Rehabilitation Counseling in Schools and Communities (CMHC CACREP-accredited specialty area). Dr. Prosek advises master’s and doctoral students in Counselor Education, emphasizing researcher and professional identity mentorship.

In the profession, she currently serves on the editorial boards of Counselor Education and Supervision, Teaching and Supervision in Counseling, and Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation. She led the task force that developed the counseling profession's first practice guidelines for working with military populations, Exemplary Practice for Military Populations, which was endorsed by the American Counseling Association. Her professional leadership includes service as President of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (2021-2022) and as Associate Editor for Qualitative Research for the Journal of Counseling & Development (2019-2025). Currently, she is Guest Editor of a special issue series on "Evolving Conditions and Emerging Directions in Counseling Research" for Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation.