Rate My Professor Erin West

Dr. West identifies as a practitioner-educator, teaching courses including Counseling Children and Adolescents, Foundations and Ethics, and counseling skill-based courses. She supervises practicum and internship students using developmental and strengths-based approaches. Her clinical experience centers on counseling children, adolescents, and families addressing trauma, anxiety, grief, depression, and behavioral concerns, incorporating person-centered, solution-focused, narrative, and play-based methods. An active scholar, she has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in American Counseling Association journals, presented at local, regional, and national conferences, and served as a reviewer for the Counselor Education and Supervision Journal and the Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy. At the University of Texas at Tyler, she and a colleague received a $1.9 million U.S. Department of Education Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant to improve mental health services in rural East Texas PreK-12 schools. She provides trainings and consultations to K-12 schools and community mental health agencies on child and adolescent mental health and counselor ethics. As founding chair, Dr. West leads the Department of Counseling in the School of Health Sciences and the Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, bolstered by a $1 million grant from the Harding Family Charitable Trust for student scholarships.