Biography:

Courtney Zongrone is a licensed professional counselor and board-approved LPC supervisor in Virginia with extensive experience working in community and college mental health settings. She is passionate about building meaningful relationships with her clients to achieve positive change.

Top 5 Clifton Strengths:

• Relator | Learner | Achiever | Focus | Intellection

Education:

• PhD, Counselor Education and Supervision – Virginia Tech
• MEd, Clinical Mental Health Counseling – University of Lynchburg
• BA, English Literature – University of Lynchburg

Job Responsibilities:

• Manages the day-to-day operations of the counseling services office.
• Leads the Counseling Services team, including supervising staff like the Assistant Director, counselors, and the office assistant.
• Provides counseling services to undergraduate and graduate students.
• Helps handle mental health emergencies by sharing on-call duties with other staff members.
• Provides support to faculty and staff about student mental health concerns.

What are you passionate about?

Live music

Awards:

• Zongrone, C. (2023). From Compliance to Alliance: Strengthening the Working Alliance in Mandated Treatment (Doctoral dissertation, Virginia Tech).
• Zongrone, C., McCall, C., Paretti, M. C., Shew, A., Simmons, D. R., & McNair, L. D. (2021). “I’m looking at you, you’re a perfectly good person …”: Describing Non-Apparent Disability in Engineering.” American Society for Engineering Education.