Eric Williams

PhD, LCMHCS, LMFT Assistant Professor

Dr. Eric A. Williams’ time as a counselor has seen him in many places; he has experience as a counselor in community mental health, private practice, child development centers, grade schools and military bases. He was worked with military families and with children and adolescents in areas such as mental health and substance abuse. Williams is also a U.S. Army veteran paratrooper who served during 9/11.

In a recent interview about the threeday intensive that every clinical mental health counseling student completes at the start of the program, Williams remarked that a strength of the intensive is that it brings people from a variety of backgrounds together to discuss counseling and identity.

“There are different shades of how to become a counselor,” he said. “There are different shades of what it looks like to be a counselor. Everybody’s experience is different, and we like the opportunity to really bring these different experiences together.”

The same is true beyond the three-day intensive. For each of HU’s clinical mental health counseling faculty, the journey to becoming a counselor looked different. At the center of each, however, was the heart of what it means to be a counselor.

That’s the call on the hearts of so many counselors: to be a shepherd.

A Master of Arts degree in clinical mental health counseling can help you answer that call. Huntington University offers Christ-centered counselor training that equips you to engage diverse cultural contexts through

• Cultivation of clinical skills

• Critical thinking

• Academic excellence