Dr. Stephen Jennings, PhD is a licensed professional counselor supervisor (LPCS), and licensed sex offender treatment provider supervisor (LSOTP-S) in the state of Texas. He is an Assistant Professor at the West Texas A&M University Clinical Mental Health Program. He was inducted as a Distinguished Graduate at West Texas A&M University in 2017. He and his wife, Lynn, have been in private practice for 20 years. He has authored/co-authored several articles and book chapters on the subjects of marriage and family therapy, career counseling, middle school bullying, crisis intervention, ethics, and secondary traumatic stress. He is first author/editor on a private practice textbook, Building a Private Counseling Practice: Nuts and Bolts of Running an Ethical and Profitable Business, which was published by Cognella Academic Publishing Company in October 2024.