Janet Froeschle Hicks, Ph.D., LPC is a licensed professional counselor and certified school counselor who currently serves as Department Chair & Professor of Mental Health Counseling at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She was inducted into the American Counseling Association Fellows in 2015 and has written approximately 80 publications. She has served as a media expert at national and state levels on topics related to child, adolescent, and family counseling and serves professionally through many volunteer activities. For example, Dr. Hicks served as Special Events Chair for the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, Research Committee Co-Chair for the Texas Counseling Association, and currently serves as By-Laws Committee Chair for the Tennessee Counseling Association. She is past president of the Tennessee Counseling Association. Dr. Hicks has researched and written over 80 publications and presented numerous times on topics related to child, adolescent, family, and school counseling. She currently serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Women and Minorities in Engineering and her work has appeared in journals such as Professional School Counseling, Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, Middle School Journal, Journal of School Counseling, The Family Journal, and International Journal of Play Therapy, among others. In addition, her work has been demonstrated in invited presentations at the American Counseling Association Conference & Expo as well as in Counseling Today articles. She has received numerous awards including induction into the 2015 ACA Fellows, 2008 and 2009 High Plains Counseling Association Outstanding Counselor Award, the 2010-2011 Texas Tech University Hemphill Wells New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award and 2014 Barney Rushing Outstanding College Research Award.