Ann Vernon

Ann Vernon, PhD, ScD, LPC, is president of the Albert Ellis Board of Trustees, one of the first diplomates of the Albert Ellis Institute, a member of the International Training Standards and Review Committee of the Albert Ellis Institute, a memberof the Board of Consulting Advisors for the Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, and former director of the Midwest Center for rational emotive behavior therapy. In addition, she was selected by the American Psychological Association to do a counseling video demonstration titled Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Over Time: Psychotherapy in Six Sessions. Dr. Vernon is recognized as the leading international expert in applications of rational emotive and cognitive behavior therapy (RE&CBT) with children and adolescents and has written numerous books, chapters, and articles about counseling this population, including Thinking, Feeling, Behaving: An Emotional Education Curriculum; What Works When With Children and Adolescents: A Handbook of Individual Counseling Techniques; The Passport Program; and More What Works When With Children and Adolescents. 

Dr. Vernon is a professor emerita of the University of Northern Iowa, where she served as coordinator of the school and mental health counseling 

programs for many years. In addition to her university appointment, Dr. Vernon was in private practice for many years, applying RE&CBT with 

children and adolescents as well as with couples and individuals. She has been a frequent presenter at national conferences and has presented 

RE&CBT workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and several countries in Europe and South America. Currently she is a visiting professor at the University of Oradea in Romania, where she teaches courses in school and mental health counseling and continues to do RE&CBT trainings around the world