Rachel Vannatta

Rachel Vannatta, PhD, NCC, LCPC, has been in the counseling/counselor education field since 2010. She frequently tells students that she had no interest in Group counseling when she started her first master’s course, and that she alked out of that same course knowing that group work would be a huge part of her professional life. Since then, she has engaged in numerous writing projects around group work, teaching in counselor education, and teaching group work. Rachel has been actively involved in the Association for Specialists in Group Work for a number of years and considers this to be her professional home in the counselor education world. Presently, Rachel is a Senior Training Specialist at the Institute for Innovation and Implementation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where she engages in workforce development to support socio emotional learning and to promote positive mental health outcomes in children and families.