Denise Sommers is a Lecturer in the Social Service Administration Concentraton in the Human Services Program.
Currently, she is
a doctoral candidate in Community Counseling from
the University of Missouri Saint Louis. Her
research interests include issues relating to diversity
and multicultural counseling. Her dissertation is entitled The
Use of Service Learning to Develop Multicultural
Counseling Competencies. She
has also prepared public speaking presentations
relating to addiction, mental health, and GLBT
issues.
Her additional academic credits include the Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling and Vocational Evaluation from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and the Bachelor of Science in Human Development from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
Along with her academic accomplishments she brings 25 years of counseling and administrative experience to the HMS Program. She has extensive professional experience with for-profit, non-profit and state government agencies. She has also maintained her own clinical practice for 3 years. She has actively served on various agency and community boards in St. Louis, MO and Springfield, IL. She is an active member of the American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association, and Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development.
When she is not teaching or working on her dissertation she enjoys fishing, canoeing, walking her and her partner's rescued Brittany Spaniels, and working in the yard.
