ATLANTA, GA – February 27, 2017 – The hallmark of a Richmont faculty member is the desire to serve the entire field o
f counseling, whether through research, collaboration across disciplines, or serving in national organizations. The latter is true for Dr. Keith Myers, who has just been elected Director of the Executive Board of the Military & Government Counseling Association (MGCA), a division of the American Counseling Association (ACA).
Dr. Steve Bradshaw, Dean of the School of Counseling, says of Myers’s election, “We are never surprised, although always humbled, when Richmont faculty are granted positions of honor in prestigious organizations, such as the ACA. Dr. Myers’s contribution to the field is an important and impressive one.”
The Military & Government Counseling Association (MGCA) provides therapeutic counseling and educational programming to those associated with the armed services. Myers himself describes it this way: “As a division of the ACA, the MGCA focuses on the growth and development of counselors, counseling students, and counselor educators who work directly with the military population and their families. Given my work with veterans over the last six years in my practice and in the community, this role is a good fit for me, and I look forward to serving in this capacity.” Myers was nominated to the position by a fellow MGCA member and consequently voted in. He will serve a two-year term.
Dr. Vanessa Snyder, Richmont’s interim President, says, “Dr. Myers is an exceptional professional and clinician. His work with veterans’ issues is critical to military individuals as well as our communities and nation as a whole. Servicemen and their families have experienced healing and restoration due to Dr. Myers’s clinical work, and I am excited to see how God will use him in his tenure as Director of the MGCA Executive Board.”
Myers is an Assistant Professor of Counseling at Richmont and a licensed professional counselor (LPC). He has worked as a clinical mental health professional for over 13 years, specializing in trauma and veterans’ issues. Having grown up in a military family himself, Myers is well suited to the work and enjoys it. He says, “I get to sit with people within the midst of their darkness, in their pain, and I get to bear witness. There’s something in that bearing witness that I get to see observable changes in their lives.”
Read more about Myers and the MGCA here.