Anna Elliott

Associate Professor

PRONOUNS She/her

anna.h.elliott@uvm.edu
Anna Elliott
anna.h.elliott@uvm.edu

208 Colchester Ave
111A Mann Hall
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
Project CORE (Community-based participatory research and Restorative practices in Education)
Pronouns She/her
Alma mater(s)
  • PhD, Counselor Education and Counseling, Idaho State University
  • MA, Community Mental Health, Antioch University New England
  • BA, Psychology, University of Massachusetts
Affiliated Department(s)

Department of Counseling, Human Development and Family Science

BIO

Dr. Anna Elliott's teaching and supervision is grounded in a social constructivist philosophy where collaboration and empowerment are central. Her coursework as an instructor has included multicultural awareness, family theories, rural counseling, diagnosis, trauma, and clinical lab courses. As an active mental health clinician, she specializes in working with families, adolescents, and trauma recovery from a relational-cultural psychodynamic approach.

Dr. Elliott's research and scholarship centers around enhancing counselor development and improving and increasing mental health access. On a micro level, this involves exploring what factors enhance counselor-in-training development. On a macro level, her grant activity and research focus on how to systemically address mental health needs in rural communities.

Courses

  • CNSL 6750 - Lab Experience in Counseling
  • CNSL 6930 - Advanced Group Counseling

Awards and Achievements

Outstanding Faculty Award, Montana State University College of Education and Health & Human Development (2021)

Area(s) of expertise

  • Rural Mental Health
  • Family Counseling
  • Trauma Healing
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Relational Cultural Counseling

Bio

Dr. Anna Elliott's teaching and supervision is grounded in a social constructivist philosophy where collaboration and empowerment are central. Her coursework as an instructor has included multicultural awareness, family theories, rural counseling, diagnosis, trauma, and clinical lab courses. As an active mental health clinician, she specializes in working with families, adolescents, and trauma recovery from a relational-cultural psychodynamic approach.

Dr. Elliott's research and scholarship centers around enhancing counselor development and improving and increasing mental health access. On a micro level, this involves exploring what factors enhance counselor-in-training development. On a macro level, her grant activity and research focus on how to systemically address mental health needs in rural communities.

Courses

  • CNSL 6750 - Lab Experience in Counseling
  • CNSL 6930 - Advanced Group Counseling

Awards and Achievements

Outstanding Faculty Award, Montana State University College of Education and Health & Human Development (2021)

Areas of Expertise

  • Rural Mental Health
  • Family Counseling
  • Trauma Healing
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Relational Cultural Counseling