Ryan Bowers, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, CAADC

BIOGRAPHY:

Ryan is a practicing licensed professional counselor (LPC) focusing on clinical mental health and substance use disorders with individuals, couples, families, and groups. He is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CAADC) and formerly a Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider (CSTOP). When not teaching in Immaculata University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, you can find Ryan working with and mentoring students to become the best counselors they can be while supporting students who wish to pursue doctoral degrees.

Selected Publications:

• Bowers, R. & Fritz, B. (2024). Client spirituality as a mediator for recovery measured through emerging assessments: Exploring the phenomenology of spiritual diversity in professional counseling. 2024 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Hawkins, M. & Bowers, R. (2024). Into the Woods We Go. Mitigating neuropsychological symptoms in college-aged adults through the process of hiking and other physical activities. 2024 Scholarship and Creative Arts Days, Elizabethtown College.
• Bowers, R., Martinson, D. E., & Cohen, J. (2022). Treating the Family System: Addiction Beyond the Individual. 2022 Pennsylvania Certification Board Conference, Lancaster, PA.
• Bowers. R. (2021) Motivational interviewing for school counselors. In Hamlet. H (Eds.) School counseling practicum and internship: 30 Essential lessons (2nd ed). Cognella Academic Publishing
• Bowers, R. (2021). Counseling supervision: The ethics behind practice and theory. 2021 Pennsylvania Counseling Association Conference, King of Prussia, PA.
• Bowers, R. (2021). Diversifying mentorship in counselor education: Exploring variables and behaviors associated with effective mentorship. 2021 Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors Conference, Atlanta, GA.
• Cohen, J., Tracy, S., Rodriguez, F., & Bowers, R. (2020). Therapeutic change factors in Alcoholics Anonymous. The Person-Centered Journal. (Vol. 25, No. 1-2). Association for the Development of The Person-Centered Approach.
• Bowers, R. & Hamlet, H. (2020). The development of professional responsibility in counselor training. International Journal on Responsibility. Harrisonburg, VA.: James Madison University Scholarly Commons

Courses Taught:

• Theories of Counseling
• Group Process
• Substance Abuse Education and Counseling
• Practicum in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
• Internship in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Research Interests:

Clinical Supervision, Spirituality and 12-Step Processes, Counselor Identity Developmental Models, Quantitative Clinical Counseling Assessment Creation, and Mixed-Method Exploration of Doctoral Student Outcomes.