Alicia Hall is a practicing counselor and doctoral candidate who has practiced as a clinical mental health counselor since 2010 and specializes in trauma. Her current clinical work is in private practice, and is passionate about serving children, couples, and families. However, her counseling experience has spanned all ages in settings such as community mental health, school and home-based settings, and hospitals. Alicia has taught graduate courses as an adjunct and guest lecturer on trauma counseling, vicarious trauma, and trauma across the lifespan. She has provided conference sessions and trainings locally, state-wide, nationally, and internationally on counseling, resiliency and trauma for past 13 years. Alicia engages actively in advocacy for mental health recovery and resiliency and has served in various leadership roles for the Association for Humanistic Counseling, North Central ACES, and the Ohio Counseling Association, including her most recent service as founder and inaugural president of the Ohio Association for Resiliency and Trauma Counseling.