Marie Isom

Dr. Marie Isom has been teaching in higher education since 2011. She has 19 years of experience at the elementary and secondary levels in public school counseling. Dr. Isom has worked in private practice and in telehealth, providing psychotherapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families. She has experience as a laboratory assistant for various undergraduate and graduate research departments and has participated in writing and revising accepted federal grant proposals for counseling programs offered in Northern Virginia. She has worked in community mental health as a counselor for children's grief camps, worked as a crisis responder serving seven counties in Michigan, and helped facilitate after school programs in Northern Virginia for middle school students that would be first generation college students. Dr. Isom's research interests include resiliency, trauma, grief and loss, group counseling, and counselor education and supervision.