indiana counseling association

MISSION STATEMENT

The Indiana Counseling Association is committed to enhancing the counseling profession and the professional counselors who serve others. The Indiana Counseling Association is dedicated to advocating the counseling profession and empowering individuals, families, and communities, including providing ethical, diverse, and culturally-sensitive practices and appropriate treatment.

HISTORY OF ICA

The Indiana Counseling Association was founded in December 1960 by the initiative of a Faculty Member of Notre Dame University. Its name, at the time, was related to "personnel & human resources." However, seven years later (in February 1967) ICA was incorporated as a nonprofit organization in Indiana and in 1970 it was granted the tax-exempt status (501, c, 3 status) by the Internal Revenue Service.

ICA’s overall operations and affairs are governed by the Board of Directors and various Standing Committees, an all-volunteer team of counselors from throughout the state. We'd love to have you. Why not volunteer to lend your talent, your knowledge, your invaluable experience, and your enthusiasm?

It won’t interfere

The Association is fully aware that you have a “day job,” so you will not be asked to sacrifice your attention to your daily work. As current and past volunteers will tell you, when lots of people each do a little, no one has to do a lot.

You could:

• Serve on the Board
• Serve on a Committee
  
• Make a presentation for a webinar or at the annual conference
• Recruit your colleagues to join

Apply to be on the Board of Directors for the 2021-2022 Year: ICA Board of Directors Nomination Form 

See our Bylaws here: ICA_Bylaws_Final_1_.pdf

Dissertation Research Study Requests: Submit a Dissertation Research Study Request

2020-2021 Board of Directors 

EXECUTIVE BOARD

President-Elect

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President

Carissa Lopez-Bockus, MS, LMHC

Immediate Past President

Cheryl Warner, PhD

Executive Director

Tilija Drobnjakovic, EdD 

CPA 
Paul Backer, CPA

Treasurer

Anthony M. McCrovitz, PhD, LMHC

Secretary
Emeline Eckart, PhD, LPC-S, NCC


COMMITTEES

Legislative Committee Chair

Dale V Wayman, PhD, LCAC, LMHC, ACS

Membership Committee Chair
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Chair

Dynetta Clark, LMHC, NBCC

PROFESSIONAL-INTEREST DIVISIONS

Indiana School Counselor Association (ISCA) Representative

Jen Money-Brady, Ed.D., NCC, DCC 

Director of Counselor Education & Supervision (ICES)  

Aleksandar Drobnjakovic, PhD

Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC) Representative

Michael Trexler, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC 

REPRESENTATIVE POSITIONS

IndiATA (Art Therapy) Representative 

Kaitlin Knapp, MA, ATR, LMHC

Student Representative

Isabella Betancourt, BA, Counseling Graduate Student at the University of Indianapolis

LMHC Representative

Jama Davis, Ph.D., LMHC (IN), LCMHC (NC), NCC, ACS

LMFT Representative

Robert Atchison, PhD, LMFT, NCC

LCAC Representative

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LCSW Representative

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2021-2022 Board of Directors: Beginning July 1, 2021

EXECUTIVE BOARD

President-Elect

open

President

Michael Trexler, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC 

Immediate Past President

Carissa Lopez-Bockus, MS, LMHC

Executive Director

Tilija Drobnjakovic, EdD 

CPA 
Paul Backer, CPA

Treasurer

Anthony M. McCrovitz, PhD, LMHC

Secretary
Emeline Eckart, PhD, LPC-S, NCC


COMMITTEES

Legislative Committee Chair

Dale V Wayman, PhD, LCAC, LMHC, ACS

Membership Committee Chair
open

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Chair

Dynetta Clark, LMHC, NBCC

PROFESSIONAL-INTEREST DIVISIONS

Indiana School Counselor Association (ISCA) Representative

Jen Money-Brady, Ed.D., NCC, DCC 

Director of Counselor Education & Supervision (ICES)  

Aleksandar Drobnjakovic, PhD

Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC) Representative

Matthias Beier, Ph.D., LMHC (IN), DCMHS, LP (NY), NCPsyA

REPRESENTATIVE POSITIONS

IndiATA (Art Therapy) Representative 

Kaitlin Knapp, MA, ATR, LMHC

Student Representative

Ariana Gleckman,  Counseling Graduate Student 

LMHC Representative

Jama Davis, Ph.D., LMHC (IN), LCMHC (NC), NCC, ACS

LMFT Representative

Robert Atchison, PhD, LMFT, NCC