About John Hawkins
I have been working with adults, teenagers, and families since 1986, when I received my masters degree in Community/Mental Health Counseling from the Department of Counselor Education at Mississippi State University. In 1988, I returned to graduate school at MSU to work on an
educational specialist (Ed.S.) degree in school counseling. I am currently completing the requirements for a Ph.D. degree in Counseling from MSU. Subsequently, I spent thirteen rewarding years working as a counselor at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, a public, residential, magnet, high school for academically talented and gifted juniors and seniors. I then spent three years as a counselor at the Mississippi State University Counseling Center followed by two years as a counselor at the Mississippi School for the Arts, a public, residential magnet, high school for creatively gifted juniors and seniors. I am currently an instructo in the Department of Counselor Education at Delta State University. I have maintained a private counseling practice since 2002.
I am a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a National Certified School Counselor (NCSC), certified by the National Board for Certified Counselors, a private certifying agency that recognizes counselors who have distinguished themselves through meeting the board's rigorous standards for education, knowledge, and experience. I am a member of the Mississippi Counselor Association, the Mississippi School Counselors Associaton, the Mississippi Licensed Professional Counselors Association, the Internal Family Systems Therapy Association, and the American School Counseling Association. In addition to my graduate education, I have had additional training in Positive Psychology, Adlerian Psychotherapy, Stress Management, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Counseling and Spirituality, Solution-Oriented Brief Therapy, Theophostic Counseling, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming.