Mark Gerig, Ph.D
Faculty
Mark Gerig, Ph.D
Professor, Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D. Counselor Education and Supervision; The University of Toledo (1991)
M.A. Counseling Psychology; Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (1983)
B.A. Psychological Sciences; Purdue University (1980)
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Biography
Mark Gerig is the oldest of two children and was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was raised and lived in a small, rural community in northeast Indiana throughout his childhood and adolescence. He and his wife, Michelle, have two adult children, two grandchildren, and one black lab (Brimley). They reside near Marion, Indiana.
Dr. Gerig’s professional career has alternated between full-time clinical practice and graduate education. He is a clinical mental health counselor in Indiana and licensed psychologist in Michigan. Mark first served at Catholic Social Services, Defiance, OH, as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC-OH) where he provided individual and family therapy for a wide range of concerns. These included addiction, personality disorder, eating disorder, depression, and anxiety. In addition, he served as coordinator of Parent Skill Training for the five county region of northwest Ohio. He later served as a outpatient therapist and supervisor at the Eastern Upper Peninsula Mental Health Center, Sault Ste. Marie, MI. In this role, he provided individual counseling to persons experiencing moderate to severe and persistent mental illness as well as the provision of supervision to counselors in the Outpatient Department. More recently, he served as the Manager of Crisis Services and facilitated the implementation of the Recovery and Peer Support Programs at Hiawatha Behavioral Health, Sault Ste. Marie, MI. As an educator, Dr. Gerig has previously served as a Professor of Counseling and Psychology at Summit Christian College (Fort Wayne, IN) and Bethel College (Mishawaka, IN), Sessional Instructor of Psychology at Algoma University (Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada), and Chair of the Division of Counseling at Indiana Wesleyan University (Marion, IN). Mark engaged in part-time clinical practice concurrently with these academic appointments, providing individual counseling and neurofeedback for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Dr. Gerig has been quite active in professional organizations. He has served as Chair of Professional Development and President of the Indiana Mental Health Counseling Association (IMHCA) and the Executive Board of the Indiana Counseling Association. He currently is a member of American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA) Certification Board. Mark honored as Indiana Mental Health Counselor of the Year (2003) and the AMHCA Counselor Educator of the Year (2004-2005).
Mark is a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences and is the author of Foundations in Clinical Mental Health Counseling: An Introduction to the Profession (3rd ed., Pearson). His current research interests are the role of intellectual virtues in the practice of professional counseling, the professional identity of clinical mental health counselors, and application of wellness interventions in the remediation of mental illness. In his spare time, Mark enjoys hiking, fishing, ice hockey, and reading (particularly great lakes history, theology, physics, and mysteries).