Theodore Remley

Theodore P. Remley, Jr. is a professor of counseling at the University of Holy Cross in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Remley holds a PhD in Counselor Education from the University of Florida and a law degree (JD) from Catholic University in Washington, DC. He is a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a member of the Chi Sigma Iota national scholarship honorary in counseling. He is licensed as a Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana and Mississippi and is licensed to practice law in Virginia and Florida. Dr. Remley is the author and co-author of a number of articles, books, and book chapters related to legal and ethical issues in counseling. For more than 19 years, he has directed very popular counselor institutes in Italy and Ireland, and in cooperation with the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC), in Bhutan, France, Argentina, and Malawi in Africa. Since 2015, Dr. Remley has directed the annual national refereed Law and Ethics in Counseling Conference held each year in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Remley has been a school counselor and a college counselor and practiced law for seven years. In the past, Dr. Remley has held full-time counseling faculty positions at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia; Mississippi State University; the University of New Orleans; and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Remley is a former Executive Director of the American Counseling Association. He was the founding president of the American Association of State Counseling Boards (AASCB). He is a fellow in the American Counseling Association. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 from the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) and the Past President’s Lifetime Membership Award in 2017 from the American Association of State Counseling Boards (AASCB).