Ellen Crossman
Assistant Professor of Clinical Counseling, Master of Clinical Counseling Director
About Ellen Crossman
Ellen L. Crossman grew up in Central Illinois. She came to Tennessee via Texas with her service in the Air National Guard. Middle Tennessee has been her home since 1995. She graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with her B.S. in Psychology and later with a M.Ed. in Counseling. She is dual licensed in Tennessee as both a School Counselor and a Professional Counselor.
Dr. Crossman pursued her Ph.D. at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN which inspired her desire to integrate faith in learning. During that time, she created the counseling program for a Tennessee nonprofit, The Doors of Hope, which assists women as they reenter the community from incarceration or homelessness. She continues to maintain a clinical practice in Murfreesboro, TN.
She has served as an adjunct faculty at both Trevecca and MTSU. Prior to joining the faculty at CSU in 2024, she was teaching full-time at Tennessee Tech University. Her professional service includes serving on the Board of the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselor Association for many years. Dr. Crossman is the current President-Elect.
Dr. Crossman’s passion is to foster healing from trauma for individuals and families, and to empower counseling students to do the same while learning to prevent personal and professional burnout. These are her current areas of interest for research.
"Connection is of utmost importance, especially in an online format. My virtual door is open for communication about any needs my students currently have in their lives. "
Awards
2016 Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, TLPCA/Trevecca Nazarene University
Chi Sigma Iota, International Counseling Honor Society
2012 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Middle Tennessee State University
Golden Key, International Honor Society
Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology
Signature Experiences
American Counseling Association (ACA).
American School Counseling Association (ASCA).
Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES).
Association for Play Therapy (APT).
Chi Sigma Iota (CSI).
EMDR International Association (EMDRIA).
International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling (IARTC).
International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT).
Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES).
Tennessee Association for Play Therapy (TNAPT).
Tennessee School Counselor Association (TSCA).
Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association (TLPCA).
Recent Scholarly Work & Publications
Crossman, E. & Avila, D. (2023, June). Grief and suicidal ideation: Finding meaning in a new assumptive world. Education proposal presented at the meeting of the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association, Nashville, TN.
Crossman, E. (2022, September). Resilience in and out of the classroom: Burnout prevention. Education proposal presented at the meeting of the Tennessee School Counseling, Administration, and Leadership Institute, Murfreesboro, TN.
Crossman, E. (2022, June). Secondary trauma and burnout: Ethical Solutions. Education proposal presented at the meeting of the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counseling Association, Nashville, TN.
Crossman, E. (2022, May). Mindfulness: Reducing secondary trauma and burnout. Education proposal presented at the meeting of the Association of Humanistic Counseling, Nashville, TN.
Blaylock, E. (2019). Identity development of counseling students: Empathy, mindfulness, and compassion as predictors of countertransference, secondary traumatic stress, and client-related burnout [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, TN.
Blaylock, E. (2019, June). Supervision research symposium. Education session presented at the meeting of the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counseling Association, Nashville, TN.
Blaylock, E. (2015, November). Protective factors for developmental transitions: The integration of mindfulness. Education session presented at the meeting of the Tennessee Counseling Association, Murfreesboro, TN.
Lahey, S., Blaylock, E., & Struble, L. (2014, October). Insights and metaphors: Replicating the therapeutic process during doctoral group supervision. Roundtable session presented at the meeting of the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Birmingham, AL.