Dr. Gregory Elliott is an Associate Professor at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, CO, and he is the 2023-2024 Chair of the American Counseling Association Western Region. He is also the Treasurer and a past president of the Colorado Counseling Association, one of the largest state branches of the American Counseling Association. Dr. Elliott has been a licensed professional counselor since 2004, and an LPC in the state of Colorado since 2006. He is dually-licensed as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa. His clinical experiences include directing a university counseling center, working in a partial hospitalization program for severely mentally ill adults, working in an inpatient hospital setting with adults and adolescents, and working with at-risk youth and families. His clinical specialization is in working with suicidal clients. Dr. Elliott also maintains a small clinical supervision practice for counselors working to obtain their post-graduate supervised hours for licensure.

Dr. Elliott's research interests include the content and pedagogy of how counselor education programs prepare students to work with suicidal clients, and best practices in and the efficacy of online programs in counselor education. Some of his recent publications include an examination of pedagogical practices in preparing mental health professionals-in-training to work with suicidal clients (Binkley & Elliott, 2021) and an experimental examination of the impact on counseling student self-efficacy of three online educational approaches on teaching suicide content (Elliott & Henninger, 2020). A prior publication explored the development of self-efficacy to work with suicidal clients (Elliott et al., 2018). He is a member of the American Counseling Association, the Colorado Counseling Association, the American Association of Suicidology, Chi Sigma Iota, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, and the Rocky Mountain Association for Counselor Education and Supervision.

Dr. Elliott has presented at numerous national and regional conferences on topics related to clinical supervision, online education, suicide prevention, intervention, and treatment, and other topics.