Erin Burgess, MS, LPC (they/she) is a Licensed Professional Counselor and current doctoral student in Counselor Education & Supervision at Idaho State University, specializing in Marriage, Couple and Family counseling. She completed her MS in Professional Mental Health Counseling—Addictions Specialization at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR, and was awarded the NBCC Foundation Minority Fellowship in Addiction Counseling in 2022. Her research interests include how to best prepare CITs to help clients explore sexuality, as well as best practices in the treatment of clients with SUDs. Clinically, she has worked in multiple residential centers where she has supported clients in recovery, advocated for client rehabilitation needs, conducted individual and group counseling with justice-involved youth who use substances, and developed group counseling curriculums centering creative interventions when working with Black and Brown youth.