Associate Professor
Department of Counseling and College Student Personnel
Shippensburg University
1871 Old Main Drive
Shippensburg, PA  17257
Email: klkrau@ship.edu
Phone: (717) 477-1603
Office: 113 Shippen Hall

Kurt L. Kraus, Ed.D., NCC, ACS, LPC

Dr. Kurt L. Kraus is an Associate Professor of Counseling in the Department. He has worked for Shippensburg University since August 1998. He was an Assistant Professor of Counseling and Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke for two years prior and before that he was in practice as a school counselor and mental health counselor in Maine. Kurt’s early professional life has included bartending, car sales, Chinese martial art instructor, and teaching special education. He brings a variety of “lived experiences” to his role as counselor educator.

Kurt has written extensively on group work including task, psychoeducation, counseling and psychotherapy groups. His 2002 article with Dr. Anne Geroski on Process and Content in School Psychoeducation Groups won the Journal for Specialists in Group Work’s Outstanding Article Award. Kurt’s most recent publication Elements of Group Counseling with Dr. Peg Carroll is slated for release in 2006. He has also written on ethics, counseling children, and working with challenging adolescents. Kurt’s current projects are explorations of Traditional Chinese Medicine (the practice of therapeutic qigong) and cross-cultural psychotherapy leading to his 2006 sabbatical in Beijing China.

In the Department, Dr. Kraus teaches Counseling Children and a wide variety of other courses. He serves primarily school counseling track students through practicum and field work, but has equal interest in the specializations of community and mental health counseling. Kurt is often discontent (as in Freud’s 1930 Unbehagen in der Kultur) and seeks continuously to improve himself, his personal and professional practice, and his surroundings. He is theoretically an existentialist. His counseling and supervision are firmly grounded in the “here and now.” And, he is most captivated by Buddhist writings and spiritual practice.

Dr. Kraus currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC). He is president of the Pennsylvania Specialists in Group Work. He is past President of the North Atlantic Region of the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision (NARACES) and the past president of the Pennsylvania Alliance of Counseling Professionals (PACP).

Kurt resides in Carlisle Pennsylvania with his family. He is a passionate backpacker, fly-fisherman, and taijiquan (a Chinese martial art) practitioner.

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