Faculty Profile
Elizabeth Adair
Chair, Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
302-327-6584
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University
M.A., Arizona State University
B.A., San Diego State University
Biography
Elizabeth (Lisa) Adair is a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of New Jersey. Lisa has a Ph.D. in Counseling Supervision and Education with a specialization in Trauma and Crisis counseling. She is a full-time faculty member in the Clinical Mental Health Counselling program at Wilmington University. She has taught Diversity in counseling, Ethics in counseling, Theories in Counseling, Strategies in Counseling I and II, as well as Group Counseling. She continues to challenge herself to take on new responsibilities for the CMHC program. Lisa is currently serving as the chair of the CMHC program assisted in their eight-year CACREP accreditation renewal in 2023. In her career, she has shared her expertise with a variety of presentations for the university and community that involve teaching methods, wellness, and counseling concerns.
Her professional and clinical background involves working with adolescents who experience behavioral, intellectual and cognitive disabilities. She has served as a teacher, mentor and counselor in New Jersey secondary school settings for twenty years. She has been a mental health professional specializing in trauma for the last eleven years in both intensive in-home and community mental health settings, including school-based outpatient counseling. She continues to provide individual, family, and group therapy. She has worked with troubled youth, families, and individuals with a history of complex trauma. Lisa’s approach is person-centered and humanistic, integrating techniques of mindfulness, DBT, and TF-CBT. She also applies play and art therapies to her work with children and has training in grief counseling. She believes in working with family and community systems and developing client self-advocacy and assertiveness. Lisa strives to assist families and youth in building resilience, engaging in their own change story, and being active agents of their own wellness.