118 The Professional Counselor | Volume 14, Issue 1 practicing, need to remember counselor heal thyself first and to do their own work to avoid burnout and unethical practice. As our profession continues to grow, the need for good training sites and competent supervisors will continue to be a concern. I believe the responsibility for developing support for supervisors in the field is with counselor educators. We have resources and time allotted to us to work on strategies to better train and guide supervisors in the field and to advocate for more financial support for counselors-in-training. Lastly, in order for more practitioners in the field to gain access to the new developments in evidence-based practices, more counseling-related journals need to be open-access. We also need to find more ways to disseminate counseling research where counselors may tend to access information such as at scholarly conferences, in Counseling Today, and on social media platforms like the Mental Health Research Facebook page. Additionally, to get counselors more involved with conducting research and gathering data with their clients, more educators need to include practitioners as co-researchers on their studies. Ultimately, research to develop evidence-based practices should be seen as part of our service to our profession and advocacy for the clients we serve. This concludes the ninth interview for the annual Lifetime Achievement in Counseling Series. TPC is grateful to Joshua D. Smith, PhD, NCC, LCMHC, and Neal D. Gray, PhD, LCMHC-S, for providing this interview. Joshua D. Smith is an assistant professor at the University of Mount Olive. Neal D. Gray is a professor at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Correspondence can be emailed to Joshua Smith at jsmith@umo.edu. References Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs. (2024). Find a program. https://www.cacrep.org/directory Ruffalo Noel Levitz. (2022). 2021 graduate student recruitment report. https://www.ruffalonl.com/papersresearch-higher-education-fundraising/graduate-student-recruitment-report-2 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2022). Key substance use and mental health indicators in the United States: Results from the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (HHS Publication No. PEP22-07-01-005, NSDUH Series H-57). Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2021-nsduhannual-national-report Vineyard, T. E. (2019). The use of an online readiness assessment to determine necessary skills, aptitude, and propensities for successful completion in a secondary online credit course [ProQuest Information & Learning]. In Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences (Vol. 80, Issue 2–A(E)).
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