Devon Romero, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Counseling
Bio
Dr. Devon E. Romero is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Counselor Education and Supervision Doctoral Program in the Department of Counseling. She obtained her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Alabama. As a National Certified Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas , Dr. Romero has specialized experience with trauma, neurofeedback, marriage and family counseling, and child and adolescent counseling. Dr. Romero’s research primarily focuses on studying trauma among historically marginalized, a t-risk and underserved populations including: (a) children and youth and (b) sex trafficking u tilizing complementary interventions and evidence-based outcome research for informing counselor training, research, and practice. Due to her graduate certificate in quantitative educational research, Dr. Romero also collaborates on projects that require her e xpertise in research m ethodology and contribute to researcher development. Dr. Romero has over a decade of experience working with and managing large federally funded projects, smaller externally funded projects, and institutionally funded research. She currently serves as the Project Director of a sex trafficking focused program with the purpose of increasing clinical placements for counselors-in-training in medically underserved communities funded for $396,705 by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. She is the co-founder of the Counselors Against Sex Trafficking Research Lab ( www.castrl.com ) and serves as the Chapter Faculty Advisor for the Sigma Alpha Chi Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota.
