Dr. Jesse Fox, PhD, has a passion for mental health, spirituality and research. His expertise focuses primarily on spirituality integrated counseling, spiritual bypass, contemplative practices and the implications of religious pluralism in counseling. He has also co-authored two books with Routledge Press, entitled Bringing Religion and Spirituality into Therapy and Spirituality and Avoiding Difficult Emotions: Working with Spiritual Bypass. Since 2021, he has served as a Project Leader for the $5.1 million grant initiative funded by the John Templeton Foundation called the Spiritual and Religious Competency Project, a national initiative to investigate the role of such competencies in the training of mental health clinicians.
He has also served as an editorial board member for The Journal of Counseling and Development, Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, Counseling and Values: Spirituality, Ethics, and Religion in Counseling, and Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation, among others. In 2014, Fox was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award and was selected as an Emerging Leader by the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. In addition to his role as a professor, Fox also directs a non-profit counseling center in the DeLand Community, The Episcopal Counseling Center, which has served hundreds of primarily low-income individuals and families every year since 1987.
