Dr. Sarah Patterson-Mills is the Director of the Counseling Education and Supervision Program in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Grand Canyon University. Prior to enthusiastically joining GCU in 2025, she served as Department Chair of Human Services (2019-2024) and Program Lead of School Counseling (2015-2024) at Lindenwood University. She served as a full-time clinical and school counseling professor since 2010 at Lindenwood, earning the rank of professor in 2023. Prior to academia, Dr. Patterson-Mills served as a school and clinical counselor for 15 years and is a licensed and approved Missouri supervisor. Dr. Patterson-Mills received her doctorate in Counseling and Family Therapy from Saint Louis University in 2010. She holds an M.A. In Human Development Counseling from Saint Louis University and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is active in the National Career Development Association, serving as assistant editor for Career Developments and the Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors Career Interest Network. Her clinical and research interests are in genealogy, inter-generational relational patterns and dynamics, systems thinking, and clinical supervision.