The editorial work on Counseling Accreditation is produced by a team of contributing experts who span counseling practice, counselor education, and editorial operations. Each contributor’s name appears on the pages they author or review, and you can read more about each person below.
Our editorial process and verification cadence are described in our Editorial Standards.
Cassandra Branan, EdD
Doctorate in Educational Leadership
Dr. Cassandra Branan, EdD, holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership with a concentration in Health and Human Services. Her work focuses on school-based behavioral health and prevention, with an emphasis on counseling systems, education leadership, and program implementation across K–12 settings.
She works at the intersection of education and behavioral health, collaborating with schools, administrators, and community partners to implement evidence-based mental health and substance use prevention programs. Her experience includes overseeing structured prevention initiatives, supporting program delivery across districts, and working within systems that align with state standards and educational requirements.
Dr. Branan’s work also involves supporting professionals navigating licensure, credentialing, and counselor preparation pathways. Her perspective is grounded in the operational and structural realities of how counseling services are delivered within school systems.
Her contributions to Counseling Accreditation focus on counseling education, accreditation, and the systems that shape how counselors are trained, evaluated, and integrated into real-world settings.
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Sean Carroll, MA, LPCC, LAC
Licensed Psychotherapist
Sean Carroll, LPCC, LAC, is a licensed psychotherapist based in Denver, Colorado. His clinical work focuses on psychodynamic therapy and group psychotherapy.
In his practice, Sean works within established therapeutic frameworks. His clinical approach is grounded in psychodynamic principles and group-based interventions, both of which are commonly used in mental health treatment settings to address complex emotional and interpersonal concerns.
In addition to his clinical work, Sean writes on topics related to mental health, clinical theory, and the broader conceptual foundations of psychotherapy. His work focuses on clarifying how psychological models are applied in practice and how individuals experience change within therapeutic settings.
Sean contributes to Counseling Accreditation by providing clinically grounded, research-informed perspectives that support readers navigating counseling education, training pathways, and professional standards.
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Katrina Daniels
Director of Editorial & Content Operations
Katrina (Trina) Daniels has spent decades building editorial systems for YMYL and regulated publishing environments, where getting it wrong isn’t just embarrassing, it’s a compliance problem. As a content operations director, editor, and SEO strategist, she has led multiple concurrent editorial teams across numerous engagements, including work under NDA and white-label arrangements where discretion matters as much as quality. Her work spans healthcare, addiction treatment, veterinary medicine, legal services, banking and finance, and cybersecurity.
While managing multi-site addiction treatment and emerging medical platforms, Trina earned Google-approved blog status without compromising on regulatory standards. She works closely with subject matter experts, clinicians, practitioners, and technical professionals, turning complex knowledge into content that is clear, compliant, and useful. She brings hands-on SEO expertise across AI overviews, generative engine optimization, and citation architecture.
At Counseling Accreditation, Trina leads the editorial operations work that keeps state-by-state licensure and accreditation content accurate, current, and verifiable. She partners with our contributing experts to translate the operational reality of counseling licensure into content readers can actually use.
How We Work
Each piece of content on Counseling Accreditation is written or reviewed by at least one contributing expert and verified against primary sources before publication. State licensing pages are reviewed at least once every twelve months and updated immediately when boards announce changes. Accreditation status for individual programs is rechecked against accreditor directories on the same cadence.
When we get something wrong, we want to know about it. Reach out through our About Us page and we’ll take a look.
For the full picture of our editorial standards, fact-checking process, and corrections handling, see our Editorial Standards.