Nina W. Brown, Ed.D. is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a nationally Certified Counselor (NCC). She has additional training in group psychotherapy from the Mid-Atlantic Group Psychotherapy Society and the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Her specialties are group counseling/therapy, psychoeducational groups, counseling theories and, destructive narcissism. Dr. Brown is serving as the past-president of MAGPS, a member of the Institute Committee for AGPA, a member of the American Association of State Credentialing Boards (AASCB)’s test panel, member of NBCC’s test development committee and, chair of the Ethics Committee for the American Specialists in Group Work (ASGW). Dr. Brown is the author of 12 published books and over 40 nationally refereed journal articles. Recent publications include Working with the self-absorbed, Whose life is it anyway, Children of the self-absorbed, The unfolding life (with Parker), Student generated sexual harassment in secondary schools (with Wexel), Student development and student learning at a distance (with Schwitzer and Ancis), Creating high performance classroom groups and The destructive narcissistic pattern.

Her primary theoretical orientation is a blend of object-relations, self-psychology, interpersonal and existential. The primary teaching techniques merge cognitive and affective with the use of personal self-reflection, readings and lectures, observation and analysis and, expressive techniques such as art.