About Jonnie Wilson
Jonnie L. M. Wilson is currently a PACE Career Counselor in the office of Career Services at Texas State University. She in partnership with Kate Robbins at the Rippling Water Resources, LLC, a Counseling Private Practice in San Marcos. She served Texas State University and the surrounding community in various capacities for the past 25 years. In 1993, Jonnie earned both a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Texas State University and was also the recipient of (and the first Black woman to do so), the Lyndon Baines Johnson Outstanding Senior Award. In 1996, Jonnie earned a Master of Arts degree from University of Missouri-Columbia in Black, African and Mexican History, and was also a recipient of the prestigious Thurgood Marshall Fellowship. In May of 2019, she received a Master of Art Degree in Professional Counseling from Texas State University. She was the recipient of the Mariel Muir Mentoring Award, Excellence in Diversity Award and inducted into Women’s Hall of Fame and the Texas State’s Outstanding Staff Award in Women’s History.
Jonnie received the Black Student Alliance Image Award for Black Faculty and Staff of the Year for 10 consecutive years, the recipient of the Image Awards Administrator, was named Gospel Expressions Association 2003 Advisor of the year, and a Paws Preview Namesake. She served as Co-Leader for the Student Affairs Diversity Team for 13 years, past President of the Texas State Coalition of Black Faculty and Staff and President of Counselors for Social Justice. A diverse group of student leaders have chosen her to be their advisor. She has been a Mentor in the Texas State mentoring program and an advocate for non-traditional students and students who are parents. Ms. Wilson served as Board Secretary for The Hays, Blanco, Caldwell Community Action, Inc., for 4 years and served as Board President for the Hays Caldwell Women’s Center.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor Intern in Clinical and Mental Health and a Nationally Board-Certified Counselor. I am qualified to counsel under the supervision of a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, Ms Kate Robbins. My formal education has prepared me to counsel individuals, groups, couples, families, children, and parents. I am a current member of the American Counseling Association and Texas Counseling Association.
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Experience:
I currently work as a Career Counselor at Texas State University and have over twenty-three years of experience working in a professional environment, a strong advocate for marginalized students at Texas State University, mentoring adolescents and adults and providing guidance and advising. I have twenty-three years of experience working with specialized populations: women of color, veterans, adolescent girls, black males, victims of sexual and race-based trauma, chronic illness, unplanned pregnancies/college students, LGBTQIA college students and first-generation college students. I also have five years of on-call and crisis management experience through my job at Texas State University. I have volunteered 400 hours with the Hays Caldwell Women’s Center and gone through the advocate training program. In my community, I facilitated single parents support group for seven years. I have many years of experience working with young children as a Sunday School teacher and Vacation Bible school teacher. I also was able to successfully raise three daughters from ages 5, 3, and 1, as a single parent. My daughters are now ages 42, 38 and 37.
Nature of Counseling
My primary therapeutic method is Solution Focused Brief therapy, especially when working with adolescents, mainly because teens are concerned with what is currently going on in their lives and not in the past. Cultural, social, racial and economic considerations must be considered, and I believe that my client has a voice in therapy or in other words. I believe that teens seek identity, belonging and independence. It is a trying time for teens and goal setting and engaging parents in the counseling process is important, but I will always advocate for the needs of my clients.
Other Counseling Techniques
Mindfulness
Narrative Therapy
Feminist/Womanist Therapy
Person-Centered
Multicultural
Relational
Age
Preteens (11-13)
Adolescents (14-19)
Adults
Issues
Racial Identity
Trauma
Anxiety
Coping Skills
Life Transitions
Depression
Self-esteem
Sexual Abuse
Spiritually
Stress
Women Issues
DACA-undocumented issues
Sexuality
Christian
Communities
Bisexual Allied
Gay Allied
Lesbian Allied
Transgender Allied
Veteran Allied
DACA Allied