Anita Neuer Colburn, PhD, LPC, LPCS

Clinical Training Director

Dr. Anita Neuer Colburn is a clinical training director at Northwestern University’s Counseling@Northwestern program. She has worked in full-time and part-time clinical practice since 1998, and has been providing clinical supervision to licensure-bound counselors since 2005. As a counselor educator, she has taught in face to face and online programs, at both the doctoral and master’s levels. Her own master’s degree was in rehabilitation counseling, and she worked in private practice as a career counselor for more than 10 years. Her counseling experiences have primarily included work with women, sexual minorities, couples, and teens/parents in foster care systems.  Prior to becoming a counselor, Dr. Neuer Colburn worked as an independent executive recruiter and personnel consultant. Dr. Neuer Colburn’s research interests include online counselor education pedagogy, LGBTQQIA counseling and supervision competencies, spiritual integration in counseling and supervision, and social justice issues.

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