Dr. Angelle E. Richardson is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Counseling. She also serves as the Program Director for School Counseling. Dr. Richardson holds a BA in Professional Writing and Journalism from The College of New Jersey, both an MA and an EdS in Counseling from Rider University, and a PhD in Couple and Family Therapy from Drexel University.

Previously, she was a faculty member at Thomas Jefferson University, and the Counseling Department Chair at Bethune-Cookman University, where she participated in the NSF funded HBCU Science of Learning Network. 

Dr. Richardson has over two decades of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor in community mental health, clinical settings, and private practice. She specializes in adoption, foster care, trauma, and grief. Her research focuses on the lived experience of adoptees, with publications in the Journal of Public Child Welfare, the Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 

Dr. Richardson is a trained FORECAST (Foundation for OutReach through Experiential Child Advocacy Studies Training) facilitator and uses this to conduct simulations to educate students about trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). She is also a Mental Health First Aid instructor.

In 2018, Dr. Richardson traveled to Haiti with the Global Trauma Research Project to provide trauma training to those who desired to provide care in their communities.

Dr. Richardson has been on The Today Show, Fox 29, and Channel 6 News as a subject matter expert. She has also provided clinical insight for features in People Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and New York Times Magazine.

Narrative Therapy is Dr. Richardson’s primary therapeutic modality, although she has also been trained in the Beck Model of Cognitive Therapy and Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).

Currently, Dr. Richardson is working on an Oral History project focusing on Intergenerational Adoption and Kinship Care.