Dr. Brittany L. Collins is the CEO of Developing ME! Counseling and Consulting, LLC, Program Director for BHWEP and Adjunct Faculty for the University of Dayton, and Consultant for Synergistic Solutions. She completed her Ph.D. in 2022 in Counselor Education and Supervision with a Multicultural and Social Justice Cognate and was awarded Outstanding Doctoral Student of the Year. Other awards include the Mizzou Made Staff of the Year in 2022 and receiving the Emerging Leader award from the American College Counselors Association (ACCA) in 2018-2019. Dr. Collins is also a Co-Leader for the Black Professionals in Sport & Performance Psychology Affinity Group through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). 

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Dr. Collins identifies as a third culture and former military kid. Her father, and grandfather both served in the Air Force which afforded her rich cultural development by being born in England, attending Kindergarten through 3rd grade in Japan, and then moving to Korea and Hawaii before her family settled in Ohio. 

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She has served as Assistant Director of Athletics-Director of Mental Health and Wellness, Licensed Mental Health Professional/Athletics Program Therapist through UofL Health/UofL Athletics, the University of Missouri Athletics department as well as the University of Cincinnati’s Sports Medicine Department. She is licensed to practice as a Professional Clinical Counselor and Clinical Supervisor in the state of Missouri, Ohio, and Kentucky as well as licensed to practice as a Professional counselor in the State of Texas. She is a National Certified Counselor, Certified as a Board Certified Tele-Mental Health provider, and Certified Youth Sports Administrator (CYSA) and is pending exam for the Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC). She received her M.S.Ed in Clinical and Mental Health Counseling from the University of Dayton in 2016 as well as an M.S. in Sport Sciences in 2003. Furthermore, she completed her B.S. in Sports Sciences from Ohio University in 2002 where she also was awarded a full athletic scholarship and was a member of the women’s basketball team. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

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Additional roles include serving as Adjunct Faculty at The University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, and the University of Dayton in the Counselor Education program as well as a College Counselor within the University of Dayton College Counseling Center. 

Her athletic and higher education experience includes ten-plus years of NCAA, OHSAA, and Recreational experience as well as recruitment and retention of minority undergraduate and graduate students. She later became an Athletic Academic Advisor and Tutor Coordinator for both freshmen college students and Division I student-athletes. She has served as the Assistant Athletics Director, Assistant to the Athletic Director, Academic School tutor, and high school girls basketball coach for over twelve years. That experience also includes managing the youth and adult sports for the City of Dayton which involved managing the youth-adult programming (Basketball, Baseball, Softball, and Girl’s Fast Pitch) as well as managing, training, and coaching athletes, coaches, officials, and recreation staff. 

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Her clinical experience includes in-school therapist, outpatient therapist, residential treatment therapist, college counselor, and individual and team counselor for high school and collegiate athletes, youth, adolescents, adults, and families. She is also trained in Motivational Interviewing and 7 Challenges, a comprehensive counseling program for young people that incorporates work on alcohol and other drug problems. Her research and interests focus on high performing, high impact individuals including physicians, healthcare providers, first responders, athletes, teens, and young adults regarding multicultural concerns, intersecting identities, racial stressors, grief, and transition. Furthermore, her passions include identity race-based stress, self-awareness, identity development, developmental trauma, depression, anxiety, career development, and overall well-being. Brittany works from a holistic, multicultural, humanistic, strengths-based approach while incorporating the ecological perspective in practice. 

Experienced. Driven. Compassionate. Supportive.