Dr. Janelle Renee Robinson, Ph.D., NCC, LPC is a Clinical Training Director and Core Faculty at the Family Institute at Northwestern University. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in South Carolina and a national certified counselor (NCC) with the National Board of Certified Counselors.

A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Dr. Robinson earned her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, her MS in Professional Counseling from Carlow University also in Pittsburgh, PA., and her BS in Psychology from Tennessee State University, an HBCU in Nashville, TN. She has over 15 years of clinical experience counseling individuals, children and adolescents, and families in Pennsylvania, Alabama, and South Carolina. Dr. Robinson has over 10 years in academia and her clinical and scholarly interests include racialized trauma, as well as understanding how transgenerational trauma impacts the African American community. She is a professional member of the American Counseling Association, the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision, the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development, Counselors for Social Justice, and the South Carolina Counseling Association.

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