A clinician-executive whose career spans every system that serves people at the margins of health and work — the counseling room, the courtroom, the classroom, the boardroom, and the town hall of the community that raised him.
Licensed clinical mental health counselor and supervisor, certified rehabilitation counselor, counselor educator, forensic evaluator and vocational expert, behavioral health executive, and elected public official. Through all of it runs a single commitment: expanding access to quality behavioral health and vocational services for the people and places most often overlooked.
A vocational expert across the full range of injury and disability — with distinctive clinical depth in the cases many experts decline: psychiatric disability, traumatic brain injury, intellectual/developmental disability and autism.
Contracted Social Security Administration Vocational Expert under successive federal Blanket Purchase Agreements current through 2030. North Carolina Local Certified Forensic Evaluator conducting court-ordered capacity evaluations. Founder of The Vocational Standard, LLC — employability, work capacity, and earning capacity analysis for attorneys, insurers, and employers.
A workplace behavioral health specialist with a critical-incident record few affiliate clinicians can match — 50+ CISM deployments since 2017 — and an executive's understanding of the employer's chair.
Credentialed across seven national EAP networks, including the Magellan Federal EAP / Federal Occupational Health panel. On-site embedded EAP experience at Bank of America. Military installation counseling in the U.S. and Japan. As CEO of a 60-person accredited organization, he consults to managers with the fluency of someone who holds those responsibilities himself.
He has built behavioral health organizations for two decades — from a rural practice founded at twenty-seven to a Joint Commission–accredited, eight-site organization serving one of the most underserved populations in the country.
Founder & CEO of Andrews Counseling & Consulting, PLLC: ~60 personnel, contracts across four LME/MCO networks, two state VR systems, school districts in two states, and federal agencies — with distinctive depth in dual-diagnosis (I/DD–autism and mental health) services.
A counselor educator with faculty appointments at five institutions — a Carnegie R1, three historically Black institutions including his alma mater, and one of the nation's largest online counselor-education programs.
Scholarship on representation and equity in the counseling professions, disability and employment across the life course, and trauma in Black and underserved communities — grounded in an active clinical, forensic, and executive practice that keeps the teaching honest.
Begins in community behavioral health at Guess Community Services, Greensboro — seven years advancing from case management to clinical supervision while completing graduate training.
Founds AnDixon Counseling & Community Services at twenty-seven — named for his grandfather Levi Dixon — growing it to 12 clinicians serving ~150 active Medicaid enrollees across nine rural communities, including East Arcadia itself.
Turns to vocational rehabilitation: VA VR&E contract counseling for veterans across two states, and military family counseling at Camp Lejeune and MCAS Iwakuni, Japan.
Founds Andrews Counseling & Consulting, PLLC. Approved as a Social Security Administration Vocational Expert. Earns NC supervisor licensure and the University of Florida forensic rehabilitation certificate.
Ph.D. conferred. Joins the University of Kentucky's top-ten-ranked rehabilitation counseling program as Clinical Assistant Professor; first direct federal SSA Blanket Purchase Agreement.
ACC earns Joint Commission accreditation. Certified as a NC Local Certified Forensic Evaluator; state prosecutors request him by name for a second-opinion evaluation.
Appointed — then elected with 98.5% of ballots — Mayor of East Arcadia, the town where he was raised. Joins Clark Atlanta University; retained by the Office of the Federal Public Defender, M.D. Florida.
ACC re-accredited, all services surveyed. Founds The Vocational Standard, LLC and co-founds The Agency Standard, LLC — the forensic and consulting practices formalized as dedicated companies. Federal SSA BPA renewed through 2030.
A Joint Commission–accredited behavioral health organization of ~60 clinical, behavioral, and paraprofessional personnel across eight credentialed North Carolina sites and a Georgia service line — with rare depth at the intersection of intellectual/developmental disability, autism, and co-occurring mental health conditions.
Forensic vocational consultation for attorneys, insurers, and employers: employability, work capacity, earning capacity, transferable skills, and labor market analysis — alongside SSA vocational expert testimony and court-ordered forensic evaluation.
Workplace mental health and EAP practice: critical incident response, executive coaching, clinical supervision, professional training, and trauma-informed consultation for employers and organizations.
Translating ACC's accredited-agency operational infrastructure into a care-management and agency-operations platform for behavioral health providers.
USDA-supported farmers market completed and opened; water-system modernization with SCADA monitoring; park revitalization and PARTF grant campaign; annual budget leadership — for the Bladen County town where he was raised.
VA VR&E contract counseling for veterans (2016–2019); vocational rehabilitation counseling for SSA disability beneficiaries including Ticket to Work participants; QIDP service to individuals with I/DD; CEO of a Joint Commission–accredited behavioral health organization; University of Florida Certificate in Forensic Rehabilitation Counseling; invited AREA ethics faculty (2022, 2023).
50+ CISM/CISD deployments following workplace deaths, accidents, threats, and grief events — immediate stabilization, group facilitation, employee triage, psychoeducation, and post-incident leadership consultation. Deployment requests continuing into 2026.
Embedded brief assessment, short-term counseling, and crisis support; EAP orientation and benefits education; invited panelist on cancer awareness and mental wellness alongside the President of Bank of America Charlotte (2023).
Magellan Healthcare (since 2017, incl. the Federal EAP / Federal Occupational Health panel) · Anthem EAP (recruited directly) · Corporate Counseling Associates (invited; CISD Affiliate) · Canopy EAP · ESI Employee Assistance Group · ComPsych.
Brief, solution-focused counseling for service members and families; early-intervention support within the Iwakuni Child Development Program.
AnDixon Counseling & Community Services (Founder & Clinical Director, 2013–2016): built end to end — enrollment, credentialing, policy manual — to 12 clinical staff and ~150 active Medicaid enrollees across nine rural communities. Guess Community Services (2006–2013): seven years of progressive roles across direct service, utilization management, and clinical supervision in a CARF-accredited organization.
ACC's operational infrastructure — workflow, documentation, authorization tracking, compliance, QA — productized as a care-management and agency-operations platform for behavioral health providers.
Twenty board-approved supervision contracts (2017–2025), ~18 supervisees advanced to full licensure; supervisor-of-supervisors across eleven clinical teams; practicum/internship training site since 2017.
Clinical training, supervision, professional preparation, and culturally responsive counseling practice; NCDA Global Conference presentation under CAU affiliation (2024).
Faculty in a rehabilitation counseling program ranked #9 nationally; coordinated all clinical fieldwork; co-directed the Interdisciplinary Disability Studies undergraduate program; affiliate faculty, African & African American Studies. Ten distinct courses across graduate clinical training and undergraduate disability studies; first-semester evaluations of 4.3 (course) and 4.7 (teacher).
Adjunct Faculty, Psychology (KSU, 2020); Adjunct Professor, Counselor Education & Family Studies (Liberty, 2020–2022); Graduate Teaching Assistant with practicum supervision (NC A&T, 2018–2020).
Wilson, K. B., Chao, S.-Y., & Andrews, T. (2021). Anticipation is everything: How do you know it is coming? World Journal of Yoga, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, 2(5).
Wilson, K. B., Andrews, T. S., Chao, S., Levine, A., & Harley, D. A. (2022). The act of being yourself: Infusing humor in personal spaces. In Teach Counseling with a Sense of Humor (Vol. 2).
Harley, D. A., Andrews, T. S., & Troop, C. (2022). Minority college student populations with disabilities and accommodations. In Disabilities and Accommodations in Higher Education.
Andrews, A. D., & Andrews, T. S. (2023). Stop the Violence — children's book on speaking out against injustice.
Plus six manuscripts accepted at the Journal of Rehabilitation Administration on perceived discrimination, identity, and advocacy — and 30+ invited and peer-reviewed presentations (NCDA, NCRE, NAMRC, AABSS, AREA, NAADAC), including invited CLE and ethics training for attorneys and forensic practitioners.
License numbers, transcripts, and verification documentation available upon request.
For forensic and vocational expert matters, workplace behavioral health engagements, agency partnership, academic inquiries, or speaking requests.
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