Dr. Patrick Cunningham

Office address
314 B
College of Education Building

Dr. Patrick D. Cunningham is an assistant professor in the professional school counseling program at Appalachian State University. He earned his Ph.D. in counselor education from The Ohio State University and his Master of Science in school counseling from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has worked as a school counselor in several settings, including a large public high school in Raleigh, North Carolina, and private international schools in Dubai and South Korea.

His research interests include school counseling intervention research, understanding and promoting the role of school counselors as family engagement leaders in schools, suicide prevention, and antiracist school counseling practices.