Brett Zyromski

Brett Zyromski is an Associate Professor and Program Chair of the Counselor Education Program at The Ohio State University. His scholarship focuses on how school-based counselors can enhance protective factors, such as Hope and Belonging (Connectedness), for students that have experienced adverse childhood experiences, while at the same time deconstructing the systems that create the need for such interventions. His research also explores the impact of socially-just evidence-based interventions in school counseling, and socially-just evidence-based school counselor education and evaluation in school counseling. Dr. Zyromski has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters related to school counseling issues, delivered over 150 international, national, regional, and local presentations and has served as keynote speaker for numerous international, national, and state conferences.

A research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Ronald H. Fredrikson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation and a Faculty Affiliate at The Ohio State University Center on Education and training for Employment, Dr. Zyromski is also co-editor of School Counseling Research: Advancing the Professional Evidence Base (2023) and co-author of Facilitating Evidence-Based, Data-Driven School Counseling: A Manual for Practice (Corwin, 2016). He co-founded and is co-chair of the annual Evidence-Based School Counseling Conference (http://www.ebscc.org) and has served as co-primary investigator or project manager for over $12,000,000 worth of federal and state grants. 

Dr. Zyromski is involved with the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) as an Associate Editor of the Professional School Counseling journal. He also served as a Lead Recognized-ASCA-Model-Program Reviewers (LRR’s) for a decade. He has successfully helped over 30 schools earn Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP) designation. Dr. Zyromski also helped facilitate five Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Grants for Campbell County Schools, Erlanger-Elsmere Independent Schools and Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services, adding over twenty additional school counselors to the Northern Kentucky region.

Dr. Zyromski was the invited chair of the revision team for the Development Counseling Model for Illinois Schools. Dr. Zyromski has consulted and trained internationally and across the United States. He has trained numerous school districts, including Chicago Public Schools, on evolving school counseling programs to evidence-based, data-driven, comprehensive school counseling programs. He has provided workshops on crisis preparation and response in schools, supervision in counseling, using school counseling to change sundown town communities, and data-driven school counseling practices.

Dr. Zyromski has been recognized for numerous awards and recognitions, including the 2024 Ohio School Counselor Association Counselor Educator of the Year, the 2024 College of Education and Human Ecology Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2018 Ohio Counseling Association Herman J. Peters Award, the 2015 Kentucky School Counselor Association Outstanding Post-Secondary Counselor, the 2014 Illinois School Counselor Association Friend of ISCA, the 2010 North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Professional Leadership Award, the 2010 Illinois School Counseling Association Presidential Award, and the 2008 North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Outstanding Professional Teaching Award. 

• Doctor of Philosophy, Counseling and Counselor Education, North Carolina State University, 2007
• Master of Theology, Pastoral Counseling, Houston Graduate School of Theology – North Carolina (High Point, NC), 2001
• Bachelor of Arts, Elementary Education, Linfield College (McMinnville, OR), 1998

• Achievement
• Cognitive Development
• Cognitive Psychology
• Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services
  • Achievement
  • Adverse childhood experiences
  • Positive childhood Experiences
  • Protective factors
• Educational Achievement
  • Evidence-based interventions
  • Evidence-based school counseling

• United States Department of Education Grant, Co-PI, $4,598,817. Primary Investigator. Barbara Boone. Ohio Leadership, Equity, Advocacy, Development, and Support (OhioLEADS)
• Ohio Department of Education Grant, Co-PI, $2,100,000. Primary Investigator: Melissa Ross. Strengthening Ohio’s System of Support for English Learners and their Families
• Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Grant, Trainer and Program Manager: Campbell County Elementary Grant, $1,159,506, Aug. 2014.
• Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Grant, Trainer and Program Manager: Campbell County Secondary Grant, $1,007,277, Aug. 2014.
• Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Grant, Trainer and Program Manager: Erlanger Public Schools, $1,192,440, Aug. 2014.
• Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Grant, Trainer and Program Manager: Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services, $975,000, Aug. 2013.
• Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education: Assessment Academies, Targeted Professional Development - Extension Grant (Jennifer Stansbury Koening, Co-PI), $25,000, July 2012.
• Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Grant, Trainer and Program Manager: Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services, $1,182,000, Aug. 2012.