Dr. Rebecca Cowan is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a National Certified Counselor. She is a Professor at Capella University in the Harold Abel School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, an Adjunct Professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Counseling and Human Services, and a Community Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School in the Department of Family Medicine. She has twelve years of clinical experience working in private practice, in-patient psychiatric, residential treatment, integrated care, and foster care settings. Dr. Cowan has conducted and published numerous research studies, served on the Institutional Review Board, and currently serves as a peer-reviewer for five scholarly research journals.

Elder and child mistreatment, integrated care, social justice issues, and body image issues