Northcentral University

4 Liz Pollock, PhD, LMFT Part-Time Faculty, Department of Marriage and Family Sciences Dr. Liz Pollock is excited to be a part of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Northcentral University for approaching 3 years. She truly enjoys helping her students learn as much as they can in her classes. She loves setting students up for success by teaching a foundations course (MFT 5101), broadening students' perspectives and understanding of human development (MFT 6101), and helping students understand the science and artistry of couples therapy (in MFT 6510 and MFT 6511). Dr. Pollock has spent the last 15 years cultivating her skills teaching, being a marriage and family therapist, researcher, and program evaluator. She has had the privilege of teaching at the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, Marymount University, and Trinity University. As a marriage and family therapist, she has worked in an elementary school, at a nonprofit providing services for youth and their families, at a private psychiatry practice, led adventure therapy in the great outdoors, and operates her own private practice specializing in couples. She's also had the honor of working as a researcher and program evaluator for Health & Human Services Administration of Children and Families in the Division of Family Strengthening, in her own consulting practice, and supporting military families at the Uniformed Services University Human Performance Resource Center. Dr. Pollock holds a B.A. in Political Science and History from Rice University, a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and a PhD in Family Science from the University of Maryland. Dr. Pollock focuses on strength-based research and practice and is especially interested in resilience in high-stress occupations, using research and evaluation to inform policy and programming, continuous quality improvement, and the translation of evidence for lay audiences. Dr. Pollock is often described as a warm, enthusiastic, and caring professional who brings fresh, hopeful, soothing, and empowering perspectives to those who work with her. She believes wholeheartedly in the importance of building positive and respectful relationships. She takes her position as an educator very seriously and is excited to be cultivating the next generation of marriage and family therapists at NCU.

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