Roy Huggins, LPC NCC, is a counselor in private practice who also directs Person Centered Tech.

Roy worked as a professional Web developer for 7 years before changing paths, and it has been his mission for over a decade to grow clinicians’ understanding of the Internet and other electronic communications mediums for the future of our practices and our professions. Roy is an adjunct instructor at the Portland State University Counseling program where he teaches Ethics, and is a member of the Zur Institute advisory board.

He has acted as a subject matter expert on HIPAA, security and clinical use of technology for licensure boards and both state and national mental health professional organizations. Specifically, he was a member of the Oregon Board of Psychology’s Social Media Guidelines committee. He has co-authored or authored 2 book chapters, and he routinely consults with mental health colleagues on ethical and practical issues surrounding tech in clinical practice. He served for 5 years on the board of the Oregon Mental Health Counselors Association and then the Oregon Counseling Association as the Technology Committee Chair.

He really likes this stuff.