Professor, Psychologist

My research focuses on psychotherapy relationships and processes, supervision relationships and processes, as well as training-related topics. I am primarily a qualitative researcher, specifically using consensual qualitative research (CQR). I teach in both the master’s and doctoral programs (Introduction to Counseling; Psychopathology; Counseling Internship; Qualitative Research; Supervision). I received my undergraduate degree from University of Virginia [English Education], my master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University [Liberal Arts] and University of Maryland [Counseling Psychology], and my doctoral degree from University of Maryland [Counseling Psychology]. I am a licensed psychologist in Wisconsin.

Dr. Knox will take on a new counseling psychology doctoral student for Fall 2025.

Recent Publications and/or Presentations

• Farber, B. A., Hill, C. E., Knox, S., Eubanks, C. F., Muran, J. C., & Norcross, J. C. (2023). Affirmation/Validation, self-disclosure, immediacy, and rupture repairs. In C. E. Hill & J. C. Norcross (Eds.) Psychotherapy skills and methods that work (pp. 28-52). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Hill, C. E., Knox, S., & Duan, C. (2023). Advice, suggestions, and recommendations. In C. E. Hill & J. C. Norcross (Eds.) Psychotherapy skills and methods that work (pp. 224-246). Oxford, UK: Oxford Press.
• Hill, C. E., Knox, S., Farber, B., Eubanks, C. E., Zetzer, H., & Anderson, T. (2023). The role of faith and doubt in the development of six psychotherapy scholars and practitioners: Implications for training and supervision. In L. G. Castonguay & C. E. & Hill, C. E. (Eds.). Being and becoming a psychotherapist: Training and supervision (pp. 357-378). American Psychological Association.
• Cooper, M., Di Malta, G., Knox, S., Oddli, H, & Swift, J. Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study. (2023). Psychotherapy Research, 33 (8). https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2022.2161967
• Knox, S., Goertz, M., Mak, T., Pinto-Coelho, K., & Hill, C. E. Supervisees’ experiences of immediacy in supervision. (In press, Journal of Psychotherapy Integration).
• Knox, S., Miller, C., Twidwell, R. E., & Knowlton, G. Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure. (2023). Psychotherapy Research, 33 (3), 298-315. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QPAWSDXHCNFJ2D58R4QX/full?target=10.1080/10503307.2022.2110020
• Knox, S., Callender, K., Mak, A., Skaistis, S., & Knowlton, G. (2022). How graduate-student or recent graduate psychotherapists experience and manage errors in psychotherapy. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 35 (2), 397-420.
• Knox, S., Cook, J. M., Ravi, N., & Knowlton, G. (2022). The effects of secular choral singing on US singers. Journal of Music, Health, and Wellbeing.
• Knox, S., & Hill, C. E. (2021). Training and supervision in psychotherapy: What we know and where we need to go. In M. Barkham, W. Lutz, & L. Castonguay (Eds.) Bergin and Garfield’s handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change, (50th anniversary edition, pp. 327-349). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• Hill, C. E., & Knox, S. (2021). Essentials of consensual qualitative research. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
• Hill, C. E., & Knox, S. (2021). Foreword. In C. E. Hill & S. Knox (Series Eds.). Essentials of qualitative research. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
• Series Editor (with Clara E. Hill). (2021). Essentials of Qualitative Research, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Caperton, W., Butler, M., Kaiser, D., Connelly, J., & Knox, S. (2019). Stay-at-home fathers, depression, and help-seeking: A consensual qualitative research study. Advance online publication. Psychology of Men and Masculinity. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000223
• Hill, C. E., Knox, S., & Pinto-Coelho, K. G. (2019). Self-disclosure and immediacy. In J. C. Norcross & M. J. Lambert (Eds.), Psychotherapy relationships that work (3rd ed., pp. 379-420). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Knox, S., Connelly, J., Rochlen, A. B., Clinton, M., Butler, M., & Lineback, S. (2019). How therapists navigate Facebook with clients. Training and Education in Professional Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000267
• Duan, C., Knox, S., & Hill, C. E. (2018). Advice in psychotherapy. In MacGeorge, E.L., & Van Swol, L.M. (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Advice (pp. 175-196). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Hill, C.E., Knox, S., & Pinto-Coelho, K.G. (2018). Therapist self-disclosure and immediacy: A qualitative meta-analysis. Psychotherapy, 55 (4), 445-460.
• Iwakabe, S., & Knox, S. (2018). Editorial. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 31 (4), 407.
• Knox, S., Cook, J., Knowlton, G., & Hill, C. E. Therapists’ experiences with internal representations of clients. (2018). Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 31 (3), 353-374.
• Hill, C. E., Kanazawa, Y., Knox, S., Schauerman, I. Loureiro, D., James, D., Carter, I., King, S., Razzak, S., Scarff, M., & Moore, J. (2017). Meaning in life in psychotherapy: The perspective of experienced therapists. Psychotherapy Research, 27, 381- 396. doi: 10.1080/10503307.2015.1110636
• Knox, S., Hill, C. E., Knowlton, G., Chui, H., Pruitt, N., & Tate, K. (2017). Crying in psychotherapy: The perspective of therapists and clients. Psychotherapy, 54 (3), 292-306.
• Knox, S., Butler, M., Kaiser, D., Knowlton, G., & Hill, C.E. (2017). Something to laugh about: Humor as a Characteristic of effective therapists. In Castonguay, L.G. & Hill, C.E. (Eds.), How and why are some therapists better than others? Understanding therapist effects (pp. 285-305). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
• Knox, S., & Hill, C. E. (Eds.). (2016). Disclosure and concealment in psychotherapy. Special Issue of Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 29 (1).
• Knox, S., & Hill, C. E. (2016). Introduction to a special issue on disclosure and concealment in psychotherapy. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 29 (1), 1-6, DOI: 10.1080/09515070.2015.1095156