Becky Georgi, MS, LPC, LCAS, CCS is the Senior Counselor at Durham Academy (a College Preparatory Independent School) and holds a faculty position in the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center.  She received a Master of Science degree in Education and Counseling at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana and holds a certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from the Menninger Clinic.  Becky is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a License Clinical Addiction Specialist and a Certified Clinical Supervisor.

For over two decades, Becky’s professional experience has focused on working with adolescents and their families specializing in substance abuse education and treatment.  At Durham Academy, Becky is responsible for developing wellness programming for the school community, providing individual counseling for students, and implementing educational plans for students with learning differences.  She is the chairman of Durham Academy’s Wellness Committee, which promotes awareness, education and prevention in the areas of substance abuse, eating disorders, relational aggression and sexual misconduct by promoting healthy relationships within the educational community. Currently, Becky and Jeff Georgi, her husband, are involved in developing and implementing a recovery maintenance program for the students and their families of the Carlbrook School in Halifax, VA.

Prior to focusing her efforts in education, Becky worked as the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program Director at Duke Addictions Program, Duke University.  In this capacity, she brought this program into compliance with accrediting agencies and developed a standard of care, which has been nationally recognized.  She was one of the first outpatient directors to successfully incorporate smoking cessation within an adolescent substance abusing patient population at Duke. Previously, she worked in outpatient and inpatient settings including Charter Behavioral Health, South Bend, Indiana, as a program director of adolescent services.

In an effort to combine her knowledge of science and education, Becky has worked on several projects and published papers related to adolescent development and health with Aaron White, PhD., Assistant Professor at Duke University Medical Center and William Jansen, PhD., Research Professor, Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Health Policy in The Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University.  The topics of these articles include marijuana and the adolescent brain, communication between parents and students about substance use, bullying, student interrelationships, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and dating violence. She has also worked closely on national efforts such as creating a “Community of Concern”, with Founder Mimi Fleury, through Georgetown Preparatory School, to create parental awareness of drug, alcohol, and substance abuse prevention. Becky has also worked with Katie Koestner to prevent date rape and Barbara Coloroso addressing relational aggression as well as many other experts in the education and prevention field.