Marty Jencius earned his Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of South Carolina. He has had 16 years in clinical practice working with addiction issues, community mental health, emotionally handicap children and in consultation with employee assistance programs.

He is founder and list manager for CESNET-L, a professional listserv for counselor educators and co-founding editor of The Journal of Technology in Counseling, a web-based, peer reviewed journal.

He is on the editorial board of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work and acts as co-editor of the interview section of The Family Journal. His scholarly interests include multicultural counseling training, counselor education pedagogy, and the use of technology in counseling.