Jon Sperry

Jon Sperry is a core faculty member in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Lynn University. Sperry’s area of expertise is competency-based instruction and outcomes-focused evaluation. More specifically, he has been engaged in teaching, research, writing, and conference presentations on case conceptualization in counseling practice. Sperry is also very active in the research and theory of Individual Psychology, in which he has spent the last 17 years researching, publishing, and presenting about this counseling approach. He was President of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP) in 2017-2018; and, he is currently the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Individual Psychology (JIP). In 2018, he was appointed as a board member of the International Committee for Adlerian Summer Schools and Institutes (ICASSI) which focuses on Individual Psychology counseling techniques and is hosted in a new country each year. He has served as an ICASSI faculty member since 2015.


Sperry has co-authored eight books that have been translated in four different languages, four book chapters, and various professional articles. In addition to publications, he has presented at state, national, and international conferences. He has also conducted workshops and lectures in countries around the globe- including Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, The Bahamas, Canada, China, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Wales.