She received her Ph. D. in Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology at the University of Connecticut in 2015, where her dissertation won a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award. Dr. DeRonck also received an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Central Connecticut State University in 2007. Dr. DeRonck completed a M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling and a C.A.S in School Counseling from the State University of New York at Albany in 1996 and 1997 respectively. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Gettysburg College in 1995.