In counseling education, one learns the unique ability to help people from all walks of life with a never-ending list of human endeavors. This dissertation explored the lived experiences of counselor educators in training and how their privileged and/or marginalized social identities impacted their professional identity. Though this dissertation…

Counselor educators (CEs) are educators as well as dually trained counselors. Some CEs engage in continued clinical practice while working as tenured or tenure-track professors. I sought to understand the value of continued clinical practice for CEs to understand how clinical practice impacts teaching. Nine expert panelists were selected to…

This qual-QUAN mixed methods study explores how significantly the theoretical and theological impetus of the seminary licensure focused counseling programs impact the actual practice of those who have received this education and training (Hall and Roussel, 2012). The theological and theoretical foundations, expert panel, and counselors' responses…

Professional identity development occurs during graduate training through mentoring, modeling, and academic training by counselor educators. If counselor educators are to transmit this professional identity, they must possess a robust professional identity themselves. Professional identity development theory suggests that the strength of this…

Both the counseling and counselor education fields assert to increase diversity when considering representation of practitioners and educators to provide culturally sensitive and considerate care to diverse clients (Meyers, 2017). Relatedly, Black doctoral students represent 25.09% within counselor education programs highlighting a lower…

Supervision aims to protect clients and continue the development of supervisees. After graduation from formal counseling programs, supervision becomes the primary teaching, learning, and evaluative setting. Supervisors are tasked with monitoring and advancing their supervisees' skills and abilities, including multicultural competence and cultural…

Social change and social justice have become an increasingly important movement within the profession of counselor education. Feminism shares a philosophical foundation with social justice movements. Despite the overlapping philosophy, feminists within counselor education have little visibility, and a dearth of literature regarding their…

Using a basic qualitative research design, this author interviewed eight Latino doctoral students in counseling programs about their professional identity development experiences. The author analyzed the data from a Latino Critical Race theoretical perspective to explore the ways in which power and privilege played a role in the participants'…

The personal integration into the professional identity of doctoral students has been under-researched in the profession of counselor education. While a considerable amount of research has attended to personal congruence in the professional development of emerging counselors, this value seems to be absent from current counselor education…

Women in academia navigate multiple professional and personal roles, and may face unique challenges to integrate their intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual selves. The narrative of constraint underscores the disadvantages, challenges, and inequities that women who are mothers and academics face in their lives. This lack of privilege…

The literature on counselor development suggests that the development of a professional identity is a fundamental aspect of counselor training. The unique demands placed on counselors to integrate aspects of both personal and professional identity into the therapeutic process (Skovholt & Ronnestad, 1995) make development of a professional…