Graduate Faculty Research Highlights
Finding Healing, Resilience, and Peace
Clinical Assistant Professor Lisa Collins’ book, “The Truth About Trauma: Break Patterns, Build Resilience, and Restore Joy,” was released this summer. Using a three-step system and personal stories, this book gives readers practical tools to move past trauma and find healing, resilience, and peace.
An Outstanding Scholarly Record
Associate Professor Lina Darwich has been named the Mary Stuart Rogers Professor of Education. This professorship honors distinguished educators, celebrates collective intellectual rigor, stimulates learning, and advances interdisciplinary teaching and research.
Teaching and Empowering Educators to Thrive
Clinical Assistant Professor Elizabeth Denevi co-authored Integrating Education Well-Being, Growth, and Evaluation: Four Foundations for Leaders, with Lori Cohen.
Celebrating Faculty Promotions
Associate Professor Brenda Sifuentez (center) and Professor Elena Diamond (right) were honored by President Holmes-Sullivan and Dean Saultz (left) for their recent promotions to associate professor with tenure and full professor, respectively.
Exploring Counselor Burnout
Assistant Professor Justin Henderson presented “The burnout onion: Peeling back the layers of occupational stress” at the NW Behavioral Health Institute Conference in Portland.
A New Certificate, Rooted in Nature
Professor Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe has spearheaded a new 8-credit certificate for counseling, therapy, and school psychology master’s degree students, eco-soma-arts, to offers clinicians and clinicians-in-training concrete ways of working in and with nature using somatic, verbal, spiritual, and artistic expressions.
Guiding Future Counselors and Educators
Associate Professor Rafe McCullough presented “Guiding future counselors to support trans and non-binary clients in a fearful climate,” with Community Counseling Center Director Nori Gruber, and “Teaching disability with depth: a framework for counselor educators,“ alongside Palo Alto University Professor Tameeka Hunter at the ACES conference in Philadelphia.
Deconstructing Monogamy and Leveraging Community Cultural Wealth
Assistant Professor Gon Ratanashevorn presented “Decolonizing Monogamy and Deconstructing Mononormativity in Counselor Education” and “See Our Strengths: Leveraging Community Cultural Wealth to Empower International Counseling Students of Color” at the Association Counselor Education and Supervision Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.