COUNSELING ACADEMIC UNIT FACULTY

Abraham Cazares Cervantes

ABRAHAM CAZARES-CERVANTES

Clinical Assistant Professor, Core Faculty

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Credentials:

  • PhD

  • School Counselor License (OR)

Specialty:

School Counseling; clinical mental health counseling

Research, teaching or practice focus:

  • K-12 Social Emotional support

  • Corpus Linguistics

  • School Counseling Supervision/Site-supervision and training

  • K-12 ELL support as SC

  • Acculturation impact in education

Dr. Naffisatu Dambo

NEFFISATU DAMBO

Instructor, Core Faculty

Credentials:

  • PhD

  • School Counselor License (IL)

Specialty:

School Counseling

Research, teaching or practice focus:

  • Adolescent transitions and college retention

  • Holistic program development and evaluation

  • Multiculturalism and advocacy

  • Instrument design for diverse populations

  • Creative arts and alternative group therapy approaches

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MISTY DE LEI

Counseling Program Lead

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CASS DYKEMAN

Professor, Core Faculty

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Credentials:

  • PhD
  • NCC
  • NCSC
  • MAC
  • School Counselor Cert (WA)

Specialty:

Counselor Education; Research; Academic Writing; Clinical Supervision

Research, teaching or practice focus:

  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Linguistics of Academic Writing
  • Secondary Analysis of Data
  • Online Teaching and Counseling Methods
Thomas Field

THOMAS FIELD

Associate Professor, Core Faculty, Department Head

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Credentials:

  • PhD

  • LMHC and LPC (MA, SD, VA, WA, OR)

  • NCC

  • CCMHC

  • ACS

Specialty:

Counselor Education; Research

Research, teaching or practice focus:

  • Integration of neuroscience into counseling practice

  • professional and social justice advocacy

April Legue

APRIL LAGUE

Clinical Assistant Professor, Core Faculty, Counseling Program Chair, Clinical Coordinator

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Credentials:

  • PhD

  • School Counselor License (WA)

  • NCC

Specialty:

School Counseling

Research, teaching or practice focus:

  • Corpus Linguistics

  • STEM Anxiety

  • Online Teaching Methods

  • School Counselor Advocacy

  • Technology infused Teaching and Learning

  • SEL in the Classroom

Olivia Lewis

OLIVIA LEWIS

Clinical Assistant Professor, Core Faculty

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Credentials:

  • PhD

  • NCC

Specialty:

Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Research, teaching or practice focus:

  • Client outcome based research

  • Nature based counseling interventions

  • Evidence based practice

  • Ecowellness

Arien Muzacz

ARIEN MUZACZ

Clinical Associate Professor, Core Faculty

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Credentials:

  • PhD

  • NCC

  • LPC (OR)

  • LMHC (NY)

  • ACS

Specialty:

Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Counselor Education

Research, teaching or practice focus:

  • Addiction counseling

  • Sexuality, including attraction, behavior and identity, and health disparities

  • Multicultural counseling with a focus on older adults and LGB and T/GNC adolescents/adults

  • Supervision

Kok-Mun Ng

KOK-MUN NG

Professor, Core Faculty

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Credentials:

  • PhD

  • LPC (TX, NC)

  • ACS

  • NCC

Specialty:

Clinical Mental Health Counseling; Couples and Family Counseling; Counselor Education

Research, teaching or practice focus:

  • Training, supervision, and professional identity and development of counselors

  • Theory and practice of couples and family counseling

  • Theory and practice of multicultural and social justice advocacy in counseling

  • Internationalization of counseling

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DEBORAH RUBEL

Professor, Core Faculty

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Credentials:

  • PhD

Specialty:

Counselor Education, Group Work, Research, Academic Writing

Research, teaching or practice focus:

  • Group work and supervision of group work

  • Qualitative research methods

  • Understanding counselor education in the higher education context

  • Mental health stigma among mental health professionals

Linwood Vereen

LINWOOD VEREEN

Clinical Associate Professor, Core Faculty

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Credentials:

  • LPC (ID)
  • NCC

Specialty:

Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Counselor Education

Research, teaching or practice focus:

  • Humanistic Existentialism
  • Black Existentialism
  • Black Mental Health
  • Group Work