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Shannon Kratky

Credentials:

• PhD Student in Counselor Education and Supervision (Oregon State University)
• MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
• Licensed Professional Counselor (Texas)
• Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (Texas)
• National Certified Counselor (National Board of Certified Counselors)

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• "Complex" PTSD
• Addiction and substance use
• Childhood sexual abuse and other forms of interpersonal violence (IPV)

Research Projects:

• Qualitative study on childhood sexual abuse and "Complex" PTSD in adults
• Current Research: Standards of care for the treatment of LGBTQiA+ needs

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Lauren Summer

Credentials:

• MA, LPC

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Deborah Rubel

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Trauma

Research Projects:

• Qualitative study on clients' conceptualization of trauma

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Leo Gonzalez Jr.

Credentials:

• LMHC
• NCC

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Multicultural counseling
• Clinical mental health counseling
• Emancipatory research

Research Projects:

• Corpus Linguistic study on Hip-Hop Discourse

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Colleen Lam Nguyen

Credentials:

• MA
• LMFT

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Kok-Mun Ng

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Practice focus: trauma
• anxiety
• depression

Research Projects:

• counselor education
• transformative antiracist teaching practices

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Kwabena Yamoah

Credentials:

• MA
• MPA
• LPC
• NCC

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Clinical Private Practice
• University Instructor
• Law Enforcement Wellness
• International Counseling Values
• Internal Program Reviews
• Organizational Consultant

Research Projects:

• Virtual Reality
• Professional Sports Counseling

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Angel Manjarrez

Credentials:

• MA
• LPCC

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Thomas Field

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Counselor Education
• Supervision
• Neuroeducation

Research Projects:

• Using neuroeducation to reduce self-stigma/self-blame - Mixed method study

Danielle Meares

Credentials:

• MA

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Crisis Intervention
• Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Research Projects:

• Stance and Topic Modeling
• Quantitative studies of Mobile Crisis Response Team procedures and approaches

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Fatiha Shannon

Credentials:

• LMFT

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Substance Abuse
• EMDR
• Ecotherapy
• Narrative Therapy

Research Projects:

• Psychedelics as an emerging therapeutic praxis

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Alyson Mullen

Credentials:

• MA, Counseling and Educational Psychology, University of Nevada Reno
• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, #4133 (Nevada)
• Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor, #06904-LC (Nevada)
• Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor Supervisor #06909-LCS (Nevada)
• Perinatal Mental Health Certification, #PSI6208

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Perinatal Mental Health
• Trauma
• Substance Abuse
• Sex Therapy

Research Projects:

• Corpus Linguistic Collocation Study of Pregnancy Blogs and Self-help Books, and Psychological and Linguistic Features in the Natural Language of Opioid-using Pregnant Women

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Lauren Dollarhide

Credentials:

• MS, Counseling, Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling - California State University
• Fresno; LMFT (California #125761)

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Adult Individuals
• Children and Adolescents
• Domestic Violence
• Trauma
• Culturally Responsive Care

Research Projects:

• Research Interests - Culturally Responsive Clinical Supervision
• Stigma of Mental Health within BIPOC Communities
• Impact of Social Media on Body Image and Mental Health Symptoms

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Michael Steube

Credentials:

• LMHP
• CPC

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Deborah Rubel

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

My focus has been on private practice and working with rural populations. I work with a diverse range of clinical issues and I'm well-versed working with anxiety and depression.

Research Projects:

• Mental health stigma in rural populations and technological growth in the counseling field

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Brett Muskavage

Credentials:

• M.Ed in School Counseling
• M.S. in Psychology

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Kok-Mun Ng

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• School Climate
• School Counseling Professional Identity
• Social Justice and Equity in Schools

Research Projects:

• Exploring how school counselors' professional identity can promote an equitable school climate

Mindi J Barta

Credentials:

• Ph.D. Student, Counselor Education, Oregon State University
• LPC, NCC, M.A., Community Counseling, Bushnell University
• EMDR Certified

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Trauma Informed Care
• EMDR
• Counselor Education
• Supervision

Research Projects:

• Extremism
• Mindful Self Compassion
• Counselor Education
• Supervision

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Kathryn E Hecht-Weber

Credentials:

• Ph.D Student, Masters in Counseling, University of Nebraska at Omaha
• PLMHP

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• School Counseling
• Leadership & Advocacy
• Evidence based school counseling programming

Research Projects:

• A corpus linguistic study of the distinctiveness of School Counselors' conversations on technology

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Abigail Hitchon

Credentials:

• T-LPC
• NCC

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Deborah Rubel

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Substance Use Disorder
• Human Trafficking

Research Projects:

• Qualitative study on client experience

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Christina Villa

Credentials:

• Associate MFT

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Counseling Health Science Students

Research Projects:

• Qualitative Study on Health Science Students

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Amy Kennedy

Credentials:

• MS, Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling, Portland State University
• LPC
• CRC

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Deborah Rubel

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Clinical Mental Health Counseling
• Rehabilitation Counseling (adjustment to disability & vocational rehabilitation)
• Trauma (mind-body approaches and post-traumatic growth)
• Transition age youth

Research Projects:

• Qualitative study of adjustment to disability and chronic illness

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Rachel Smith

Credentials:

• MA, Education - Counseling and Guidance, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly, SLO)

Faculty Advisor:

Dr. Cass Dykeman

Research, teaching, and/or practice focus or expertise:

• Counselor Education in connection to Student Affairs/Higher Education

Research Projects:

• A quantitative, corpus linguistics study analyzing the experiences of live-in student affairs professionals across college campuses