Dr. Myra Jordan obtained her MA in Counseling from Sonoma State University in 2010 and her Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2013. She has focused her career on multicultural counseling competence, stemming from her dissertation on social identity complexity in counselors. Dr. Jordan has been a counselor educator since 2013, including teaching positions at Virginia Tech, at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Asheville, North Carolina, and at OSU (since 2024).
Dr. Jordan’s clinical work primarily addresses the needs of teenagers and college students, particularly those wrestling with identity development across diverse demographics. She facilitates consultation groups for practitioners engaging with Relational-Cultural Theory and is committed to developing multiculturally humble and competent counselors. She actively participates in key counseling associations, holds an LCMHC-A license, and her professional interests include enhancing anti-racist and decolonized counselor education practices.
Students describe her as a passionately engaging and challenging educator who employs relational cultural theory in her teaching. Outside academia, she enjoys reading, running, knitting, crocheting, and active adventures with her family.