Contacts & Coursework

Childhood Trauma: Promoting Healing, Resilience, and Hope in Schools

• Focused on trauma-informed school practices, resilience-building interventions, and supporting students impacted by adversity and trauma.

 

Issues of Diversity in Cross-Cultural Counseling and Advocacy

• Explored multicultural counseling frameworks, identity, advocacy, and culturally responsive approaches to supporting diverse student populations.

 

The Process of Counseling: Advanced Skills, Techniques, and the Counselor

• Developed advanced counseling and group facilitation skills through identity-conscious and developmentally responsive counseling practice.

 

Reframing Inclusive Education: Supporting Students with Identified Disabilities Through Classroom Community and Asset-Based Pedagogy

• Examined inclusive education through strengths-based, community-centered, and asset-oriented approaches to supporting diverse learners.

 

​Legal and Ethical Issues in Child Advocacy

• Explored ethical decision-making, child advocacy, educational law, and professional responsibilities within counseling and school settings.

 

Education Across Cultures: Beliefs and Practices in Schools and Families

• Examined how culture shapes educational systems, family practices, identity development, and student experiences across contexts.

 

 

Additional Graduate Coursework:

 

Counseling & Mental Health

• The Process of Counseling: Essential Skills, Techniques, and the Counselor

• Counseling Practicum: Reflection and Application in Practice I & II

• Self-Care and Wellness for Educators, Practitioners, and Schools

• Sexuality in Schools

• Theories and Methods of Child/Adolescent Cognitive and Psychological Assessment

• The Challenges Kids Face: Developmental, Cultural, & Contextual Perspectives on Risk & Resilience

 

Child Development & Family Systems

• Theory, Practice, and Technique in Working with Children, Adolescents, and Families I & II

• Inventing the Future: Building Connections from School to Career

 

Inclusive & Learner-Centered Education

• Teaching Students Identified with (Dis)abilities in Inclusive Classrooms

• A Pedagogy of Listening: Exploring the Reggio Emilia Approach and Other Learner-Centered Practices