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Teaching and Supervision in Counseling

Author ORCID Identifier

S Anandavalli

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1193-213X

John J. S. Harrichand

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3336-2062

Author Biographies

S Anandavalli PhD, NCC, LPC, CCTP, is an award-winning, nationally recognized trauma-informed mental health counselor and counselor educator. She is the owner and founder of Soulfulness Counseling, LLC, a private practice dedicated to serving women who have been exposed to early childhood trauma.

John J. S. Harrichand, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMHC, NCC, CCMHC, ACS, CCTP is a Canadian of Chinese and East Indian ancestry, an immigrant to Canada and the son of immigrants, who was born and raised in Guyana, South America. His research spans 3 important areas: (i) culturally responsive counseling practices for working with minoritized communities: international students, immigrants and refugees, LGBTQ+ individuals, and sex-trafficked survivors; (ii) understanding, educating, and supporting early career counselor educators in their teaching and supervision related to gatekeeping and psychological safety; and (iii) leadership and professional advocacy development of master’s and doctoral students, and supporting ethnic minority counseling leaders through mentorship.

Dr. McCullough’s (Ph.D., LPC, LMHC, NCC) teaching and scholarship center on multicultural and social justice counseling and advocacy, addressing and centering aspects of identity in counseling, disability, and affirming counseling practices for queer, trans and nonbinary individuals. Dr. McCullough is one of the authors of the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies. He has been awarded the American Counseling Association Courtland C. Lee Multicultural Excellence Scholarship Award

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7290/tsc07d9n6

Abstract

The authors of this article sought to explore the research mentoring needs of International Doctoral Counseling Students (IDCS). The purpose of this inquiry was to help research mentors better support this community. Centering Relational Cultural Theory as the theoretical framework, the authors interviewed 14 participants. These individuals were identified using convenience and snowball sampling. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis, three grand themes emerged from participants’ interviews: socialization and belonging in academia, feeling invisible, and mutuality and research. Implications for research mentors and/or counselor educators, and future research are also discussed.

Public Significance Statement

As international students in doctoral counseling (IDCS) increase in numbers, it is imperative that mentors and institutions are prepared to offer culturally congruent and relational mentorship. Support and advocating for IDCS can help widen the representation in the counseling field, increase ontological diversity in mental health research and scholarship.

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