Meet the Contributors

      Talana Butler is a second-year student in the master’s counseling program at Xavier University of Louisiana, where she serves as coordinator of the university’s Center for Traumatic Stress Research, working under the direction of Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji. Ms. Butler’s research interests focus on clinical interventions for adjudicated youth. She is a graduate of the psychology program at Southern University (Baton Rouge, LA).

      Julia Champe, PhD, core faculty at Walden University, teaches counseling theory, practicum, and research coursework in the clinical mental health and counselor education and supervision programs. A former co-owner of a rural private practice specializing in low-cost couple and family counseling, Dr. Champe has taught in counselor education programs in Wisconsin and Illinois. An avid group worker, Dr. Champe has written several articles on group work theory and practice and taught group work across the United States and in Japan. She currently serves as chair of the Product Development Committee for the Association for Specialists in Group Work and as an editorial reviewer for The Journal for Specialists in Group Work. She has cowritten extensively on counselor education and diversity, cultural competence, and inter-cultural communication. Dr. Champe’s additional areas of scholarly interest include supervision, counselor development, sexuality, multicultural issues, and qualitative research.

      Lauren B. Clark, MS, LPC, NCC, is a current doctoral candidate in the counselor education program at the University of New Orleans. She serves as Doctoral Member-at-Large for Chi Sigma Iota-Alpha Eta chapter at the University of New Orleans and has published the journal article, “Utilizing Mindfulness Based CBT to Address Anger and Aggression in Middle Schools.”

      Tatiana Cruz, MS, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor in New York state and current doctoral student at the University of Texas at San Antonio studying counselor education and supervision. She received her master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

      Thelma Duffey, PhD, is professor and chair in the Department of Counseling at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and past president of the American Counseling Association (ACA). An ACA Fellow, Dr. Duffey was a longtime member of the ACA Governing Council and a two-term ACA treasurer. Dr. Duffey was the founding president of the Association for Creativity in Counseling, a division within ACA, and she is editor of the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health. Dr. Duffey has received numerous leadership and research awards from professional organizations, including ACA, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, the Texas Counseling Association, the Texas Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, and the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling. The Association for Creativity in Counseling established an award in her name. Dr. Duffey has over 60 peer-reviewed publications and four edited and coedited books. Her research interests include relational-cultural theory, developmental relational counseling, creativity in counseling, crisis and trauma counseling, and strengths-based leadership. She is currently spearheading a leadership academy initiative for faculty and doctoral students within her college. Dr. Duffey provided support and consultation in the Newtown, Connecticut, community following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and co-led efforts to provide crisis and trauma services to Sutherland Springs, Texas, and neighboring communities after the church shooting in 2017. Dr. Duffey codirects the Academy for Crisis and Trauma Counseling within the Department of Counseling at UTSA. During her tenure as ACA president, Dr. Duffey led a national antibullying and interpersonal violence initiative, and she currently leads efforts within the UTSA Department of Counseling to support the works of the David’s Legacy Foundation.

Roxane L. Dufrene, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT, NCC, is an associate professor of counseling in the Department of Educational Leadership, Counseling, and Foundations at The University of New Orleans. She holds a doctorate in counselor education from Mississippi State University and a master’s in counseling psychology from Nicholls State University. Dr. Dufrene has clinical experience in outpatient and inpatient state mental health treatment, college counseling, crisis intervention, training clinics, and collaboration in schools and private practice. She is a Louisiana licensed marriage and family therapist, a licensed professional counselor, a licensed professional counselor approved supervisor, and a national certified counselor. Dr. Dufrene is also certified in critical incident stress management and psychological first aid, has Louisiana appraisal privilege, and is an American Red Cross mental health counselor. Her research and teaching interests include disaster mental health, crisis counseling, student remediation, counseling ethics, qualitative and quantitative research in counseling, and supervision.

      Cass Dykeman, PhD, is a professor of counseling at Oregon State University. He is the author of two books, 33 book chapters, and 46 peer-reviewed articles. His expertise includes the use of corpus linguistics, Bayesian statistics, and artificial intelligence in counseling research. Prior to working in higher education, he was an elementary and high school counselor in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Dykeman is past president of both the Washington State Association for Counselor Education and Supervision and the Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. His current research focus is on the use of natural language processing with counseling transcripts.

Mary Lou Bryant Frank, PhD, MS, MEd, is Fellow at the Institute for Higher Education at the University of Georgia and adjunct faculty at Middle Georgia State University and Brenau University. She is a licensed psychologist, court-approved mediator, consultant, and speaker. She served as vice president for