Counseling Leaders and Advocates

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Storlie, Cassandra, editor. | Herlihy, Barbara, editor.

Title: Counseling leaders and advocates: strengthening the future of the profession / editors, Cassandra A Storlie, Barbara Herlihy.

Description: Alexandria: American Counseling Association, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021019223 | ISBN 9781556204012 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Counseling. | Counseling—Moral and ethical aspects. | Social advocacy. | Counselors—Professional ethics.

Classification: LCC BF636.67 .C68 2021 | DDC 158.3—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021019223

To the future leaders and advocates in the counseling profession.

We (Cassandra A. Storlie and Barbara Herlihy), as coeditors of this book, welcome you to Counseling Leaders & Advocates: Strengthening the Future of the Profession ! As professional counselors, we are naturally drawn to and curious about the stories of our clients. Our curiosity allows us to delve into their worldviews and provides an avenue to better understand how to advocate with and for them. In a parallel way, each of us engages in a form of leadership known as “servant leadership” by ensuring that service is central to the counseling profession and that the needs of others come first (Greenleaf, 1970). This servant leadership philosophy, which is congruent with the founding principles of counseling, fueled our own curiosity about the stories of our current counseling leaders. How do their unique stories help us better understand diverse worldviews and the future of leadership and advocacy in the counseling profession? Part I provides more detailed information about the organization of the book and perspectives on leadership and advocacy; Part II presents the stories of 13 leaders/advocates and is truly the heart of this work; and Part III provides a synthesis and some concluding thoughts. We are excited to offer this book and hope you will find it enjoyable and instructive. For us, serving as coeditors for this work has truly been a labor of love.

When any new book appears, hidden behind the curtain are vital contributors without whom the work would not exist. This book is no exception. We are grateful to the five leaders/advocates who served as our Academy of Advisors, participating in a modified Delphi process to select the leaders and advocates who are profiled in Part II. We greatly appreciate the work of the two peer reviewers who read the first draft of this work and provided many insightful comments and helpful suggestions for improvement. Working with our publishers, Carolyn Baker and Nancy Driver, at the American Counseling Association has been a true pleasure. We further thank our family, friends, and colleagues who have encouraged and supported us throughout this process.

Cassandra A. Storlie, PhD, LPCC-S (Ohio), NCC, RN (Illinois)is an associate professor and doctoral program coordinator in the Counselor Education and Supervision program at Kent State University. She earned her PhD in counselor education and supervision from the University of Iowa.

Storlie has held a variety of leadership positions in counseling at the state, regional, national, and international levels. She is a past president of NCACES (North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision) where she also served as secretary (2015–2016). Storlie chaired the ACES Advocacy Interest Network (2013–2017), has served as an ACES proposal reviewer/mentor, and served on a variety of ACES task forces. She chaired the ACES Bylaws & Resolutions Committee (2020–2021), serves as ACES secretary (2021–2022), and is cochair of the ACES Strategic Planning Committee (2021–2023).

Storlie served as secretary (2016–2018) and chair of the Counselor Community Engagement Committee (2013–2016) for Chi Sigma Iota International. She is the associate editor for the Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy ( JCLA ). She has served on the Professional Advocacy Task Force for the American Counseling Association (ACA; 2015–2016) and cochaired ACA’s Awards Committee (2019–2020). Storlie was awarded the National Career Development Association’s Diversity Initiative Award (2016), Outstanding Mentor of the Year for OACES (Ohio ACES; 2017), Ohio Counseling Association’s Writing & Research Award (2019), and was the 2020 recipient of JCLA ’s Outstanding Article Award. In 2019, she was awarded Distinguished Faculty Researcher in the College of Education, Health & Human Services at Kent State University. As a Latina, her research is focused on leadership and advocacy and the career development of Latinx/os/as and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) communities. She has authored or coauthored approximately 45 journal articles and book chapters.

Storlie and her husband, Chad, have one daughter, Audrey. She enjoys distance running and playing with her two large dogs, Buddy and Derby. She is beyond grateful for the mentorship she has received throughout her career and especially from Barbara Herlihy, coeditor of this book.

Barbara Herlihy, PhD, NCC, LPC-S,is a professor in practice and doctoral program director in the Counselor Education program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is also professor emeritus in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of New Orleans.

Herlihy has served in several leadership positions, most recently as president of the Chi Sigma Iota International honor society (2017–2018). She is a past chair of the ACA Ethics Committee, the ACA Foundation, and the ACA International Committee. She currently serves as associate editor for ethics for the journal Counseling and Values . She is a past recipient of the Southern ACES Courtland Lee Social Justice Award and the ACES Distinguished Mentor Award. She is an ACA Fellow.

A prolific writer, Herlihy is coauthor (with Gerald Corey and with Theodore P. Remley) of three current books on counselor ethics, and she has authored or coauthored approximately 100 journal articles and book chapters. Her professional interests include ethics, social justice and advocacy, transcultural counseling, and feminist therapy. She is passionate about furthering the ethical globalization of the counseling profession. She loves international travel and has presented seminars and workshops across the United States and in other countries, including Mexico, Venezuela, Malta, Argentina, and Italy.

Patrick Akos, PhD,has professional experience as a school and college career counselor that informs his work as a professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research, teaching, supervision, clinical practice, and leadership are grounded in a strengths-based framework, which is informed by humanistic traditions and empirically supported by contemporary scholarship (e.g., positive psychology). Broadly, he examines how best to support and cultivate thriving, especially during educational and career transitions.