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My Research Interests:

Development of culturally responsive assessments and interventions for the immigrant population, for youth with autism from underserved and diverse cultural backgrounds.

I advocate through my research, teaching, and service for people from systemically oppressed backgrounds to quality mental health care and access.

I also examine how trauma passes from generation to generation and how collective healing occurs.

I examine how family relationships are formed, developed, and nurtured in different contexts such as immigration, adaption, disability, etc.

My work is community-based, action-oriented and healing-focused. That means we focus on the person's strengths and help alleviate distress.

Graduate Course Taught Recently

• Advanced Professional Issues in Counseling    
• Supervised Clinical Practice in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling  
• Theories of Counseling  
• Counseling Techniques 
  • Advanced Theories of Counseling and Human (course thought at Addis Ababa University)

Course taught in the past 

Doctoral Courses:

• Theoretical Foundation to Qualitative Research   
• Advanced Counseling and Consultation Theory  
• Counselor Educ. And Supervision of Leadership in a Diverse Society  
• Group Counseling   
• Counselor Educ. & Supervision Internship I  
• Counselor Educ. & Supervision Internship II  
• Dissertation   
• Methods of Individual Assessment Qualitative Research in Counselor Education   

Master’s Courses:

• Therapeutic Technique: Individual Counseling   
• Counseling and Consultation Theory   
• Group Counseling: Theory and Technique   
• Introduction to Clinical Counseling and Ethical Practice   
• Multicultural Issues and Strategies in Counseling   
• Trauma, Disaster, and Crisis Counseling   
• Group Counseling Lab  
• Practicum in Counseling  
• Counseling Internship  
• Individual Appraisal  
• Multicultural Counseling    
• Group Counseling