Using a qualitative design, a clinical mental health counselor explored the use of trauma-informed self-regulation strategies with clinical mental health counselors in training (CITs) to capture their experience of vicarious trauma. Participants included three CITs in an urban setting and two CITs in a rural setting enrolled in a CACREP-accredited…

This dissertation explores the somatic manifestations of trans youth and the process by which those manifestations are developed through oppressive experiences in schools. The phenomenological inquiry of two co-researchers (i.e. participants), which utilized open ended phenomenological questions on specific moments of oppression, addresses a gap…