Building Professional Excellence
Maximizing Your Counseling Degree to Diversify Your Income
Counselor educators in Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)-accredited counseling programs provide students with the knowledge and skills to become licensed professional counselors. However, minimal attention is given to helping graduate counseling students understand how to maximize their counseling degree. Academic demands, including time constraints, gatekeeping, and overall program management, may contribute to the lack of attention given to this content. Professional development opportunities may provide insight for counselors who seek to supplement and/or change their primary income. During this webinar, the presenter will communicate various job opportunities and methods for diversifying the income of master’s- and doctoral-level counselors.
After this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the various job opportunities related to their counseling degree.
- Gain insight into at least three ways to supplement their primary income.
- Identify how to communicate their knowledge and skills when seeking opportunities in related professions.
Dr. Charmaine Conner, PhD, NCC, LPC
Dr. Charmaine Conner is an assistant professor of counselor education at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (TX) and National Certified Counselor (NCC) with experience providing mental health services to children, adolescents, and adults in a variety of settings—residential, private practice, and non-profit agencies. She specializes in play therapy, servicing children who are transracially adopted, children who have experienced trauma, and children who have demonstrated academic and behavioral concerns. Her clinical experiences have afforded her the knowledge and skills to teach, supervise, facilitate workshops, consult, and engage in program evaluation. Dr. Conner was selected as a 2018–2019 Doctoral Fellow with the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), and she currently serves as the Advisory Council Chair for the NBCC MFP for mental health counselors. Her commitment to serving underserved and underrepresented populations and infusing social justice practices into the counseling profession has continued through her scholarly publications, presentations at professional conferences, and mentorship with students and supervisees.
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