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| Leah Clarke, MS, NCC, LPC Doctoral student, Department of Education and Counseling, UNCG Tel: 336.508.6593 Email: lkclarke@uncg.edu |
Biographical Information
Leah Clarke was born in Austin, Texas and received her bachelor’s degree in English and Psychology from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. After working for two years as a paralegal, she came to North Carolina to complete her Master’s in Community Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and remains there as a Ph.D. candidate in Counseling and Counselor Education. She is currently employed as a counselor at Moses Cone Behavioral Health Center, an inpatient psychiatric facility.
Leah’s teaching interests include counseling skills, gender issues in counseling, and cross-cultural counseling. As a counselor, she has experience working with adults, children, adolescents, college students and families in both inpatient and outpatient mental health settings. She assists in teaching a community-based ESOL class and has partnered with local refugee resettlement agencies to co-sponsor newly arrived refugee families. She is currently completing her dissertation on the cognitive coping of Liberian refugee women. Her other research interests include diversity issues in substance abuse counseling, post-traumatic growth and ethnic and gender identity development. Leah has presented at scholarly conferences and has been an invited presenter at staff development retreats and counseling courses.
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