Dr. Michell Temple Subscription Liaison: Multicultural Counseling and Development

Dr. Michell Temple, Ph.D., Ed.D., CRC, NCC, ACS, LPC (CO,GA), LPC/MHSP (TN), serves an Assistant Professor of Counseling at Denver Seminary and a private practice Rehabilitation and Mental Health counselor. She also serves on the USA-based team for the International Mental Health Consultants and the International Postgraduate Educational Institute of Ukraine, where she engages in fundraising and teaches in the trauma therapy certificate program. She earned a Ph.D. from Regent University in Counselor Education and Supervision and an Ed.D. from the University of West Georgia in Professional Counseling and Supervision. Dr. Temple earned a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling from Georgia State University.
Her areas of clinical expertise include vocational rehabilitation, well-being, resilience and stress, career counseling and exploration, phase of life transitions, trauma, depression, and anxiety. She has developed a unique skill set that incorporates spirituality and religion, wellness, and integrative therapeutic modalities to adapt counseling to meet clients' needs. She is trained in EMDR, CPT, ACT, DBT, and Strategic Trauma and Abuse Recovery.
She demonstrates applicable expertise in topics related to multicultural counseling and development. She is the lead faculty and teaches the social and cultural foundation course. She also integrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in curriculum and course policies. She is a member of the 2019 Cohort of the NBCC-F Mental Health Doctoral Fellowship, where she focused on preparing counselors to provide high-quality services through an intersectionality framework to persons with disabilities. She is an Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), 2023 Research Grant recipient. Her current grounded theory study on the process of changing oppressive relationships in counselor education is in the final data analysis phase. Also, Dr. Temple was recently awarded a Wabash Center large grant for the project title, Preparing Seminary faculty to integrate multicultural education in their classrooms. Some her publications include Black Males with Disabilities: The Role of Self-determination in College Completion, Imagining Human Relationship Dynamics Differently, and a case for the Social and Cultural Foundations chapter in Case studies in counselor education. She is currently writing a faith-based intercultural counseling textbook. She has published in peer-reviewed journals on ethics education in counselor training, rehabilitation counseling, manualized spiritual integrated therapies, and resilience. Dr. Temple's research interests include human relationship dynamics, ethics and counselor identity development, manualized and spiritual integrated therapies, resilience, stress, and wellbeing. She regularly teaches these PhD courses: Advanced Research Methods, Cultural Foundations in Counselor Education, and Qualitative Research Methods in the PhD Program. She also teaches these master’s level courses: Psychopathology and Diagnosis, Research Methods, Assessment and Evaluation in Counseling, and Social and Cultural Foundations.

Dr. Temple has worked in higher education and community settings for nearly two decades. During this time, she has developed and implemented initiatives that sustain the engagement, support self-efficacy, and the inclusion of people from diverse populations in educational and employment settings. She has engaged in advocacy and leadership at the national and state levels through nonprofits such as The Center for the Visually Impaired in Atlanta, the Tennessee Vocational Rehabilitation Services, and the Commission for the Certification of Rehabilitation Counselors. Her nonprofit and professional organization service experience includes roles of president, president-elect, parliamentarian, mentor, secretary, trustee, treasurer, and board member. She is a member of the National Association of Multicultural Rehabilitation Concerns (NAMRC), a division of the National Rehabilitation Association and Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD). Other professional memberships include American Counseling Association, Counselors for Social Justice, Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, and ASERVIC.