Rachael Marshall

My main research focus on career development. Career Development is defined as exploring how people develop career and personal identity. This main focus naturally connects to career counseling practice and counselor career development. These research interests work together to build a foundation for my research agenda. Each of these are interconnected –career development aligns with work that explores how, why, and in what ways individuals develop counselor identity and career development through career counseling:

• Career counseling is associated with my practice as a counselor specifically how we work with and aid graduate students, international students, and clients from the LGBT+ community in the world of work surrounded by oppression and intersectional forms of discrimination. Career Counseling has the unique opportunity to cross many different disciplines, some that I have collaborated with include sport and education policy, kinesiology, student affairs, and global studies.
• Counselor development is a large part of my work as a counselor educator; therefore, I am curious as to how counselors in training become effective counselors and my role as a counselor educator in this process. The counselor education process directly connects to wellness as counselors are prone to burnout and impairment associated with their inability to maintain wellness. Mindfulness and contemplative practices are therefore embedded in my teaching and my research (i.e. illustrating the connection between practitioner and scientist).