Curriculum Vitae: Mahsa Maghsoudi, Ph.D., NCC, LPC

Doctor of Philosophy, Counselor Education and Supervision

• University of Texas at San Antonio (CACREP accredited)
• Dissertation: Healing the scars: A phenomenology study of clinical supervisors’ lived-experiences working with counselors of female intimate partner violence survivors in Texas
• August 2017- May 2020

Master of Science, Mental Health Counseling

• University of North Texas (CACREP accredited)
• May 2017

Bachelor of Arts, Counseling and Guidance

• Allameh Tabatabaei University
• July 2009

English

Farsi (Persian)

National Board for Certified Counselors

• National Certified Counselor, # 756744

Licensed Professional Counselor Intern

• Supervised by Michael Moyer, Ph.D., LPC-S
• License Number 80829

Associate Professor and Clinical Director, Wichita State

• Wichita, Kansas - August 2020 - Present

LPC-Intern Counselor, The Sarabia Family Counseling Center

• San Antonio, Texas - January 2019-July 2020

• Provided counseling services (Individual, Couple, Family, Children, adolescents, Older Adults; Personality Disorders, Eating Disorders, Grief and loss, Domestic Violence, Depression, Anxiety, Non-Suicidal Self- Injury, Career)
• Conducted initial intake interviews

LPC-Intern Counselor, Our Lady of the Lake University

• Counseling Center, San Antonio, Texas - October 2018-July 2020
  

• Provided individual counseling services (Individual, Adults; Personality Disorders, Eating Disorders, Grief and loss, Domestic Violence, Depression, Anxiety, Non-Suicidal Self- Injury, Career)
• Conducted initial intake interviews

Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Stacy Speedlin

• The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas - August 2017-May 2020
  • Paid position
  • CACREP accredited graduate program
  • Assisted with executive management of the Sarabia Family Counseling Center
  • Recruited clients from the community
  • Facilitated communication and partnership with community agencies
  • Managed and assigned the weekly schedule of the clinic staff, supervisors, and counselors-in-training
  • Provided supervision and live-observation to master level students
  • Assisted with grant-writing activities for the clinic

Doctoral Student Leader of Master’s Level Professional Development Group

• August 2018-December 2018

Doctoral Student Leader of Master’s Level Professional Development Group

January 2018-May 2018

Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Michael Moyer

• The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas - August 2017-September 2018
  • Paid position
  • CACREP accredited graduate program
  • Assisted with literature review in the areas of suicidality, code of ethics, systems of care, and graduate student mental health

Child and Family Resource Clinic

• The University of North Texas, Denton, Texas - January 2016-May 2017
  

• Provided individual counseling services (Individual, Couple, Family, Children, adolescents, Older Adults; Grief and loss, Domestic Violence, Depression, Anxiety, Career)
• Conducted initial intake interviews

Research Assistant, Dr. Casey Barrio

• The University of North Texas, Denton, Texas - January 2015-May 2015
  

• Paid position
• Identified all CACREP-accredited doctoral programs in counselor education and supervision.
• Examined the required and optional courses for their doctoral students.
• Contacted program coordinators to set up follow-up interviews about their teaching preparation methods.

Intake Counselor in Training

• Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran - August 2008-January 2009
  

• Conducted intake interviews and mental health assessments and interpreting results of those assessments

University and National Awards

• 2019 Educational Endowment Fund. Texas Counseling Association- $500.
• 2019 Chi Sigma Iota (Sigma Alpha Chi Chapter) Outstanding Research Award
• 2019 Chi Sigma Iota (Sigma Alpha Chi Chapter) Outstanding Doctoral Student

Refereed Publications

Prasath, P., Gregory, J., Maghsoudi, M., Speedlin, S. Jones, B. (under review). Chapter 6: Theoretical approaches/modalities. In Child and adolescent counseling: An integrated approach (1st ed.). Springer.

Robinson, J., Moyer, M., & Maghsoudi, M. Martinez-Smit, C. (2020). Ethical ambiguity within the counseling field: Ethical practices of Texas Counselors. Journal of Professional Counseling: Practice, Theory, & Research.

Maghsoudi, M. (2019). Five strategies to reduce counselor stigma toward female intimate partner violence survivors. Journal of Professional Counseling: Practice, Theory, & Research

Manuscripts under review

Prasath, P., Gregory, J., Maghsoudi, M., Speedlin, S. Jones, B. Chapter 6: Theoretical approaches/modalities. In Child and adolescent counseling: An integrated approach. Springer.

Manuscripts in progress

*Li, J., Maghsoudi, M. (in progress). Examining professional leadership development among Asian international female counseling students.

* Maghsoudi, M. (in progress). Clinical supervisors’ lived-experiences working with counselors of female intimate partner violence survivors in Texas.

* Maghsoudi, M., Allen, J. (in progress). Online classroom: Lived-experiences of firs-semester counseling students with their instructors in Kansas.

*Moyer, M., Crews, C., & Maghsoudi, M. (in progress). Adolescents partaking in risk-taking behaviors: When and how to break confidentiality. Unpublished raw data.

*Moyer, M., & Maghsoudi, M. (in progress). Post-graduation preparation for counselors-in-training. Unpublished raw data.

Maghsoudi, M., Hunt, D., & Robertson, D. (in progress). Moral panic as a tool of oppression. Manuscript in preparation.

Novoa, S., Garcia, J., & Maghsoudi, M. (in progress). Using Photovoice to Examine Experiences of First Semester Doctoral Students in CES Programs.

(*= data-based)

Non-Refereed Publications

Maghsoudi, M. (2016). International Counseling Students. Juncture Newsletter for Texas Association of Counselor Education and Supervision, 5-6.

*Maghsoudi. M. (2009). Study of relationship between thrill seeking and anxiety in female bachelor of science students in statistics at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. ATU Press.

Published Translations (English to Persian)

Maghsoudi, M. (2012). The Male Brain (Brizendine, L.). Tehran: Shelak.

Maghsoudi, M. (2011). What Is Brilliant About Positive Psychology (Style, C.). Tehran: Shelak.

Scholarly Presentations

National – Refereed Contributions

Romero, D. E., Potts, C. A., Jackson, A., Brown, T., Schlosz, D. J., & Maghsoudi, M. (2019, Oct). Avoidance and silence in counselor education and supervision. Education content session to be presented at the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Biannual conference, Seattle, WA.

(*= data-based)

Regional – Refereed Contributions

Maghsoudi, M. (2018, October). Behind the scars: Five strategies to reduce counselor stigma toward female intimate partner violence survivors. Presentation at the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC

Novoa, S., Garcia, J., Maghsoudi, M, & Trepal, H. (2018, October). The secret life of doctoral students: A photovoice study. Presentation at the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC

State – Refereed Contributions

Moyer, M., Novoa, S., Garcia, J., & Maghsoudi, M. (2018, March). The secret life of doctoral students: A photovoice study. Presentation at the Texas Association of Counselor Education and Supervision, Austin, Texas.

Non-Refereed Contributions

Maghsoudi, M. (2018, November). Counselors and Compassion Fatigue. The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

Speedlin, S., & Maghsoudi, M. (2019). Bexar County Domestic Violence Therapeutic Program. Bexar County Commissioners Court - $250,000. (Funded).

Speedlin, S., & Maghsoudi, M. (2019). Bexar County Domestic Violence Therapeutic Program. West Care Foundation - $250,000. (Under Review).

Speedlin, S., & Maghsoudi, M. (2019). Bexar County Domestic Violence Therapeutic Program. Harvey Najim Foundation - $250,000. (Under Review).

Maghsoudi, M. (2019). Distinguished Research Fellowship (DRF) for Advanced Ph.D. Students. Graduate School at the University of Texas at San Antonio- $28,000. (submitted).

Maghsoudi, M. (2019). Healing the scars: A phenomenology study of clinical supervisors’ live-experiences working with counselors of female intimate partner violence survivors. The Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (AARC)- $500. (submitted).

Maghsoudi, M. (2019). Enhancing Counselor Competency in Working with Female Intimate Partner Violence Through Clinical Supervision. The Educational Endowment Fund (EEF) Grant- $500. (submitted).

Gregory, J., & Maghsoudi, M. (2019). Bridging the gap: Let’s talk about White Privilege. The American Counseling Association Foundation Grant- $500. (submitted).

Courses:

Wichita State University

Fall 2020

• CESP 824 - Techniques of Counseling
• CESP 949 - School Counseling Internship
  
• CESP 825 - Group Counseling and Group Work
  

Pre-Session 2021

• CLES 750AM - Enneagram Personality in Counseling
  

Courses Co-Taught:

University of Texas at San Antonio

COU 5213 - Advanced Counseling Skills

• Doctoral Level Course
• Facilitated in-class discussions and presentations
• Set up the Blackboard Learn content
• Graded assignments
• Mentored students in writing articles for publication

COU 6973* - Creative Application of RCT/DRC into Counseling

• Facilitated in-class discussions and presentations
• Set up the Blackboard Learn content

COU 6973* - Enneagram/Personality in Counseling

• Facilitated in-class discussions and presentations
• Set up the Blackboard Learn content
• Co-created syllabus
• Taught personality types

COU 5713 - Clinical Mental Health Counseling Internship I

• Graded counselors-in-training tape-scripts
• Facilitated in-class discussions and presentations

COU 5683 - Practicum in Counseling

• Taught creative interventions
• Graded counselors-in-training tape-scripts
• Facilitated in-class discussions and presentations

COU 5283* - Counseling in Multicultural Settings

• Created a treatment planning module on Blackboard
• Taught minority clients in counseling
• Graded assignments
• Facilitated in-class discussions and presentations
• Facilitated Blackboard discussions

COU 5113* - Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling

• Assisted with syllabus creation
• Taught different chapters of the text book
• Graded assignments
• Facilitated in-class discussions
• Facilitated Blackboard discussions

COU 5213 Counseling Theories

• Assisted with syllabus creation
• Graded assignments

COU 5113* - Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Counseling

• Assisted with syllabus creation
• Taught different chapters of the text book
• Graded assignments
• Facilitated in-class discussions
• Facilitated Blackboard discussions

COU 5233* - Group Theory and Process

• Taught different chapters of the text book
• Facilitated in-class discussions and activities
• Facilitated Blackboard discussions

COU 6523 - Couples and Family Counseling

• Taught several chapters of the text book
• Facilitated in-class discussions

COU 5213 - Counseling Theories

• Assisted with syllabus creation
• Taught different chapters of the text book
• Graded assignments
• Facilitated in-class discussions

(*= hybrid classes)

University of North Texas

COU 3620 - Counseling Principles II

• Taught several chapters of the text book
• Facilitated in-class discussions

Courses Guest-Lectured:

University of North Texas

• COU 3630 - Survey of Career Development and Career Guidance (Undergraduate)
• COU 5290 - Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in CMHC (Graduate)
  — Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Program (G*STEP) Internship II
• COU 5300 - Systems, Leadership, Program Development in CMHC (Graduate)
  — Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Program (G*STEP) Internship I

Allameh Tabatabaei University

COU 1263 - Social Psychology (Undergraduate)

• Taught Transactional Analysis Theory
• Facilitated in-class discussions

Ethical Considerations in Clinical Mental Health

Enneagram/Personality in Counseling

PITCH Program Evaluation (June 2018-August 2018)

• Reviewed organizational practices
• Assisted in conducting focus group and interviewed stakeholders
• Collected assessment data
• Transcribed focus group recording
• Conducted qualitative data analysis for themes
• Presented the results to stakeholders

The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) Initial Reader/Consultant (September 2018- present)

• Reviewed initial institution accreditation applications for completeness and accuracy
• Provided feedback on institutional readiness for accreditation process

University of Texas at San Antonio

• Doctoral Student Practicum Supervisor (June 2018-Present)
• Integrative Behavioral Health Supervisor (January 2018-August 2018)
• [The Program for the Integrated Training for Counselors in Behavioral Healthcare (PITCH), Under the HRSA Behavioral Health Workforce and Education grant]

American Counseling Association, Member January 2012 - Present

• Professional Standards Committee, Student Representative (July 2019- Present)

Texas Counseling Association (TCA), Member October 2017- October 2020

• Ethics Committee, Member (July 2019- October 2020)
• Program Reviewer, The 63rd Annual Professional Growth Conference (June 2019)

Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES), Member May 2018- October 2020

• SACES Graduate Student Committee, Member (February 2018- October 2020)
• Journal Subcommittee, Member (February 2019- October 2020)
• Counselor Educator Interviews Subcommittee, Member (February 2019- October 2020)

Assistant Volunteer Editor, Journal of Creativity in Counseling (January 2019- May 2020)

Sigma Alpha Chi Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota (CSI), Member January 2018- May 2020

• Advocacy Committee, Chair (August 2018- May 2020)

Rho Kappa Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota (CSI), Member 2013- May 2017

• Professional Development Committee, Co-Chair (August 2016- May 2017)
• Celebration of Excellence Committee, Co-Chair (August 2016- May 2017)

University of North Texas

• Graduate Student Council (2013-2014)
• Learning Center, Member (January 2013- May 2017)
• Volunteer Tutor (January 2013- May 2017)
• Student Ambassador, Office of Outreach (January 2016- May 2016)
• Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Program (G*STEP), 2013
• International Counseling Students Association, Member (January 2012- May 2017)

Success & Innovation Institution, Member (2009- Present)

Touba Home of Prosperity Institution, Member (2009- Present)

Tolou Research Centre of Allameh Tabatabaei University, Member (2006 - 2009)

University of Texas at San Antonio

• MMPI-2 Training (October 2018)
• Building Your Craft: Teaching Philosophy and Style (September 2017)

Biofeedback Society of Texas

• Use of Biofeedback and Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Addictions (Fall 2017)

University of North Texas

• Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Program (G*STEP) Certified (2013)

Iranian Social- Psychology Association

• New Concepts of Social-Clinical Psychology Training Certified, 16 Hours training by Professor Andre Sirota (2009)
• Couple and Family Therapy Training Workshop Certified, 8 Hours training by Doctor Mahdiyeh Rezaei (2009)
• Applied Psychoanalysis in Social Health Training Workshop Certified, 16 Hours training by Professor Monique Gibeault (2008)