Faculty and Student Achievements

In April 2022, the Counseling Program started a page for faculty and student achievements. Moving forward, any professor or student who achieves something extraordinary can be highlighted for their accomplishment here. We look forward to this list growing in the coming years!

 

Faculty Achievements

Dr. Foster, Kristie Serrano, and Sarah Ilgenfritz Parks were accepted to present at the 2023 Florida Counseling Association in September. Their presentation is titled Building Resilience Using a Synthesized, Nonlinear Model of Grief.

Dr. Dupre presented at the 2022 Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision conference in Baltimore, MD. The title of her presentation is Fighting Endangerment: Race, Gender, and Power’s Affect on Female Faculty Retention.

In April of 2022, Dr. Foster published an article with three counseling students titled Conceptualizing Traumatic Loss During and After COVID-19 in the Journal of Counseling Practice, the journal for the Ohio Counseling Association. Click here to view the article.

In 2019, Dr. Dupre earned the credential Registered Play Therapist with a Supervisor endorsement (RPT-S) through the Association of Play Therapy.

 

 

Student Achievements

Kristie Serrano was accepted to present at the 2023 Florida Counseling Association in September. Her presentation is titled Treating Chronic Pelvic Pain and PTSD with Physical Therapy and EMDR. Sarah Ilgenfritz Parks and Dr. Foster will serve as co-presenters.

 

Sarah Ilgenfritz Parks was accepted to present a poster board presentation at the 2023 Florida Counseling Association in September. Her poster board presentation is titled Helping Midlife Women Grieve Lost Opportunities Using Gestalt Therapy. Kristie Serrano and Dr. Foster will serve as co-presenters.

 

In September of 2022, Brooke Gaspard was announced as the Louisiana Association of Counseling Graduate Students President-Elect for the 2023-2024 year. Congratulations on your impressive appointment!

 

The ULM Counseling Fall 2021 Cohort officially comprises over 75% of the newly elected 2023-2024 LACGS Executive Board! The following ULM Counseling Students will serve for the 2023-2024 term:

Secretary: Sarah Meche

Public Relations Coordinator: Ashlyn Dupree

North Louisiana Regional Representative: Emily Ruth

Central Louisiana Regional Representative: Rechelle Rawls

South Louisiana Regional Representative: Devin Grantham

Greater Baton Rouge Louisiana Regional Representative: Kristi Zimmerman

In July of 2022, Loraine Hill published her manuscript titled Religiosity and psychological health: Is there a correlation? in the SN Social Sciences journal, see the reference below. Congratulations on your success, Loraine! 

Hill, T. L. (2022) Religiosity and psychological health: Is there a correlation? SN Social Sciences, 2 (138). doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00435-3

In April of 2022, Lisa Marie Smith, Lyndsay Mathews, and Kayla Gros published an article with Dr. Foster titled Conceptualizing Traumatic Loss During and After COVID-19 in the Journal of Counseling Practice. Click here to view the article.

On March 31, 2022, Rebecca Landry and Joe Roberts presented on the topics of anxiety, depression, imposter syndrome, and ways to cope as a graduate student to a class of 30 Speech/Language Pathology students. Congratulations on a job well done!!