Jane Webber, Ph.D., LPC
I am a Fellow of the American Counseling Association and served as ACA Foundation Chair, North Atlantic Region Chair, and ACA Governing Council member. My expertise is in disaster and trauma counseling; counseling student preparation and supervision; licensure; child, adolescent, and school counseling; sand tray and filial therapies. My research focuses on trauma treatment and training, counselor preparation and supervision, trauma-informed school counseling, mental health in schools, and licensure. I served on the CACREP Advisory Committee for Emergency Preparedness that created the 2009 CACREP Standards in disaster, trauma, and crisis, and I am a founding Board member of the International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling and founding Editor of its new Journal of Resilience and Trauma Counseling. I was Guest Editor of the Traumatology Special Section of the Journal of Counseling and Development (Summer, 2017) and Associate Editor of the NARACES Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision. I serve on the Editorial Board of The Practitioner Scholar, the Journal of the International Trauma Training Institute. I have delivered 220+ presentations and trainings on disaster and trauma counseling, school counseling, licensure, and expressive therapies, the majority co-presented with Dr. J. Barry Mascari.
Credentials
- Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), NJ Disaster Response Crisis Counselor (DRCC),
- National Certified Counselor (NCC)
- NJDOE: Director of Student Personnel Services (School Counseling),
- Student Personnel Services (School Counselor), School Psychologist, Principal/
- Supervisor, Elementary School Teacher, Nursery School Teacher
Courses Taught
- CED 5962 Group Process
- CED 5975 Career Counseling and Development
- CED 5989 Clinical Supervision
- CED 5985, 5986 Internship
- CED 5945 Counseling Children and Adolescents
- CED 7631 Advanced College Student Services and Counseling
- CED 7632 Advanced College Counseling and Student Development
- CED 7910 Professional Seminar
- CED 7957 Trauma Foundations
- CED 7961 Trauma Assessment and Counseling
- CED 7975 Advanced Career Counseling and Development
- CED 7985 Advanced Internship I: Professional
- CED 7986 Advanced Internship II: Teaching
- CED 7989 Advanced Clinical Supervision
Selected Publications
Webber, J., & Mascari, J. B. (Eds.). (2018). Disaster mental health counseling: A guide to preparing and responding (4th ed.). American Counseling Association Foundation.
Webber, J. M., & Smith, C. (2021). Child maltreatment. In B. Jones & B. Durodoye (Eds.). Child and adolescent counseling: An integrated approach. Springer.
Webber, J. M. (2021). I’m an emotional person. Case study. In J. Swank & C. Barrio Minton (Eds.), Critical incidents in counselor education: Teaching, supervision, scholarship, leadership, and advocacy. American Counseling Association.
Webber, J., Kitzinger, R., Runte, J., Smith, C., & Mascari, J. B. (2017). Traumatology trends: A content analysis of three counseling journals 1994–2014. Journal of Counseling & Development, 98, 249–259.
Mascari, J. B., & Webber, J. (2013). CACREP accreditation: A solution to counselor identity and license portability problems. Journal of Counseling & Development, 91(1), 15–25.
Teaching Philosophy
I was inspired early in my career by the existential ideas of Albert Camus and Viktor Frankel and the person-centered work of Carl Rogers. My teaching approach deepened with the trauma work of Babette Rothschild, Bessel Van der Kolk, Michael White, and Eliana Gil. Counseling is walking the journey with others, listening to their silence and their story. My teaching is collaborative and process oriented, inspiring students to find personal meaning in our class as a group. Learning to be a counselor is all about relationships that develop on the journey not at the destination.