You Don't Look Like a Lesbian: A Coautoethnography of Intersectional Identities in Counselor Education

Minoritized Professionals' Experiences in Counselor Education: A Review of Research

“…After eliminating theoretical and conceptual articles, we identified 27 articles eligible for systematic review. Of these articles, four were quantitative investigations using survey methods (Bradley & Holcomb‐McCoy, 2004; Healey & Hays, 2012; Hill et al, 2005; Pollock & Meek, 2016), and all others were qualitative inquiries using methodologies such as phenomenology, narrative inquiry, and autoethnography (e.g., Haskins et al, 2016; Hinojosa & Carney, 2016; Speciale et al, 2015). We reviewed all articles in search of similar adverse experiences reported across stakeholders.…”

“…Adverse experiences were commonly reported as exemplifying different types of microaggressions , which are “brief and commonplace daily verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, insults, invalidations, and indignities, whether they are intentional or unintentional, which are directed toward [marginalized individuals]” (Sue et al, 2007, p. 271). Across studies, participants reported experiencing microaggressions throughout interactions with peers and faculty members (Baker & Moore, 2015; Bryan, 2018; Cartwright et al, 2018; Casado Pérez & Carney, 2018; Haskins et al, 2016; Henfield et al, 2011; Pollock & Meek, 2016; Shillingford et al, 2013; Speciale et al, 2015). These experiences were often presented as overt microaggressions.…”

“…Tokenism is a “process by which members of a non‐dominant group are treated as representatives of their marginalized group” (Speciale et al, 2015, p. 264). Minoritized stakeholders reported tokenization at individual and programmatic levels.…”

How psychotherapists make use of their experiences from being a client: Lessons from a collective autoethnography

“…Autoethnography is a form of qualitative inquiry that provides a structure for the analysis of culturally and theoreticallyrelevant themes grounded in personal experience (Muncey, 2010;Ngunjiri, Hernandez & Chang, 2010). Autoethnographic methods are being increasingly used in psychotherapy research to provide contextualized narrative accounts of theoretically significant episodes of lived experience (Brooks, 2011;Fox, 2014;Meekums, 2008;Rober & Rosenblatt, 2017;Speciale, Gess & Speedlin, 2015) In an ongoing research project directed at understanding the interconnections between professional and personal experiences in the lives of psychotherapists (reference withheld for anonymous review), we conducted interviews with mid-career psychotherapists and reflected upon and discussed with each other how these therapists described and accounted for specific experiences in the format of episodes, as well as more generalized reflections about the theoretical foundations for their work. One aspect of how research participants made links between their professional and personal experiences particularly caught our attention.…”

“…Although relatively few autoethnographic studies of therapy have been published, it already seems clear that this methodology is able to provide a distinctive source of evidence, that both complements and extends findings based on other research approaches. Exemplary autoethographic studies of therapy include accounts of the search for an appropriate therapy (Mckenzie, 2015), vivid first-person narratives that de-familiarise the therapy process (Brooks, 2011;Fox, 2014) and a reflexive critical insider perspective on therapy training (Speciale, Gess & Speedlin, 2015). In addition, engagement with the conduct and procedures of autoethnographic inquiry make it possible to gain new insights into fundamental processes of knowledge construction.…”