Teresa Graye, PhD, LPCC, LADC

A critical thinker and instructor utilizing Knowles’ assumptions of Andragogy while setting the stage for multicultural safety and exploration, I am a constructivist instructor using students prior knowledge and experience as scaffolding to transformative learning in students through incorporation of balance and imbalance and a variety of learning methods for best possible outcomes. 

As a dually licensed practitioner (LADC/LPCC) in the field for 20 years, I have been in many roles and varied program types and intensities, which can be a rich resource.  I have been witness to the history of how we (the field) have traditionally treated addictions, moving towards the treatment of co-occurring disorders, and most currently landing on epigenetics and trauma on the brain as causation, through the lens of a practitioner, researcher and educator.  We have come a long way from treatment of addiction as a peer-led program. 

My goals for students at Adler are to have disseminated the most cutting-edge, current information available from which to learn; To challenge them to think critically about what they “know,” where it came from, and if it’s true as a way to both look internally as critical self-reflection, as well as teach it and/or utilize it with their clients; To begin or maintain the process of learning how to balance the life tasks now and in internship as a means of avoiding compassion fatigue and burnout; The underpinnings of these goals are for students to be the best counselors they can be given their education in life, in school, and in practice.