Kelsey Sarasqueta-Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Counselling Psychology | Counselling Psychology: School + Youth
Vancouver
“I encourage students to experience their own becoming, both personally and professionally. When students contact teaching material in holistic ways, a meaningful learning experience emerges.”
OVERVIEW
Dr. Sarasqueta-Allen is a counselor educator whose work bridges clinical practice, teaching, and public policy. Her clinical experience includes supporting queer adolescents, university students, couples, and families in both rural and urban settings. She holds licensure as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and earned her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Counseling.
At Adler University in Vancouver, Dr. Sarasqueta-Allen teaches across the counselling psychology curriculum, including assessment, theories, professional development, couples and family therapy, and counselling skills. She also supports student scholarship as a thesis supervisor and serves as the core faculty member of the Research Ethics Board.
Her research and advocacy focus on abortion rights, community organizing, psychometrics, and engagement with public policy. She has held leadership roles in legislative and policy work at regional, state, and national levels within the counselling profession and was recognized with the 2020 Government Relations Award by the Association for Adult Development and Aging, a division of the American Counseling Association.
MEMBERSHIPS + ASSOCIATIONS
- Editorial Board Member – Journal of Humanistic Counseling
- Editorial Board Member – Journal of Faith Integration in Counseling
- Member – Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
- Member – Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
PRESENTATIONS + PUBLICATIONS
Presentations
Reconceptualizing Assessment Curriculum: Innovative and Experiential Teaching Practices
Building Culturally Responsive Career Counseling Curriculum: Storytelling in Media
Self-Efficacy and Public Policy Engagement Scale: Assessment Creation
Seeds to Blooms: Cultivating Social Justice and Advocacy Strategies in Counselor Education to Foster Macrosystemic Equity
Understanding the Embodiment of Micro-Skills in Counselors in Training (CITs)
Embodied Experiences: Embodied-Based Experiences in Experiential Learning of Microskills
Counseling Skills Development Course (Guest Lecture)
Advanced Issues in Mental Health Counseling (Guest Lecture)
Introduction to Human Sexuality (Guest Lecture)
Foundations of Clinical Mental Health and Counseling (Guest Lecture)
Publications
Advocacy anxiety: Dismantling fear and resistance and engaging graduate students in public policy
LEADERSHIP + ENGAGEMENT
- 2024 – Present: Core Faculty Member, Review Ethics Board, Adler University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 2018 – 2023: CORE Leader, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest
- 2020 – 2021: Public Policy and Legislation Chair, Association for Adult Development and Aging, USA (national)
- 2018 – 2021: Public Policy and Legislation Chair, Idaho Mental Health Counselors Association, Idaho, USA
- 2019 – 2020: Emerging Leader, Idaho Counseling Association, Idaho, USA
- 2018 – 2019: Emerging Leader, American College Counseling Association, USA (national)