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Phoenix E. Rosewood, PhD, is a 2026 graduate of the PhD program in Counselor Education & Supervision, Antioch University, Seattle.
Stephanie Thorson-Olesen, PhD, Committee Chair
Cathy Lounsbury, EdD, Committee Member
Cecily Moore, PhD, Committee Member
Keywords
microaggression, rupture and repair, qualitative, counselor education
Document Type
Dissertation
Publication Date
2026
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to understand and explore the phenomenon of the rupture, reckoning, and when possible, the repair process with racial, ethnic, and cultural (REC) microaggressions in counselor education. Participants (n = 14) included counselor educators who had either enacted a REC microaggression and attempted repair, or had been the recipient of an REC rupture and a meaningful attempt at repair. This study utilized a thematic analysis as a methodological framework in interpreting the data with the perspective of borderlands theory, critical embodied phenomenology, relational cultural theory and relational neuroscience analytical frameworks to account for and explain the layers of identity and blueprints for reconnection. Results illustrated nine themes which emerged as part of data analysis: (a) interpersonal borderlands: nepantla, (b) disconnection and rupture, (c) hybrid identity, intersectionality, and relational safety, (d) relational liminality: reckoning and repair, (e) to dwell well: reconnection and relational endurance, (f) fracture, power over and cultural displacement, (g) transformation of sedimentation: integration and neuroplasticity, (h) intrarelational, interrelational, and systemic shifts: resistance through identity formation, and (i) doubling: The experiencing and the witnessing of the experiencing. Integration of the data and recommendations for the five pillars of counselor education are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Rosewood, P. E. (2026). Interpersonal reckoning: The liminal space between rupture and repair in counselor education. https://aura.antioch.edu/etds/1252
Included in
Counselor Education Commons, Educational Leadership Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, Women's Studies Commons
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Phoenix E. Rosewood, PhD, 2026
ORC iD 0009-0001-6223-0405
Dr. Phoenix Eliza Rosewood is a counselor educator, licensed mental health counselor, supervisor, and researcher with over a decade of experience in clinical practice, teaching, and program leadership. Their work focuses on social and gender justice, with a deep commitment to supporting queer and trans communities through affirming, trauma-informed care. Phoenix brings a relational and power-conscious perspective to their scholarship, teaching, and supervision. They have directed clinical mental health counseling programs, mentored graduate students, and conducted mixed methods and qualitative research centered on the experiences of faculty with targeted identities in counselor education, exploring how they negotiate wellness, effectiveness, and professional excellence. In addition to their academic work, Phoenix maintains a private practice and consults on building more just, inclusive, and accountable clinical and educational spaces. Across all areas of their work, they are committed to cultivating relational endurance and fostering practices that support healing, equity, and meaningful change.
Phoenix has contributed to published works including “Understanding Counselor Burnout from an Ecological Systems Perspective” and “Challenges and Strategies for Maintaining Sobriety in Rural Areas: A Consensual Qualitative Analysis.” They served as first author on “Attuning to Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Counseling Students’ Needs” and have a manuscript under review entitled “Delphi study of counselor educators negotiating identity, bias, and inequities”. Phoenix contributed a chapter on supporting trans women and femmes in the forthcoming book “Gender, Trauma-Informed Care and Intersectionality: Theory and Critical Approaches to Justice-Oriented Mental Health.” Phoenix actively participates in and presents at national and regional conferences, such as WACES, NARACES, and ACES, and serves on the editorial boards of two peer-reviewed counselor education journals.
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS
ACCEPTED PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Rosewood, P . (2026, October, pending acceptance). Staying in the Room Is the Work: Rupture, Repair, Relational Endurance and Multicultural Reckoning. Roundtable Discussion Proposal for WACES Reno, NV
Rosewood, P . (2025, October). Navigating Counselor Education on the Margins: Intersectional Insights from a Delphi Study. Poster Presentation forthcoming at ACES in Philadelphia, PA
Belknap, L., Thorson-Olesen, S. Rosewood, P ., & Velidow, E., (2025, October). Beyond Self-Care: Examining Counselor Burnout Through Ecological Systems Theory. Poster Presentation forthcoming at ACES Philadelphia, PA
Thorson-Olesen, S., Rosewood, P ., Kim, I., Velidow, E., Cornell, K., Subhan, S., (2024, September). From Overwhelm to Wellbeing: Navigating Counselor Burnout Through Counselor Education & Supervision. Poster presentation at NARACES Atlantic City, NJ
Rosewood, P . (submission for WACES 2024). Not all babies come from women: How CE’s can prepare students and supervisees working with TNG folks.6
Rosewood, P . & Nelei, G. (submission for ACES webinar series 2024). Trans, Nonbinary & Gender Expansive Student Experiences in Counselor Education Programs: Building Learning Communities of Responsive Andragogy & Mentorship.
Rosewood, P, & Schmidt, M.K. (submission for ACES 2015). “Making the Implicit, Explicit: Focusing as a Creative and Culturally Responsive Approach in Supervision.
Horton, M., & Rosewood, P . (submission for ACES 2015). “Education and Awareness of Training Counselors to Work with Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Rosewood, P . (in progress). Trans women and nonbinary femmes: Trauma and gender identity. In S. Merrilees & S. Pickett (Eds.), Gender, Trauma-Informed Care, and Intersectionality: Theory and Critical Approaches to Justice-Oriented Mental Health [Unpublished textbook]
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Rosewood, P . (2026, February). The Pedagogy Podcast. Guest on episode 4.
https://www.youtube.com/@PedagogyPodcast