Caroline Fernandes

Caroline is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a private practice owner in the state of Georgia. She is an adjunct professor who mentors national and international counseling students and facilitates training and workshops on multicultural sensitivity in counseling and supervision practices. She has served on the Mu Upsilon Alpha-Chi Sigma Iota Chapter at Mercer University as President, Treasurer, Secretary, and Executive Board. She has also served as an Executive Director for the American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (ACISTE), a non-profit organization. Caroline fervently advocates for integrating multicultural spirituality pedagogy into counselor education programs. To reduce global mental health disparities, she focuses on inclusion, diversity, and multiculturally sensitive assessments for marginalized minorities. Her extensive clinical training includes evidence-based trauma treatments, Eastern complementary and alternative therapies, training in psychedelic-assisted therapy, and indigenous healing modalities. Her dissertation delves into the understanding of wounded healers and the intersectionality of psychedelics, spiritual emergence, trauma, and mental health to prevent misdiagnosis. Caroline envisions developing BIPOC-specific holistic treatment curricula for survivors of familial sexual abuse, healing intergenerational trauma, and wellness programs for wounded healers. Caroline is the recipient of the National Board for Certified Counselor (NBCC) doctoral fellow which empowers her to continue serving the underserved, marginalized, Asian immigrant community, and help develop community workshops on harm reduction/prevention of substance/psychedelic abuse. She is a member of the NBCC Examination Sensitivity and Bias Review Board and the Subject Matter Expert Committee.