Karen Mackie has been teaching counseling courses in the Warner School since 1989 and was appointed the Outreach Coordinator for Counseling for the Warner Center for Professional Development and Education Reform in 2001. Currently she is a member of the clinical faculty in counselor education. She is a nationally certified counselor (NCC), a licensed mental health counselor, and a permanently certified school counselor in New York State. She has been a practicing professional counselor in mental health, addiction, private practice, college, and public school settings since 1983.
Mackie’s teaching focuses on counseling theory and practice, feminist and cultural perspectives in counseling, family and interpersonal systems counseling, counseling in community mental health settings, and counseling in educational settings.
Her scholarship interests include the impact of globalization, multinational identity, and cultural plurality on counseling theory and practice; creativity and spirituality in the counselor education process and post-modern approaches to family systems therapy. In her role as Outreach Coordinator she is interested in the design and implementation of professional development activities which allow therapeutic professionals to transform and re-situate their practices. She has presented her work nationally and internationally at numerous professional conferences in the counseling field. Current research explores the nature of professionalism for counselors and therapists in relation to the preservation of professional service ideals about practice within challenging employment contexts. Mackie also studies the development of critical understandings about the ways in which social class intersects with other cultural variables in shaping therapist and client narratives and experiences of life transition.
She serves on the editorial board of the Journal for the Professional Counselor and has recently published work in the book Critical Incidents in Child Counseling (ACA 2006).
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