COUNSELOR DEVELOPMENT · RELATIONSHIPS · SYSTEMS
How counselors
grow, relate,
and lead.
My research explores how counselors develop within the relationships and systems around them. I am interested in how we understand ourselves as clinicians, supervisors, educators, and leaders, and how that understanding shapes the way we respond to others.
I’m Charisse Tay Mitchell, LPC, a counselor, Clinical Executive Director at All Saints Recovery, and doctoral student at Colorado Christian University.
My clinical work informs the questions I bring to research, teaching, and supervision. Across these roles, I continue to consider what helps counselors become more reflective, intentional, and present in their work.
SCHOLARSHIP, PRACTICE & SERVICE
Supporting counselors
as they grow.
I understand professional growth as a process that involves knowledge, self-awareness, and relationship. My work across research, teaching, supervision, counseling, leadership, and service reflects this understanding. In each setting, I am interested in how we become more aware of ourselves and more intentional in how we connect with others.
The transition to leadership
My dissertation explores counselors’ transition into clinical managerial leadership using classic grounded theory.
Explore this work ↗Growing through supervision
My philosophy of supervision centers relationship, reflection, and helping counselors develop a clinical voice that feels like their own.
Explore this work ↗Learning through connection
Teaching experience at Dallas Theological Seminary, Columbia University, NYU, and Raffles Girls’ Secondary School.
Explore this work ↗Meeting people with love
Trauma-informed counseling with adults, couples, and families, grounded in clinical training and relational understanding.
Explore this work ↗Leading through connection
Clinical leadership at All Saints Recovery and earlier at The Men of Nehemiah, supporting clinicians and the systems around them.
Explore this work ↗Giving forward
Professional advocacy, journal reviewing, nonprofit leadership, and community involvement.
Explore this work ↗MY WORK AT ALL SAINTS RECOVERY
Leading with love.
Making room for hope.
I serve as Clinical Executive Director at All Saints Recovery, a Christ-centered treatment program in Plano, Texas, supporting people navigating substance use and mental health challenges.
At All Saints, I attend to the development of clinicians alongside the quality and continuity of treatment. This includes consultation, training, trauma-informed programming, and the everyday systems that support treatment. I see leadership as a responsibility to remain attentive to both the people receiving treatment and the clinicians supporting them.
This work is central to how I understand myself as a counselor and leader. It continues to shape my questions about counselor development, the transition into leadership, and the relationships through which we learn.
PRESIDENT & FOUNDER · GRACE GIVING GLOBALLY
Making space
for connection.
I founded Grace Giving Globally in 2021. Our nonprofit supports building projects for charitable and religious organizations, helping create the physical spaces where communities gather, grow, and worship.
My work includes annual budgeting, donor relationships, marketing, and fundraising. Through storytelling and personal engagement, I help connect people with opportunities to support this work. For me, this is another way of putting love into practice.
SHARING THE WORK
The hidden work
of gatekeeping.
At RMACES, I presented on the emotional toll and payoff of gatekeeping in counselor education with Alicia Kientz, Heather Martinez, and Teri Odle.
Explore my research & presentations ↗RECENT WORK & SERVICE
The hidden work of gatekeeping
Emotional toll and payoff in counselor education, presented with Alicia Kientz, Heather Martinez, and Teri Odle.
Readiness for spiritual integration
Measuring graduate counseling students’ readiness using the RSIPAS, with Laura McAlister, Faith Smith, and Nicole Weber.
Graduate student leadership & advocacy
Leadership and Advocacy Chair of the SACES Graduate Student Committee.
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
Let’s talk
supervision.
I started Unsupervised because I wanted to understand how other supervisors support counselors’ development. Through conversations about counseling, supervision, and faith, I explore what we are learning about the relationships and responsibilities of this work.
Discover Unsupervised ↗LET’S THINK TOGETHER
Let’s keep the conversation going.
If you are exploring a related question or would like to consider working together, I would be glad to connect.
Start a conversation ↗