Shane Haberstroh

Shane Haberstroh Ed.D. is a professor of counseling in the Department of Educational Psychology at Northern Arizona University. Prior to his appointment at NAU, he served as an associate professor, assistant department chair, founding codirector of the Academy for Crisis and Trauma Counseling, and doctoral program chair in counselor education and supervision at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Haberstroh completed two 3-year terms on the American Counseling Association’s Governing Council and chaired the 2018-2019 national ACA taskforce on licensure portability. He served on the 2020 national interstate compact advisory board for counselor licensure that developed the national interstate compact for professional counselors. In the past 5 years, Dr. Haberstroh successfully secured over 1.4 million dollars in external funding as a principal investigator or co-principal investigator leading community-based training and intervention programs. He currently serves on the Executive Committee, teaches within, and directs program evaluation activities for a NIDA funded interprofessional doctoral training program in culturally centered addiction research at NAU. His research focuses on technology in counseling, creativity and relational development in counseling, Developmental Relational Counseling, and the losses and recovery processes related to addiction, crises, and traumatic events. Dr. Haberstroh has been the Associate Editor for the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health since 2011, and he has published journal articles and book chapters in numerous peer reviewed counseling journals and counseling texts. He is the co-editor of Child and Adolescent Counseling Case Studies: Developmental, Systemic, Multicultural, and Relational Contexts, and the co-editor an ACA text entitled Introduction to Crisis and Trauma Counseling. He is the recipient of several awards, including the AARC Core Outstanding Outcome Research Award, the American Counseling Association Presidential Award, and research and professional writing awards from the Association for Creativity in Counseling and the Texas Counseling Association. He was a delegate on the ACA 20/20- A Vision for the Future of Counseling from 2005 to 2013 and served as the Association for Creativity in Counseling’s representative to the ACA Governing Council from 2013-2019. Dr. Haberstroh participated in efforts to support the Newtown, Connecticut community in the second year following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings and worked with colleagues at the University of Texas at San Antonio to establish counseling services for the communities affected by the Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church mass shooting. Dr. Haberstroh currently serves as a Disaster Mental Health Worker through the American Red Cross, Northern Arizona Chapter. Prior to working as a faculty member, Dr. Haberstroh worked for six years at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Department of Neuropsychiatry, working in outpatient settings and within a maximum-security psychiatric prison hospital. While employed at the Medical School at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, he also directed outpatient addiction services, state mandated alcohol and DUI education programs, and addiction and mental health programs contracted with the United States Probation Northern District of Texas and Bureau of Prisons agencies. Before attending graduate school, he worked in adult and adolescent outpatient and residential addiction treatment for four years in St Petersburg, Florida at Operation PAR and Professional Comprehensive Addiction Services.