Rhemma Payne

<p>Dr. Rhemma Payne has a doctorate in counsellor education and supervision and currently resides in Bowling Green, Kentucky where she is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Western Kentucky University. Dr. Payne is a licensed mental health counsellor (LMHC) with over twelve years of clinical experience in various settings including in-home intensive therapy, inpatient psychiatric hospital (child, adult, adolescent, geriatric acute units and residential treatment units), partial hospitalisation programs, intensive outpatient program (IOP), solution-focused college counselling setting, and community mental health. She has worked with various age groups including children, adolescents, adults, and the geriatric population using various modalities like family, individual, and group counselling. In her clinical private practice, Dr. Payne specialises in working with individuals with anxiety, life strain/adjustments, and trauma. She uses cognitive-behavioural and relational-cultural theoretical orientations integrated with somatic and body-brain-based interventions. Dr. Payne is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), an approved clinical supervisor (ACS), a board-certified telemental health (BC-TMH) provider, and a 2020 National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) doctoral-level minority fellowship scholar. Dr. Payne enjoys participating in service work related to counselling examinations and credentialing, and currently serves as a Subject Matter Expert for the NBCC Foundation in collaboration with the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE). Dr. Payne's research interests include cultural responsivity; ethics and advocacy in clinical practice, research, and teaching; critical qualitative onto-epistemologies (i.e., storytelling); internalised stereotypes of identity and (un)wellness; and benefits/burden of mentorship for Black women in higher education settings.</p>