Psychology
Dr. Parker is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor (LPC-S) and a Licensed Marriage and family Therapist (LMFT) in the state of Louisiana. She has previously taught graduate level counseling courses at Southern Arkansas University, and Texas A&M-San Antonio. Dr. Parker began teaching at Texas A&M-Texarkana in the Fall of 2020.
Dr. Parker has extensive clinical experience in family preservation, foster care, at-risk youth, victims of sexual assault and grief counseling. She also has experience in veterans and military family counseling. While teaching at Texas A&M-San Antonio, she developed and served as the program coordinator of the Marriage a Family Therapy with a Military Emphasis Program. While teaching at Southern Arkansas University, Dr. Parker served as the program coordinator for the Clinical and Mental Health Counseling program as well as the coordinator for practicum and internship experiences.
Dr. Parker’s research interests include spirituality and affectional orientation, the use of narratives in grief counseling, narrative inquiry in the counseling field, the therapeutic value of auto-ethnographies, and the use of art in research.
Dr. Parker is actively affiliated with American Counseling Association (ACA), Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES), Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (SAIGE), Arkansas Counseling Association (ArCA), and Arkansas Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ArACES).
