Wisdom and Wellness: American Counseling Association

Dr. Mariaimeé González is a counselor educator, licensed professional counselor, clinical supervisor, human rights advocate, Indigenous wellness scholar, and liberatory steward. Born in Puerto Rico and of Taíno ancestry, she centers cultural continuity, relational accountability, collective healing, and liberation. She is Director of the Center for Counseling & Psychological Services at Washington University in St. Louis and earned her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. With nearly two decades of experience in counseling, higher education, leadership, scholarship, and mentorship, her work examines Indigenous mental wellness, Latine liberation and wellness, immigration justice, global mental health, and culturally responsive teaching and research. Grounded in Liberation Psychology and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Dr. González advances community-defined wellness, cultural knowledge, and self-determination. She co-funded a grant to support Indigenous mental health programs in the Pacific Northwest and received the 2024 Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Service Award for her work with Indigenous communities.
Dr. Rachael Fuller is a descendant of the Niitsitapi, Blackfeet people, and carries her family’s heritage and story throughout her work. She is an Assistant Professor of Counseling and Clinical Director at George Fox University. She earned her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Antioch University Seattle and her MA in Counseling from Multnomah University. Her professional experience includes clinical practice, crisis response, and counselor education, with expertise in crisis intervention, suicide assessment, and identity development. Grounded in Indigeneity, cultural reconnection, lateral care, social justice, and liberation, her scholarship examines identity development within historical and contemporary systems of colonization and cultural disruption. Her work emphasizes cultural knowledge, relationality, community, and lived experience as essential dimensions of wellness. Dr. Fuller collaborates with tribal communities in the Pacific Northwest to advance culturally responsive mental health resources and community-identified priorities. She serves on the American Counseling Association Board of Washington State and received WACES research grants in 2025 and 2026.