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Brett D. Wilkinson, Ph.D., LMHC

Brett D. Wilkinson, Ph.D., LMHC

Brett Wilkinson is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Counseling and Graduate Education at Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW), where he teaches in the counselor education program. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, the flagship journal of the Association for Humanistic Counseling (AHC). He is also the founding director of the PFW Institute for Counseling Research, which designs clinical practice and training studies in counseling and psychotherapy. He is co-author of Therapeutic Change with Difficult Clients: Precursors and Techniques in the CHANGES Model (2025; APA Books), and provides seminar trainings on the CHANGES Model, existential-phenomenological methods, reflective supervision, and embodied mindfulness to community agencies, school systems, and university programs.

Brett Wilkinson
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  • EDU 50300 - Counseling Theories & Techniques I
  • EDU 50400 - Counseling Theories & Techniques II
  • EDU 50500 - Individual Appraisal: Principles & Procedures
  • EDU 56700 - Introduction to Marriage & Family Therapy
  • EDU 57500 – Multicultural Counseling
  • EDU 58000 - Child & Adolescent Counseling
  • EDU 59000 - Research in Counseling & Guidance
  • EDU 52400 - Counseling Practicum
  • EDU 52500 - Advanced Counseling Practicum

  • Wilkinson, B. D. & Brown, A. M. (in press). Embodiment within the dimensional ontology of Logotherapy. The Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
  • Wilkinson, B. D. (in press). Humanism in the age of hyperreality: A speculative critique of AI therapybots and the neoliberal commodification of human beings. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling.
  • Rodriguez, M. & Wilkinson, B. D. (2026). Teaching the body-as-lived: Integrating embodied self-awareness into counselor education through phenomenology and practice. Counselor Education & Supervision, 65(1), 44-54. https://doi.org/10.1002/ceas.70017
  • Wilkinson, B. D., Johnson, L. D., Brown, A. M., Sunderland, W. A., & Strelec, M. N. (2025). Four school of humanism in The Journal of Humanistic Counseling: A qualitative synthesis (2008-2023). The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 64(3), 174-183. https://doi.org/10.1002/johc.70003
  • Wilkinson, B. D., & Wilkinson, K. (2024). The ecological-enactive approach to embodiment in experiential counseling. The Humanistic Psychologist, 53(1), 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000349
  • Vickery, P., Hanna, F. J., & Wilkinson, B. D. (2023). The Freedom-from Oppression Model: Anintegrative existential-cognitive therapy. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 62(3), 173-186. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/johc.12205
  • Wilkinson, B. D. (2023). Understanding experiential awareness in humanistic-phenomenological counseling. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 62(2), 145-159. https://doi.org/10.1002/johc.12196
  • Givens, J., & Wilkinson, B. D. (2022). More than a feeling: Constructing emotion in counseling theory and practice. Journal of Counseling and Development, 100(4), 433-441. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.12437
  • Wilkinson, B. D. (2022). Holistic irreducibility: Humanistic practice as the gateway to phenomenal mind. Journal of Counseling and Development, 100(2), 215-224. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.12415
  • Wilkinson, B. D., Saltis, M., & Dewell, J. A. (2020). Promoting cognitive complexity in counselor education: Constructivist and phenomenological practices. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 59(1), 54-70. https://doi.org/10.1002/johc.12129
  • Shannon, E., & Wilkinson, B. D. (2020). The ambiguity of perinatal loss: A dual-process approach to grief counseling. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 42(2), 140-154. https://doi.org/10.17744/mehc.42.2.04
  • Wilkinson, B. D., Shank, G., & Hanna, F. J. (2019). Epistemological issues in counselor preparation: A detailed examination of constructivist and phenomenological assumptions. Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision, 12(4). https://repository.wcsu.edu/jcps/vol12/iss4/13
  • Wilkinson, B. D. & Dewell, J. A. (2019). Cognitive complexity: Differentiation and integration in counseling practice and training. Journal of Counseling and Development, 97(3), 317-324. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.12271
  • Wilkinson, B. D. (2019). A refined and further defined argument on the limits of neuroscience in counseling: Response to Field, Luke, Beeson and Miller. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 58(2), 119-134. https://doi.org/10.1002/johc.12101
  • Wilkinson, B. D. (2019). Validation study of the orientation model: A dual-process assessment framework. Journal of Counseling and Development, 97(2), 183-195. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.12249
  • Wilkinson, B. D. & Hanna, F. J. (2018). Using the precursors model of change to facilitate engagement practices in family counseling. The Family Journal, 26(3), 306-314. https://doi.org/10.1177/1066480718795502
  • Wilkinson, B. D. (2018). The limits of neuroscience in counseling: A humanistic perspective and proposed model. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 57(1), 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1002/johc.12067
  • Hanna, F. J., Wilkinson, B. D., & Givens, J. (2017). Recovering the original phenomenological research method: An exploration of Husserl, Yoga, Buddhism, and new frontiers in humanistic counseling. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 56(2), 58-75. https://doi.org/10.1002/johc.12049
  • Wilkinson, B. D. & Hanna, F. J. (2016). New horizons in counselor pedagogy: The intersection of constructivist concepts and phenomenological awareness. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 55(1), 2-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/johc.12021
  • Wilkinson, B. D. (2015). The orientation model: A dual-process approach to case conceptualization. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 54(1), 23-40. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-1939.2015.00062.x