Kristen Toole

Kristen Toole, MA, LPCC-S (she/her/hers) joined Xavier University in the fall of 2023 as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Counseling, specializing in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She is an alumna of Xavier University's Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master's program, where she began teaching as an adjunct professor in 2021.

Kristen is a doctoral candidate in The Ohio State University's Counselor Education and Supervision program and a supervisory Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in Ohio. She has ten years of counseling experience working with a variety of populations in various practice settings such as schools, higher education, private practice, community mental health, and hospitals.

Kristen's research and praxis interests are situated across a broad scholarship base and advocate for a multiculturally conscious and multidisciplinary approach to counseling and counselor education and supervision while tackling concepts of personal and professional identity development and social justice advocacy. She utilizes a combination of anti-oppressive frameworks, crip-feminist philosophy, and discursive practices to examine popular counseling standards and spatialized practices.

Kristen has publications in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy and the Adultspan Journal. She has also presented at local, state, regional, and national conferences. In addition to teaching and research, Kristen is committed to securing and enhancing the futurity of counseling through the guidance and support of future counselors and currently provides clinical supervision to graduate students.