Research
Conference Presentations
10 presentations across 4 countries. Spanning Jungian analysis, structural dream work for PTSD, embodied practice, critical discourse on addiction, and advocacy as clinical framework.
Jungian Psychology
Structural Dream Analysis in Analytical Psychotherapies: Addressing PTSD in Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors
The Process of Transformation · Catholic University Freiburg · Freiburg, Germany
Structural analysis of dream content as a clinical tool for tracking trauma processing in Jungian psychotherapy. Application to childhood sexual abuse survivors with PTSD.
The Dragon and the Eagle: A Jungian Analysis of Aggression and Symbolism in a Young Chinese Immigrant
2nd Child and Adolescent Conference in Asia · Taipei, Taiwan
Jungian case analysis exploring cultural symbolism, aggression, and individuation in a child immigrant. The dragon and eagle as archetypal carriers of bicultural identity conflict.
Psyche Speaks
International Association for the Study of Dreams · Ashland, Oregon
Exploring the dream as autonomous psychic expression. Clinical applications of dream work in analytical psychotherapy.
Embodied Practice
Tuning into our Experiences: Towards an Embodied Authenticity for Counselors
Pennsylvania Counseling Association Conference · Harrisburg, PA
The role of somatic awareness and embodied presence in clinical practice. How counselors can develop authenticity through attention to their own bodily experience during sessions.
Tuning into our Experiences Redux: Towards Expressive Arts and the Body in Counseling Practice
Indiana University of Pennsylvania · Indiana, PA
Extended exploration of expressive arts modalities as pathways to embodied clinical practice. Integrating movement, image, and somatic awareness into counselor development.
Critical Discourse
From Policy to Practice: The Discourses that Shape Substance Use Disorder
Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology · UC Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, CA
Discourse analysis examining how policy language constructs substance use disorder and shapes treatment practices. The gap between policy rhetoric and clinical reality.
American Counselors Speak About Addiction and Perspectives from Other Regions
Global South Critical Psychology Conference · Arden University · United Kingdom
Cross-cultural analysis of how counselors in different regions conceptualize addiction. American treatment paradigms examined from a Global South critical psychology perspective.
Advocacy & Ethics
A Better World Is Possible: Advocacy As A Lens For Treatment Planning in Counseling
American Counseling Association Annual Conference · Orlando, FL (2025)
Reframing treatment planning through an advocacy lens. How systemic awareness and social justice commitments can inform individualized clinical work without reducing clients to their context.
From Complicity to Advocacy: Counselors Ethical Duty to Address the Genocide in Palestine
Chi Sigma Iota Pennsylvania Statewide Conference · Slippery Rock University · Slippery Rock, PA
Examining the ethical obligations of counseling professionals to engage with geopolitical violence. The tension between clinical neutrality and moral responsibility.
Unconscious Values: Greater than the Sum of Its Parts — Social Justice for Social Interest
Indiana University of Pennsylvania · Indiana, PA
Adlerian social interest meets critical consciousness. How unconscious values shape clinical practice and why making them explicit is both a clinical and ethical imperative.
Collaboration
For speaking invitations, research collaboration, or conference proposals: brian@briannuckols.com