Applied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives

About Jeffrey A. KottlerLeah M. Brew

Leah Brew is Chair and Professor in the Department of Counseling at California State University Fullerton. She teaches presents and publishes in the areas of basic counseling skills and multiculturalism. Specifically she has several publications and projects that have been centered on working with multiracial couples families and individuals. She collaborated on a project to establish Competencies for Counseling Multiracial Populations which was endorsed by the American Counseling Association. She has a small private practice where she specializes in working with diverse clients who struggle with depression and anxiety and are survivors of trauma. She also supervises students at a community agency who are working toward their masters degrees in counseling. She is active in the profession of counseling in the state of California and helped to obtain the Licensed Professional Clinical Counseling credential in California the last state to license counselors. She was also appointed a gubernatorial position as the LPCC representative on the state licensure board and has taken a leadership role in improving supervision requirements in the state.  Jeffrey A. Kottler is one of the most prolific authors in the fields of counseling psychotherapy and education having written more than 90 books about a wide range of subjects. He has authored a dozen texts for counselors and therapists that are used in universities around the world and a dozen books each for practicing therapists and educators. Some of his most highly regarded works include Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy The Mummy at the Dining Room Table: Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us About Human Behavior Bad Therapy The Client Who Changed Me Divine Madness Change: What Leads to Personal Transformation Stories Weve Heard Stories Weve Told: Life-Changing Narratives in Therapy and Everyday Life and Therapy Over 50. He has been an educator for 40 years having worked as a teacher counselor and therapist in preschool middle school mental health center crisis center nongovernmental organization university community college private practice and disaster relief settings. He has served as a Fulbright scholar and senior lecturer in Peru and Iceland as well as worked as a visiting professor in New Zealand Australia Hong Kong Singapore and Nepal. He is professor of counseling at California State University Fullerton.