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Counselors Without Borders is committed to providing culturally responsive humanitarian counseling in post-disaster emergency situations. CWB believes that counseling in urgent situations must be culturally sensitive and provide high-quality and relevant counseling. The primary aim of Counselors Without Borders is to either develop or work collaboratively with existing mental health, social service, public health, and educational infrastructures and provide services for those in need of mental health and psychosocial support who are in emergency situations and not receiving counseling support.

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Counselors Without Borders Selected as Winner of the 2023 Society of Counseling Psychology International Award for the Advancement of Counseling Psychology Values

Counselors Without Borders has been selected by the American Psychological Association Society for Counseling Psychology (Division 17) Awards Committee and Executive Board as the winner of the 2023 Society of Counseling Psychology International Award for the Advancement of Counseling Psychology Values.  The International Award seeks to recognize the bring attention to notable collective work focused …

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Counselors Without Borders – Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico

The U.S./Mexico borders have experienced significant changes since 2016, including the practice of metering, the Prompt Asylum Claim Review (PACR), the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP), a ban on asylum seekers who traveled through Mexico, and culminating in the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), colloquially referred to as Remain in Mexico.  The policy requires individuals and …

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Puerto Rico: The Power of Community Healing

Whenever the winds blow over the island, some Puerto Ricans immediately start to worry. The scars of the devastating category-5 Hurricane Maria that hit the island last September are still fresh in the minds of many people. Maria is the most logistically challenging disaster in U.S. history. The hurricane left at least 65 people dead, …

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Mason Team Helps Heal Scars From Disaster

Fred Bemak remembers all the hugs and tears. They inevitably come, he said, when his Counselors Without Borders team is on location helping hundreds—sometimes thousands—of people healing from the emotional scars of a disaster. “It’s the person who is grabbing and hugging you, thanking you for being there,” the George Mason University professor said. “That’s …

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CWB Director Receives Outstanding Faculty Award from State

Fred Bemak, a professor and academic program coordinator of George Mason University’s counseling and development program, is a recipient of a 2018 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). Bemak, in the College of Education and Human Development, is one of 12 recipients selected from 83 nominees, and the …

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Counseling Support to Indigenous Communities in Peru

In June of 2014, Counselors Without Borders and the Graduate Counseling Program from George Mason University sponsored an 11-day cross-cultural summer program in Peru. Our group was made of 12 graduate counseling students, led by Dr. Fred Bemak, Dr. Rita Chi-Ying Chung, and doctoral student Ricardo Sanchez.  Peru is known for being one of the …

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