Kelly Cramer, PhD, LPC, LPCC-S, NCC, LSC

Kelly Cramer (she/her/hers) serves as an adjunct faculty member at Southwestern and is a doctoral candidate in Counselor Education and Supervision at Oregon State University. She is a licensed clinician and clinical supervisor whose professional background spans counselor education, school counseling, community mental health, telehealth, and substance use treatment. Her teaching and mentoring are grounded in relational, ethical, antiracist, and socially engaged practice, with an emphasis on helping students become reflective, clinically grounded counselors who can respond thoughtfully to the complexities of real-world practice.

Cramer’s interdisciplinary interests include the intersections of climate change and mental health, nature and well-being, counselor development, supervision ethics, grief, and equity-centered care. She brings these interests into the classroom through applied, discussion-based, and experiential learning that invites students to connect theory, self-awareness, and clinical decision-making. Drawing from work across schools, community settings, and substance use treatment, she helps students engage in counseling as both a relational, systemic, and antiracist practice. Her advanced training includes ethics in supporting LGBTQIA+ clients and supervisees, childhood bereavement, adolescent development, youth substance use, suicide prevention/best practices, rural mental health, aging populations, disability and ableism, neurodiversity, human trafficking, and continuity of care.

Her current research includes collaboration on the Nature & Health Alliance’s 10-year update to Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda, which examines the impacts of nature contact on mental and physical health. Her doctoral dissertation examines online discourse surrounding climate change, climate-related anxiety, and mental health.