Bianca Augustine is a clinical assistant professor in the Counselor Education program at W&M. Dr. Augustine is a Resident in Counseling for the Commonwealth of Virginia, a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP), and a Life Member of Chi Sigma Iota International, the honor society for professional counselors.
Dr. Augustine's clinical interests include mental health counseling with minoritized ethnic groups and those with affectional and gender-expansive identities, as well as counseling concerns related to sexuality, trauma, and grief. Dr. Augustine works from an integrative, trauma-informed approach, often with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy at its foundation. Her research interests include the aforementioned areas, as well as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the treatment of racialized trauma, creative interventions in counseling, and the experiences of minoritized groups in counselor education and supervision programs and the profession.
Dr. Augustine is very passionate about counseling and teaching through social justice and anti-racist lens and an intersectionality-oriented perspective, in which she also integrates the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. In alignment with her values of advocacy, service, and education, she is actively involved in and holds leadership roles in multiple professional organizations. She is an Emerging Leader for the Southern Association of Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES), Secretary-Elect of the Hampton Roads Counseling Association, and holds leadership positions within the Association for Counseling Sexology and Sexual Wellness (ACSSW), Association for Contextual and Behavioral Sciences (ACBS), and the Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender-Expansive Identities (SAIGE).