Justin Karter

Doctoral Intern

University at Albany

 

Justin M. Karter, MA, MA, is currently a doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a clinical doctoral intern at the SUNY Albany Counseling Center. He holds master's degrees in both Journalism and Mass Communication and Clinical and Community Psychology from Point Park University in Pittsburgh. Justin's research interests are in the interdisciplinary social sciences, critical psychology, and philosophy of psychology. He is currently working on his dissertation, which is a qualitative investigation of the experiences of self-identified psychosocial disability advocates who are engaged in activism within and against the movement for global mental health. In his clinical work, Justin is interested in relational psychodynamic, humanistic, narrative, and liberation approaches to psychotherapy and is currently training in a college counseling setting. In addition, Justin serves as the lead news editor for the social-justice oriented webzine, Mad in America.