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5.08/20/2025

Encourages students to ask questions.

5.04/30/2025

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About Senel

Senel Poyrazli is a Distinguished Professor of Counseling Psychology in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg - The Capital College. She received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Houston, M.Sc. in counseling psychology from Northeastern University in Boston, and B.A. in psychological counseling and guidance from Hacettepe University in Turkey. Her clinical experience encompasses work with adolescents, college students, adults, married and unmarried couples, and war veterans, addressing issues such as relationships, psychosocial adjustment, decision making, depression, and trauma. Dr. Poyrazli's research centers on college students' and immigrants' psychosocial and academic adjustment, cross-cultural competency, acculturative stress, factors impacting immigrant student achievement, international students' academic failure, and microaggressions faced by Syrian refugee college students. She teaches courses including counseling skills, interviewing and counseling, group counseling, theories of counseling, family therapy, internship, research methods, and multicultural competency.