Dr. Ratanashevorn serves as a core faculty for the Professional Mental Health Counseling Program and teaches the Research Methods in Counseling and Group Counseling for Adults classes. He has committed to social justice and advocacy for marginalized communities by participating in and contributed to local and regional events that support the LGBTIQ+ community, both in Thailand and the U.S. He has facilitated training sessions and workshops on LGBTQ+ cultural competence as well as conducted research, delivered conference presentations, and published journal article targeting marginalized communities (LGBTIQ+ and Asian international students) in the pursuit of equity. His teaching and scholarly interests include LGBTQ+ cultural competency, LGBTQ+ mental health and interventions, cultural humility, intersectionality, college counseling, trauma-informed therapy, existential humanistic therapy, qualitative research, constructivist grounded theory and group counseling. His clinical experience includes working with adults and young adults, mainly in the college setting over the past decade.
Dr. Ratanashevorn has been awarded the Ralph F. Berdie Memorial Research Award by the American Counseling Association in 2024 as well as the Multicultural Assessment & Research in Counseling Student Grant Award by the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling in 2023.
Areas of Expertise
LGBTQ+ cultural competency, LGBTQ+ mental health and interventions, cultural humility, intersectionality, college counseling, trauma-informed therapy, and existential humanistic therapy.
Publications
2024 Ratanashevorn, R., Kim, S. R., Kashubeck-West, S., & Ojanen, T. T., Cultural Humility, Counseling Alliance, and Counseling Outcome among LGBTQ+ clients, Journal of Counseling and Development, 102(3), 253-263.
2024 Somerville, T., Rose, B., Ratanashevorn, R., Crawford, D., & Kashubeck-West, S., LGBTQ+ Communities and Co-occurring Disorders. In R. W. Holt and R. R. Moro (Eds.), Counseling Individuals with Co-occurring Addictive and Mental Disorders (pp. 403-423), New York: Springer Publishing.
2023 Kim, S. R., Ratanashevorn, G., & Mizutani, Y., Advocacy for mental health of Asian international college students, Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy, 10(1), 52-62.
2021 Ratanashevorn, R., & Brown, E. C., “Alone in the Rain(bow)”: Existential Therapy for Loneliness in LGBTQ+ Clients. Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling, 15(1), 110-127.
2019 Ojanen T. T., Newman A. P., Ratanashevorn, R., de Lind van Wijngaarden W. J., & Tepjan S., Whose paradise? An intersectional perspective on mental health and gender/sexual diversity in Thailand. In N. Nakamura and C. H. Logie (Eds.), LGBTQ Mental Health: International Perspectives and Experiences, American Psychological Association.
2017 Manalastas J. E., Ojanen T. T., Torre A. B., Ratanashevorn, R., Choong, C. H. B., Kumaresan V., & Veeramuthu V., Homonegativity in Southeast Asia: Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 17(1), 25-33.
2016 Ojanen T. T., Ratanashevorn, R., & Boonkerd S., Gaps in responses to LGBT issues in Thailand: Mental health research, services, and policies, Psychology of Sexualities Review, Vol. 7(1), 41-59.
2016 Harris M. K., Thandrayen J., Samphoas C., Se P., Lewchalermwongse B., Ratanashevorn, R., Perry L. M., & Britts C., Estimating suicide rates in developing nations: a low-cost newspaper capture-recapture approach in Cambodia, Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 28(3), March 2016.
Presentations
Sep 2024 Ratanashevorn, R., Integrating Cultural Humility and Cultural Competence in LGBTIQ+ Client Work. Presented at the 2024 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Oct 2023 Ratanashevorn, R., “Long way to go”: Obstacles and Strategies Implementing LGBTIQ+ Cultural Competency Training. Presented at the 2023 Association Counselor Education and Supervision Conference, Denver, Colorado.
Apr 2023 Ratanashevorn, R., Centering LGBTIQ+ clients’ voices: The role of cultural humility on therapeutic alliance and therapy outcome for LGBTIQ+ clients. Presented at the 2023 American Counseling Association Conference & Expo, Toronto, Canada.
Sep 2022 Mizutani, Y., Kim, S. R., & Ratanashevorn, R., Advocacy Strategies for Asian International College Students. Presented at the 2022 North Central Association Counselor Education and Supervision Conference, Omaha, Nebraska.
Oct 2022 Ratanashevorn, R., Cultural Humility of Counselor-in-Trainings in Developing LGBTIQ+ Cultural Competency. Presented at the 2022 North Central Association Counselor Education and Supervision Conference, Omaha, Nebraska.
Academic Credentials
- PhD 2024, University of Missouri, St. Louis
- MA 2013, Chulalongkorn University
- BS 2009, Chulalongkorn University