Jane M. <span>Webber, PhD, LPC, DRCC, is a Lecturer in the Counselor Education Department at Kean University (Union, NJ) and is a New Jersey Licensed Professional Counselor. She was a member of the ACA Task Force for Crisis Response Planning and served on the Advisory Committee for Emergency Preparedness for the 2009 CACREP Standards. Dr. Webber was Guest Editor of the Traumatology Special Section of the Journal of Counseling and Development (Summer 2017) and was primary author of the Journal of Counseling and Development article “Traumatology Trends: A Content Analysis of Three Counseling Journals 1994–2014.” As ACA Foundation Chair during September 11, 2001, she advocated for the ACA Foundation publication Terrorism, Trauma, and Tragedies: Counselor’s Guide to Preparing and Responding, and she coedited the second and third editions. 

Dr. Webber is a former Chair of the ACA Foundation, North Atlantic Region, International Committee, Human Rights Committee, Public Awareness and Support Committee, as well as a member of Governing Council. She was a National Assembly Delegate of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling, national Membership Chair, and Member of the Bylaws committee. She is a life member of Chi Sigma Iota. 

Dr. Webber is former President of the New Jersey Counseling Association, the New Jersey Association for College Admission Counseling, the New Jersey Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors, and the New Jersey Association for Specialists in Group Work. She worked for more than 35 years as a college counselor, school counselor, school counseling supervisor, and private practitioner. She has published numerous articles and chapters on disaster mental health, trauma counseling, sand tray therapy, and school counseling—including “Integrating Sand Therapy Into Trauma Counseling: Historical Influences”—and she coauthored “Healing Trauma Through Humanistic Connection” in the award-winning book Humanistic Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling Issues.