Mark D. Stauffer, PhD, NCC,tRun SCXW40899949 BCX0"> is a core faculty member in the clinical mental health counseling program at Walden University. He specialized in couples, marriage, and family counseling during his graduate work in the counselor education program at Portland State University, where he received his master’s degree. He received his doctoral degree from Oregon State University, Department of Teacher and Counselor Education.  

Dr. Stauffer is the past president of the Association of Humanistic Counseling (AHC) and past co-chair of the American Counseling Association International Committee, and he recently served on the American Counseling Associations Climate Change Task Force. He was a Chi Sigma Iota International Fellow and was awarded the American Counseling Association’s Emerging Leaders Grant and the AHC Humanistic Leadership and Past President’s awards. 

As a clinician, Dr. Stauffer has worked in crises centers and other nonprofit organizations working with low-income individuals, couples, and families in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon. Along with an existential-humanistic and systems theoretical orientation, he has studied and trained in the Zen tradition for 25 years and presents locally and nationally on meditation as well as mindfulness-based therapies in counseling. He also leads nature-connection community mentoring programs for youth. His current research projects focus on climate change and mental health as well as antiracism in counselor education.  

In addition to Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (2016, 2022), he has co-published with Dr. Capuzzi Foundations of Couples, Marriage, and Family Counseling (2015, 2021); Foundations of Addictions Counseling (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020); Foundations of Group Counseling (2019); Career Counseling: Foundations, Perspectives, and Applications (2006, 2012, 2019); and Human Growth and Development Across the Life Span: Applications for Counselors (2016).