Dr. Eunae Han is an assistant professor in the Counseling and Special Education department at the University of Texas at El Paso. Before coming to the United States to pursue her doctoral degree, she worked as a certified counselor for over three years in South Korea. She actively continues her clinical practice as an EMDR-trained counselor in the United States. Her research interests, which emerged from her clinical experiences, include feminist approaches to counselor education, trauma-informed counseling and supervision, and researcher identity/research mentoring. She aims to assist women’s mental health through effective counseling, teaching, research, and advocacy. Dr. Han believes it is important to incorporate multicultural and social justice perspectives into her roles as a researcher, educator, and advocate. She also values her professional identity as a counselor and counselor educator and enjoys working as a data analyst on a research team.

• Inaugural ACES Grant Academy Fellow - Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) (08/01/2024)
• AARC Emerging Leader: New Professional - Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (AARC) (07/01/2024)
• Dean’s Achievement Award recipient for the College of Education - Center for Inclusive Academic Excellence Graduation, the University of Iowa (05/01/2022)
• Beck Institute Student Scholarship Contest - Beck Institute (05/01/2021)
• Richard L. Sanner Graduate Scholarship - The University of Iowa (03/01/2021)

• Ph D in Counselor Education and Supervision, The University of Iowa (2022)
• MA in Educational Measurement and Statistics, The University of Iowa (2021)
• MA in Educational Counseling, Seoul National University (2015)
• BA in English Language Education, Seoul National University (2012)

• Counselors’ Theoretical Orientations and Competencies in Counseling Women Journal of Counseling & Development (2025), Eunae Han, Lesa Hoffman, Susannah Wood.
• Feminist Intersectional Theory with Crisis Intervention and Trauma. Rowman & Littlefield. (2025), Dominique Maywald, Michelle Sunkel, Laura Dawson-Fend, Eunae Han, Madalyn Stott.
• Feminist Research: A Fourth-Wave Frame for Inquiry. Rowman & Littlefield. (2025), Amber Sutton, Eunae Han, Takeesha Hawkins, Candace N. Park.
• Effect of Photovoice on Teaching Research to Counseling Students at Hispanic-serving Institution. Teaching and Supervision in Counseling (2025), Eunae Han.
• Moving Beyond Traditional Multiculturalism: Dis/ability Awareness in Counselor Education. IGI Global (2024), Alicia Becton, Eunae Han, Lee Za Ong, Amber Johnson, Roy Chen, Gabriela Rangel, Stephenie S. Lusk.

• DisCrit in Counselor Education: Redefining Multiculturalism through Dis/Ability Awareness. (2025), Volume San Juan, Puerto Rico, Alicia Becton, Amber Johnson, Eunae Han.
• Becoming a Pioneer in the Era of Backlash: Feminist Supervisors in South Korea (2024), Volume Dallas, TX., Eunae Han, Sang Min Shin, Anaysa V. Arce, Estefania Guzman.
• Demystifying mixed-method designs: “It’s not just quant + qual.” (2024), Volume Pittsburgh, PA, Eunae Han, Injung Lee.
• Machismo Measure for Men in Mexico with a History of Domestic Violence (2024), Volume Pittsburgh, PA, Eunae Han, Paul Carrola, Johana Rocha.
• An Intersectional Feminist Lens for Addressing Crisis Assessment and Trauma Treatment (2024), Volume Philadelphia, PA, Laura Dawson-Fend, Michelle Sunkel, Dominique Maywald, Eunae Han.

• [Internal] Building Collaborative Teams between the UTEP and the UTRGV
• A community-engaged mixed-methods approach to understanding the service delivery needs of working-age people from racial/ethnic minority groups who have Long COVID (LC) and are interacting with SSA disability and state vocational rehabilitation (VR) systems.
• UTEP Hispanic Servingness Program for Equity in Student Health and Success