Ali Cissey USMAN is a doctoral student in counselor education and supervision whose clinical, teaching, and research interests center on emotional processes shaping counselor development. Scholarship examines the role of shame in social justice pedagogy and how unprocessed shame manifests in counselor education as defensiveness, withdrawal, anger, or moral injury. Practices clinically from a person-centered orientation, emphasizing empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard. Conceptualizes shame as an adaptive relational signal that emerges when identity, belonging, or moral self-concept feels threatened. Has facilitated graduate discussions on race, privilege, oppression, and cultural identity as a doctoral student and clinical supervisor, observing that many difficult classroom dynamics are affective responses rooted in shame rather than cognitive disagreements.
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