Jasmine Khamis
Doctoral Student
Jasmine Khamis is a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on multicultural counseling and coping with cultural diversity and college mental health. Her interests are related to multicultural approaches to teaching, clinical training, and scholarship, by centering on issues of social justice.
Before joining BU, Jasmine worked as an instructor in higher educational settings for a decade. She also led research on perfectionism among college age students and the impact on mental health. She has extensive clinical experience previously working as a clinician for acute patients in locked settings, providing DBT therapy to youth in residential treatment programs, acute crisis care. She has also provided clinical care for adolescents in long-term treatment settings and who have suffered pervasive trauma. While at Harvard University, she conducted an honors thesis studying BIPOC youth resilience.
pronouns: she/her
Education
EdM, Harvard University
CAGS, Salem State University
BA, Mount Holyoke College
Courses
CE 769: Substance Abuse and Treatment
CE 635: Counseling Skills and Techniques
CE 737: Counseling Theory and Philosophy
CE 741: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Selected Publications
Coutinho, M.T., Perez, A., Raman, D., Khamis, J., Arcot, R., Dillingham, D. , Bui, B., Adelabu, D., Kim., G. (in preparation). Training culturally responsive clinicians: What does it mean to center marginalized identities? Psychotherapy.
Selected Presentations
Kim, G., Arcot, R., Chen, S., Khamis, J., Rosenzweig, L., Songtachalert, T., & Aradhya, P. (2025, August). Liberatory conversations: Honoring joy and authenticity as resistance in political dialogue [Symposia presentation]. APA Annual Conference, Denver, Colo.
Khamis, J. (2021). Racial and cultural identity development [Presentation]. Southern Utah University Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS), Utah.
Khamis, J. (2019, October). Resilience in the face of oppression: How veiling and unveiling transformed experiences of prejudice into experiences of social justice. Boston College Diversity Challenge Conference, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Khamis, J. (2014, October). Resilience in the face of oppression: How veiling and unveiling transformed experiences of prejudice into experiences of social justice. Boston College Diversity Challenge Conference, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Khamis, J., & Mobley, M. (2014, August). The impact of acculturation on mental health outcomes for Arab-Americans. APA Annual Conference, Washington, DC.