Rebecca Randall

Rebecca Randall

PhD

Assistant Clinical Professor
Mental Health Counseling
Graduate School of Education

Rebecca Randall is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Mental Health Counseling program.  She holds a PhD in Counseling from Montclair State University, a Master's degree in Pastoral Counseling from Fordham University (2014), and a Master's degree in Theology from Villanova University (2000).  She holds a professional counseling license in New York State (LMHC) and New Jersey (LPC) as well as the Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS) credential. She is a practitioner in private practice, where she counsels adult individuals and couples and supervises practitioners in their post-graduate, pre-licensed clinical work. Rebecca engages in research related to Ethics, religious and spiritual integration in counseling, and adoption and adoption-competency in counseling.

  • Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
    PhD in Counseling (CACREP Accredited)
    Date of Degree Conferral: January 8, 2024
       
    Fordham University, Bronx, NY
    MA in Pastoral Counseling
    Honors:  Summa Cum Laude
    Earned: August 2014
       
    Villanova University, Villanova, PA
    MA in Theology
    Honors: Summa Cum Laude
    Earned: May 2000
       
    DeSales University, Center Valley, PA
    BA in English/Communications
    Honors: Magna Cum Laude
    Earned: May 1998
  • Baden, A. L, Sharma, S. M., Balducci, S., Ellis, L., Randall, R., Kwon, D., & Harrington, E.S. (2021). A trauma-informed substance use disorder prevention program for transraciallyadopted children and adolescents. Child Abuse & Neglect.
      
    Baden, A. L., Kim, A. Y., Randall, R., Jasmin, M., Kobus, A., Haywood, T., Nsenkyire, K., & Holtz, N. (2025). It’s Complicated: Adult Adoptees’ Relationship Quality and Contact Frequency in Estrangement. The Family Journal, 33(2), 270-279.
       
    Baden, A. L., Sharma, S. M., Adams, L. M., Randall, R., Agrusti, M. L., Harrington, E. S., Kobus, A. M., Jasmin, M., Kwon, D., Nsenkyire, K., Carias, R., & Balducci, S. (2024). “How Could You Give Your Child Away?” Birth Parents’ Experiences of Microaggressions. The Counseling Psychologist, 52(6), 960 990. https://doi.org/10.1177/00110000241265012
       
    Kim, J., Randall, R., Jasmin, M., Nova, S. J., Kobus, A., Holz, M. N., Haywood, T., & Baden, A. (Provisionally accepted for publication).  “Family is a really complicated word for me": Adopted adults reflect on adoptive family estrangement. The Journal of Family Psychology.
       
    Randall, R. & Levitt, D.H. (2022). Values integration in clinical supervision. Counseling and 
    Values, 67(2), 167-181. DOI: 10.1163/2161007X-67020005. 
       
    Randall, R. (2025). Wrestling with values. Counseling and Values, 70(3), 274-293. https://doi.org/10.1163/2160078-bja10037 
       
    Non-Refereed