Janeé Steele, PhD, LPC
Janeé M. Steele, PhD, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor, counselor educator, and expert in culturally responsive practice. She is the owner of Kalamazoo Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, PLLC, and has published extensively on racial identity, internalized oppression, and multicultural counseling. Dr. Steele is author of the book Racism and African American Mental Health: Using Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Empower Healing, with forward by Judith S. Beck, and co-author of the book Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal From Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity. Her other publications and research interests focus on counselor training, social justice, and multicultural counseling competence.
Dr. Steele’s expertise on these topics is widely recognized and has been featured by various organizations and media outlets such as the American Counseling Association, Counseling Today, Psychology Today, Psychiatric Times, the National Social Anxiety Center, and Vogue. This expertise is further shared through her work as an associate editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, a member of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies’ Diversity Action Committee, and an appointed member of the American Counseling Association’s Research and Knowledge Committee. As a presenter, Dr. Steele is known for her engaging, down-to-earth trainings that help clinicians translate inclusion principles into everyday practice.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Janee Steele has employment relationships with Kalamazoo Cognitive & Behavioral Therapy, PPLC. CBT of Central and South Florida, and Walden University. She receives royalties as a published author. Janee Steele receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Janee Steele is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (ACBT), the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), and the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development.
