Sailee Karkhanis Rath
Ph.D., M.Ed., LSC
Assistant Professor of School Counseling
Department of School Psychology, Counseling and Leadership
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Welcome
I’m an Assistant Professor of School Counseling at Brooklyn College, and my work centers on preparing school counselors to protect and advocate for K-12 youth in an increasingly digital world. My research looks at cyberbullying, digital harm, and help-seeking among K-12 students, and at how counselor educators prepare school counselors to respond. I teach core clinical and leadership courses in our graduate School Counseling program, where I focus on culturally responsive practice and counseling skills.
Before Brooklyn, I earned my Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of Iowa and my M.Ed. in Human Development Counseling (School Counseling) at Vanderbilt University. I’m a Licensed Professional School Counselor in Tennessee, and as a Gandhi Fellow I worked with government school educators in Rajasthan, India.
Areas of focus
Cyberbullying & digital harm
How K-12 students experience online harm, and how school counselors can prevent and respond to it.
Counselor preparation
How counselor educators train school counselors, including culturally responsive and ethical practice.
Youth, social media & AI
Adolescents’ social media use and AI-based help-seeking, viewed through a school counseling lens.
Featured
University of Iowa · Nov 2023
Counselor education faculty, students receive honors for research, teaching
My NCACES Outstanding Graduate Student Award, and my research on how social media affects adolescents’ mental health.
University of Iowa · Feb 2023
Research grants help Counselor Education and Supervision students pursue projects
My ACES grant to study how adolescents from minoritized communities use social media in their daily lives.
Brooklyn College · May 2026
Empowering School Counselors: Cyberbullying in the Digital Age
My roundtable at the 29th Annual Faculty Day Conference.
The Journal of Humanistic Counseling · 2026
Counselor educators’ and supervisors’ perceptions of professional dispositions
Co-authored with Allison Levine and Susannah Wood.
NARACES
Advocacy Committee
I serve as co-chair of the North Atlantic Region ACES Advocacy Committee.
Brooklyn College
School Psychology, Counseling, and Leadership
My department and its graduate School Counseling program.
Latest writing
- Preparing school counselors for cyberbullying: what counselor educators told usWith Dr. Yung-Wei Lin, I interviewed 12 counselor educators about how they prepare school counselors to address cyberbullying. Here is what we found.
- What we know, and don’t, about generative AI in counselor educationOur scoping review mapped 14 sources on generative AI in counselor education. None yet measures whether trainees become better counselors.
- What do we mean by “professional dispositions”?My new article in The Journal of Humanistic Counseling looks at how counselor educators and supervisors describe professional dispositions.
Recent highlights
- I was selected as a 2026–2027 NARACES Emerging Leader (North Atlantic Region ACES).
- I’m the principal investigator on a Cycle 57 PSC-CUNY Research Award (2026–2027) for School Counselors in the Age of Digital Harm.
- I also lead a Tow Faculty Research and Creativity Grant at Brooklyn College (2026–2027).
- My article with Dr. Yung-Wei Lin on how counselor educators train school counselors to address cyberbullying is in press at Professional School Counseling.
- I serve on the NARACES board as Advocacy Co-Chair, and as Newsletter Chair for the ACES New Faculty Interest Network.