International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling
A Division of the American Counseling Association
IARTC Mission: To enhance the quality of life for people and communities worldwide by promoting the development of professional counselors; by advancing the ideals of the American Counseling Association, the counseling profession, and the ethical practice of counseling through trauma-informed practices; and, by nurturing respect for human dignity, cultural inclusivity, and resilience.
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To the good people in Ukraine, please know that many in the world stand with you. You are in our hearts and minds daily. There is a group of Professional Mental Health Counselors in the United States that particularly understands the kind of strain you are bravely enduring now. We are the International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling, an Affiliate of the American Counseling Association. We hope we can share with you resources and human contact for healing in the near future. The days are long and the nights are darker now. We stand with you and hope for the sunrise that brings peace, security, grace, and encouragement for all of you. It will be a long road, and we hope that we can walk that road with you, when the time comes, in any way that we can. Ϲлава Україні!
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
IARTC is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Understanding, and Empathy. We work to promote ethnic and racial empathy and understanding. IARTC continues to advocate, advance, and improve educational, professional, and leadership opportunities for members from diverse cultural backgrounds. IARTC denounces all forms of racism.
Budget & Finance Committee
Budget and Finance Committee: Prepares and presents the annual association budget, and shall carry out such other activities as may be assigned by the Board or the President. Monitors and confers as needed regarding IARTC finances and reports to the members at IARTC’s annual members' meeting.
Marcia McCall, PhD, MBA, LCMHC-A
Chair, Budget & Finance Committee
Marcia Huston McCall, PhD, MBA, LCMHC-A is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine (primary) and Physiology and Pharmacology (secondary). She researches clinical and economic outcomes of mental health interventions in medical settings. She collaborates with the Tobacco Control Center of Excellence on tobacco cessation programs and research. Dr. McCall provides individual and group psychotherapy to medical, graduate, physician assistant, nurse anesthesia, and master’s level student clients of Counseling and Well-Being Services, a program of the School of Medicine. She also provides psychotherapy to adult patients of the Psychiatry practice.
Dr. McCall obtained her doctoral degree in Counseling and Counselor Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she researched Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for hospitalized patients with substance misuse and disordered use. The SBIRT interventions were conducted by counselors and counseling trainees from the School of Medicine’s Addiction Research and Clinical Health program. She also holds Master of Arts in Counseling and Master of Business Administration degrees, both from Wake Forest University.
Previously, Dr. McCall served the School in business administrative positions and directed the NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center. While in Boston, she was the Assistant Controller of the Massachusetts General Hospital and practiced as a Certified Public Accountant with Deloitte.
Dr. McCall has practiced yoga for 25 years and became a Registered Yoga Teacher in 2014. She is married to School of Medicine faculty member Charles E. McCall, MD. Together they have three adult children located in New York and North Carolina, and three dogs at home in Winston-Salem.
