Peitao Zhu is a doctoral candidate in Counseling and Counselor Education at Syracuse University. An international student originally from Shanghai, China, Peitao came to the U.S. in 2014 and obtained his MA in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine in 2016. Peitao’s professional interests include cultural humility, complex trauma, interpersonal process in counseling, group work, and counselor education pedagogy. His dissertation aims to develop a novel instrument to measure the enactment of cultural humility in counseling. Peitao has been awarded the Syracuse University Fellow and the Graduate Student Fellow of the Counseling and Human Services Division of the American Educational Research Association. Peitao also has extensive experiences with service and leadership in various professional organizations, such as the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Association for Specialists in Group Work, and Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling. Prior to pursuing a degree in counseling, Peitao was a student advisor for undergraduate students in a top university in China for four years. Peitao is a National Certified Counselor in the U.S. and a mental health counselor in the state of New York.
