Rate My Professor Benjamin Aiken

Benjamin Aiken, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor, Clinical Supervisor, and Director of Training in the Counselling Psychology program at Adler University’s Vancouver campus, where he has taught and supervised since 2020. His academic background includes a Doctor of Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision with a graduate minor in Queer Studies from the University of Wyoming, completed in 2020, and a master’s degree earned in 2015. Dr. Aiken’s scholarship examines the experiences of gender-diverse and transmasculine clients working with cisgender male therapists, while his teaching focuses on gender and sexuality, meaning-making in suffering, and existential and culturally responsive approaches to counselling, counselor education, and clinical supervision. He was appointed Director of Training in 2024.

Alongside his academic role, Dr. Aiken has maintained a private counselling practice since 2015. He is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado and Wyoming, a registered clinical counsellor in British Columbia, and a Diplomate Clinician of Logotherapy with the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. His 2024 publication, “On Tragedy and Transformation: A Logotherapeutic Autoethnography,” appears in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna, Volume II (Springer International Publishing). He has presented at international and regional conferences including the World Congress of the Viktor Frankl Institute, the Matthew Shepard Symposium on Social Justice, the Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities, the Association for Creativity in Counseling, the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors, and regional conferences of the American Counseling Association. Dr. Aiken is actively involved in research and collaboration on meaning-centered approaches and narrative methods in mental health.

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