Chi Sigma Iota Counseling Academic and Professional Honor Society International is the counseling profession’s international honor society. Its purpose is to promote scholarship, research, professionalism, leadership, advocacy, and excellence in counseling—and to recognize high attainment in academic and clinical excellence.

Join the Touro University Chapter

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Joining a campus CSI chapter gives you a “home base” for professional identity-building while you’re still in training. You’ll take part in chapter programming, service/advocacy projects, leadership roles, and connection to the larger CSI network. CSI emphasizes helping members build connections, strengthen professional identity, and grow alongside counselors nationwide and internationally. 

Benefits include:

Professional identity + recognition: CSI will help you develop what you stand for, your specialty, your leadership style. You’ll also have an honor society credential that signals commitment to counseling excellence. 

Networking and mentorship: Access to a broad community of counseling students, counselor educators, and professional counselors with shared interests/specialties. Beyond your time in school, this lifelong network remains with you for consultation, supervision, referrals, and career mobility.

Leadership development: Chapter officer roles, committees, and servant-leadership experiences that translate directly to career readiness. 

Professional development resources: CSI offers development support and career resources (i.e. job search and networking guidance), and many chapters highlight training opportunities such as webinars/CE resources. 

Awards, grants, and fellowships: Opportunities that support research, chapter initiatives, and individual achievement.

Develop a leadership-and-scholarship track record through service, advocacy, presentations, and research support which can be useful for promotions, licensure-era opportunities, and future supervisor/educator roles.

Faculty Chapter Advisor

Halima Dargan, PhD, LPC

Field Placement Coordinator, Clinical Mental Health CounselingAssistant Professor, Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Student Leadership

Abigail Newman

Abigail Newman

President


Bailey Shapiro

Bailey Shapiro

Class of '27
Member at Large