ABSTRACT
Counseling professionals have increased their involvement in providing services in the wake of crisis and natural disasters given the uptick in natural disasters over the past several decades with an average death toll of 90,000 people each year (World Health Organization, 2016). Natural disasters include earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, landslides, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, heat waves, and droughts. These cataclysmic events have an immediate impact on human lives and often result in the destruction of the physical, biological, and social environment of the affected people, thereby having a longerterm impact on their health, well-being, and survival.
