NASAP Sections

The purpose of the Section shall be to serve as a home to all service professionals who identify as Adlerian and who adopt Adlerian perspectives, techniques, and strategies in serving others.

Professionals who identify as Adlerian, including students, licensed and pre-licensed clinicians, professors, researchers, coaches, and health and wellness professionals.

The Clinical Practice Section strives to: 

1. Create a supportive network and provide networking opportunities for members

2. Promote and develop trainings that involve the integration of Adlerian psychology with compatible perspectives and approaches.

3. Support and foster education, clinical practice, research, and publication of materials in support of Individual Psychology.

4. Promote the development of Adlerian Psychology to serve the needs of an evolving and changing society.

Current Chairs - Grace Jacobson and Connie Victor

Members are professionals and non-professionals in the field of education. Our members include: teachers, school counselors, school psychologists, administrators, professors, and parents dedicated to promoting Adlerian principles as best practices in their school environments. Our goals include the sharing and exchange of information, research, and online classes for educators. Additionally, we offer workshops at the annual NASAP conference designed to assist educators. We welcome feedback, ideas, and encourage our members to submit newsletter articles.

Section Reps: Jody Malterre and Eva Dwight

The Family Education Section applies Adlerian principles to the home. Members are professionals and nonprofessionals dedicated to understanding and improving family relationships between children and adults, within couples, and among individuals. Our purpose is "to create a forum and network for exchanging ideas, materials, and resources related to Adlerian Family Education; to reduce isolation and discouragement among individuals and small groups who do not have access to on-going community support; to encourage the development of increasingly effective methods for the research, collection, and dissemination of information related to Family Education; and to support and highlight the work already in existence in Family Education.

Section Reps: Bob Saxner and Marjie Longshore

The purpose of the Social Justice Section shall be to serve all members of NASAP, as well as the larger human community by:

To inspire worldwide advocacy for diversity and representation in NASAP implementing Adlerian core values

To Recognize and empower all types of intersectional identities as the first step to social justice

To promote meaningful and ongoing social justice starting from within the organization

To foster a sense of belonging where a welcoming and affirming community is the cornerstone of our work

To strengthen NASAP via increasing diversity and representation, intersectional identity recognition, and empowerment

To heal and transform social wounds utilizing Adlerian core values

To facilitate sense of belonging, welcoming, affirming environment within NASAP

To work towards decreasing injustice inside and outside of NASAP, bring change, educate on social justice issues, meaningful, ongoing, long term, difficult conversations, transformative change, awareness, and reduce stigma

To facilitate meetings, symposiums, and presentations on social justice and diversity for NASAP


To provide support to members on social justice and diversity


To foster research and publication of materials on social justice and diversity

TLC applies Adlerian principles to enhance how individuals, groups, communities, businesses, and organizations may engage in transformative leadership for creating positive social change. Adlerian principles of social interest underpin transformative leadership and coaching to support our members in understanding their role to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, shared responsibility, and accountability.

Coaching, as described by the International Coach Federation (ICF), is a creative collaboration between clients and coaches intended to inspire clients to increase their self-awareness, self-confidence, effectiveness, and capacity to deliver impactful results.

Adlerian principles fortify strengths-based coaching to enhance connection, belonging and courage as well as for advancing social equality. Adlerian principles encourage persons to realize their full potential, and contribute to the realization of the full potential in others. This Transformative Leadership & Coaching section blends many Adlerian practices in supporting collective well-being for positive social change.

Section Reps: Pascale Brady and Kevin O'Connor

The Theory, Research, and Teaching Section (TRT) encourages the theoretical development of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology through scholarly research and the teaching of this orientation at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We provide symposiums and presentations, facilitate meetings at our annual convention, and support one another as we extend the scientific and academic frontier of Individual Psychology. Members of the TRT Section join together, regardless of focus or application, and strive to keep Individual Psychology relevant and applicable.

Section Reps: Daniel Williamson and Jennifer Williamson