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Dr. Taylor Bourque is an LPC and and LCMHC licensed in Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina. She is the owner of Novel Wellness Counseling, a private practice based in North Carolina. Dr. Bourque earned her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Holy Cross in New Orleans. Her dissertation, The Impact of No-Contact, reflects her clinical and scholarly inteinterest in family systems and parental estrangement. She lives near Raleigh, NC with her husband, three kids, and her two beloved cats.
BS in Psychology, Louisiana State University
MA in Marriage and Family Therapy, Houston Christian University
Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision, University of Holy Cross New Orleans
My classes are engaging, practical, and relational. I create a learning environment where students feel both supported and challenged as they develop their professional couselor identity. Students can expect a balance of meaningful discussion, real-world clinical application, ethical reflection, and opportunities to connect course material to the lived work of counseling. My teaching style is largely collaborative with students, grounded in curiosity and passion for the field of counseling.
I am excited to teach at Anderson University because its mission aligns with the way I approach counselor education as both a professional preparation and a meaningful vocation. I am drawn to Anderson’s committment to academic excellence, clinical training, and faith-informed education, and I value the opportunity to help students grow in knowledge, skill, character, and professional identity. AU’s mission is congruent with how I approach service, human dignity, and the sacred nature of sitting with others in seasons of pain, growth, and restoration, and it offers an opportunity for me to integreate clinical excellence, ethical practice, compassion, and faith as I prepare future counselors for this meaningful work.
Counseling is both meaningful and demanding work. It is not advice-giving, or simply about good listening skills; it requires clinical skill, ethical decision-making, cultural humility, self-awareness, and the ability to sit with people in some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives. Careers in counseling can be incredibly diverse, including work in private practice, schools, agencies, hospitals, community settings, ministry, and counselor education. However, at its core, this discipline asks students to grow not only in knowledge and technique, but also in who they are as people and professionials.
In 2024, I was a guest speaker on a televised mental health program called Coping Today discussing how to cope with anger.
I enjoy being able to build relationships with students, supporting their clinical and professional development, and watching them grow in confidence. I also enjoy the collaborative nature of Anderson University faculty and the shared commitment to development of competent, ethically sound, compassionate students.
My areas of specialty include parental estrangement, relational dynamics, and family systems.
Bourque, T. M. (2026) The Impact of No-Contact: Understanding How Married Millennial Mothers Navigate Parental Estrangement [Doctoral dissertation, University of Holy Cross]. Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global.
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