Masica Jordan Alston, EdD, LCPC, CPRS, RPS
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Bowie State University faculty, focused on peer recovery, behavioral health workforce development, and culturally responsive counseling practice
Professional scope
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland (LCPC LC7980), Certified Peer Recovery Specialist, Registered Peer Supervisor, and Associate Professor at Bowie State University in the Department of Counseling and Psychological Studies. Qualified to speak on counseling practice, peer support integration into behavioral health treatment, substance use and co-occurring conditions, workforce and credentialing standards for peer specialists, grief and loss including disenfranchised grief, and culturally responsive counseling and training. Does not prescribe. Does not speak to psychopharmacology or to diagnosis outside her licensure, and recuses from any content that would require prescriber-level or pharmacy judgment.
About
Masica Jordan Alston is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland (LCPC LC7980), a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist, and a Registered Peer Supervisor. She is an Associate Professor at Bowie State University in the Department of Counseling and Psychological Studies, and the founder and CEO of Jordan Peer Recovery. She holds an EdD in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University (2010), an MA in Counseling Psychology from Bowie State (2005), a BS in Sociology from Bowie State (2003), and a Certificate in Participatory Design and Applications from MIT (2022). Her clinical, research, and teaching work centers on how peer recovery integrates into behavioral health treatment, how counselors and peer specialists are trained to deliver culturally responsive care, and how the peer workforce is credentialed and supervised. She is Principal Investigator on four funded workforce awards and has testified before the U.S. Government Accountability Office on peer recovery and the opioid epidemic.
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Employer: Bowie State University, faculty appointment at the rank of Associate Professor, confirmed for the 2026-2027 academic year by the Office of the Provost. Ownership and equity: founder and owner of Jordan Peer Recovery, the Jordan Alston Center for Education, Health and Innovation (JACE), Peerfinity, LLC, and Grief and Loss Centers of America. Jordan Peer Recovery and JACE deliver paid peer recovery training and workforce development services, which is a material interest on any page addressing peer support training, credentialing, or workforce standards. This is disclosed inline on any such page. She is recused from any Shrinkopedia page that discusses a training entity, credentialing body, or workforce provider in which she holds a financial interest, per network policy on current financial conflicts. Grant funding: Principal Investigator on four funded awards, the Colorado Apprenticeship Innovation Fund, State Opioid Response IV, EARN Maryland, and the Direct Care Workforce Innovation Program. Board seat: Adverse Childhood Experiences Initiative Advisory Committee, Maryland Behavioral Health Systems. No industry relationships, no speaker bureaus, and no pharmaceutical, device, EHR, or treatment-company consulting, advisory, or equity relationships. She contributed her perspective without payment, and Shrinkopedia does not refer patients or trainees to any entity in which she holds an interest.
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Licensure and certification
- Maryland. Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LC7980, Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists.
- National credentials. Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS). Registered Peer Supervisor (RPS).
Faculty appointment
- Bowie State University, Department of Counseling and Psychological Studies. Associate Professor. Appointment confirmed for the 2026-2027 academic year by the Bowie State University Office of the Provost.
Selected publications
Ham NP, Jordan Alston M, Humphrey M. Legacy and innovation: the Ujima culturally responsive school mental health framework for training school counselors at a Historically Black University. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmcd.70007
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Disclosure
Masica Jordan Alston is the founder and CEO of Jordan Peer Recovery and holds ownership interests in the Jordan Alston Center for Education, Health and Innovation (JACE), Peerfinity, LLC, and Grief and Loss Centers of America. Jordan Peer Recovery and JACE deliver paid peer recovery training and workforce development services. She contributed her perspective without payment. She is recused from any Shrinkopedia page that discusses a training entity, credentialing body, or workforce provider in which she holds a financial interest. Shrinkopedia does not refer patients or trainees to any entity in which she holds an interest, and inclusion of her perspective is not a clinical endorsement of any specific provider, program, or training organization.