Emily Anne Marciniak Hansen Email & Phone Number

Guelph, Ontario

I have begun practicing in Guelph, Ontario with MyLife Counselling. My approach is warm, grounded, and down-to-earth, and my specialized training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy allows me to help people learn how to cope with overwhelming emotions such as anger, anxiety, and sadness. My background in Positive Psychology enables me to help individuals discover their strengths and apply these towards living more meaningful and fulfilling lives.

Eieio Program

EIEIO stands for Early Identification, Early Intervention and Outreach. This program seeks to provide children aged 6-8 with an intensive therapeutic intervention in order to reintegrate them into a regular classroom environment. This program seeks to aid children with unidentified mental health challenges overcome them and build resilience and positive relationships with education professionals.

Stonehenge Therapeutic Community is a residential treatment centre for individuals recovering from substance addictions and concurrent disorders. Behavioural counsellors are responsible for managing and supervising residents' daily activities including check-ins, meals, scheduled outings, evening programming, and more. Counsellors are also responsible for managing crises as they arise, answering crisis calls, and communicating clinical information to the full-time therapists while adhering to Stonehenge's Therapeutic Community Concepts and Federal and Provincial Guidelines for Parole.

I was asked to join a collaborative project between Laurier's Movement Disorders Research Centre and a Psychotherapist at Laurier. This project aims to examine and try to improve 'freezing' behaviours in individuals with Parkinson's diagnoses. Research counsellors are a team of student counsellors who have agreed to provide free CBT counselling to individuals with Parkinson's diagnoses. The CBT intervention is aimed at challenging anxiety symptoms to relieve the freezing behaviours.

Carizon is a large agency that provides a variety of services to children, adolescents and adults, and offers services in collaboration with agencies such as Women's Crisis Services and the Family Violence Project. Interns are responsible for providing counselling to individuals, co-facilitating psycho-educational and therapeutic groups as well as participating in Carizon's walk-in counselling clinic, which provides brief solution-focused therapeutic services to individuals as needed. I took on a project of 'refreshing' a long-standing program to ensure that the material was still relevant to current clients. For instance, this program focused on an older model of domestic violence - the program materials have been expanded to include non-traditional relationships and instances of violence outside of romantic relationships.

Brantford, Ontario

The LEAF Program is a department within the university that focuses on teaching international students academic English before they transfer into undergraduate classes. Duties include running programming for new arrivals, intake of new students and other duties as assigned within Laurier International. This role also required the use of many communications and data management systems such as Ellucian, Cognos and SPSS. I was responsible for running the 'LEAF Student Council' which encouraged students to take on leaership roles and plan events while improving their English communication skills. I was also responsible for managing special projects for students, faculty and staff, and communicating information between these groups.

Brantford, Ontario

Responsible for knowing absolutely everything about Laurier’s Brantford Campus, andeffectively sharing that information with prospective students, parents, and faculty. Alsoresponsible for keeping aware of current university affairs and maintaining a large knowledgebase of programs and extracurricular activities.

In charge of running, organizing and coordinating LSFL’s five subcommittees. Also acting as aliaison for LSFL and the Students’ Union, ensuring that LSFL is in line with the Students’ Union’smission statement of providing a valuable service to all Laurier Students.

Cross-trained in all locations with the ability to quickly jump from one task to another.

Responsible for scheduling and maintenance of the swim program (2012), provided support for younger staff (2012)

Responsible for upholding the City's high standards of health, safety and instruction. Left to pursue post-secondary education.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Theology: Spiritual Care And Psychotherapy

Activities and Societies: Graduate Students' Association Two year program with an intensive clinical and multicultural focus and lengthy.

Certificate, American Sign Language

Honours Bachelor Of Arts, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Wilfrid Laurier Student's Union Notable courses include 'Positive Psychology,' 'Abnormal Psychology' and 'Social.

Diploma, Pre-Health Sciences

Certificate, Management And Leadership