- Under the supervision of Dr. Maureen Whittal, provide treatment for anxiety and mood-spectrum disorders primarily involving different variations of OCD in addition to Social Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety, Perfectionism, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Phobias, and Depression. - Well versed in utilizing evidence based therapeutic interventions rooted in CBT (ERP), MBCT, ACT, RO-DBT and MI for ambivalent clients. - Collaborated with healthcare professionals to guide clinical interventions for complex case management. - Conducted Class B assessments as required to determine treatment plan more effectively.- Maintained client notes and provided informed consent, confidentiality agreements, and release of information paperwork.

- Provided up to four 1-1, 45 minute advising sessions per day to undergraduate or graduate students on the topic of career exploration, networking, resume/cover letter coaching, graduate school applications, interview preparation, and job search strategies to assist the student in meeting their professional career goals.- Developed and facilitated workshops on career/general stress management to groups of students of up to 120 with powerpoint, which served to educate students on the benefits of progressive muscle relaxation, guided visualizations, behavioural activation, and positive reframing of negative thoughts that inhibit students from achieving their goals. - Utilized career-counselling theory interventions informed by Holland’s RIASEC models, chaos theory, planned happenstance, positive uncertainty, fixed vs growth mindset, and Norm Amundson’s Hope Centered Approach.- Worked with students from a variety of different cultural background and disabilities by providing counselling and other UBC referrals to meet the client’s needs.

- Providing counselling to a caseload of up to 29 students through the use of interventions rooted in CBT, ACT, and Mindfulness primarily, resulting in decreased self reported symptoms contributing to anxiety (GAD7), depression (PHQ9), and academic performance (student transcripts). - Created and facilitated counselling groups designed to reduce student anxiety, depression, and OCD related symptoms. - Collaborated with medical professionals (psychiatrists, mental health nurses, psychologists) in complex case management to create integrated treatment plans or external referrals for students with involved needs. - Managed effective case notes and utilized results from medical tests to inform treatment plan for the client, while maintaining informed consent and con- Planned and took part in strategy implementation of SFU’s mandate to increase marginalized LGBTTQ student’s access of counselling services.

- Provided homeless, at-risk youth with crisis counselling and immediate medical, legal, shelter, and detox referrals within the drop-in space.- This included effectively de-escalating upset/aggravated youth who may have severe mental illness or may be under the influence of drugs using various counselling/crisis management skills.- Provided outreach support to homeless youth on the street by distributing food and escorting youth to various health, legal, and financial appointments. This includes visiting youth and providing support in hospitals, shelters, and detox/treatment centers.- Efficiently liaised with other professionals and coordinating services to provide the best care and support for the youth as possible. - Provided valuable insight and support to LGBTQ youth via organizational partnerships such as Vancouver’s Health Initiative for Men (HIM), YouthCo, and QMUNITY. - Effective boundary settings skills when asking homeless youth to follow rules or leave the space if they are being aggressive or disruptive.

- Effectively conducted structured and semi-structured standard intake assessments (presenting problem(s), differential diagnoses, current and past adjustment) with new clients, and explained confidentiality and its limits at the beginning of the session.- Created case formulations on client’s presenting problem(s) and used clinical judgement in constructing and following a treatment plan based on the client’s needs.- Worked with clients presenting with panic disorder, generalized anxiety, and interpersonal trauma facilitating psychoeducation on the CBT triangle, the intolerance towards uncertainty model, and the ways avoidance and safety behaviours play a role in perpetuating anxiety. Effectively facilitated the creation of a SUDs hierarchy and proceeded with ERP and behavioural experiments to continue treatment. - Supervised in affective and mindfulness based interventions, focusing on present moment experiential awareness of thoughts, feelings, and sensations.

- Collected subjective and physiological data on sexual arousal patterns in a carefully monitored environment using BIOPac system (penile plethysmography). This includes care, calibration, and cleaning of equipment.- Completed literature review on gender and sexual identity formation and wrote subsequent paper on the intersections of asexuality and the non-binary gender formation that frequently occurs alongside it. - Facilitated study explanation and debriefing, in addition to screening participant’s study qualifications through a phone interview and distinguishing between chronic low desire and asexuality.- Experienced in coding free-response demographic data within asexual populations, specifically involving the analysis of 1500+ responses from previous surveys and writing a manuscript on asexual identification labels regarding sex, gender, sexual orientation and romantic orientation.- Ran descriptive statistic analyses on survey data and organized thousands of entries in search of patterns for publication.- Assisted with NSERC and CIHR grant applications for lab funding.

- Completed undergraduate thesis on the correlations between religiosity and sociosexual behaviour.- Additional research completed investigating the experience of participant's experience of sexual identity formation, how gender minorities experience mental health struggles from associated stigma, and their experience of how their family supports them with their mental health treatment. - Conducted quantitative data analyses by analyzing a pool of 600+ students using Syntax via SPSS and standard analysis measures.- Experience includes but not limited to: descriptive statistics, transformations, t tests, ANOVAs and MANOVAs, correlations and regressions, and reliability.- Conducted additional qualitative research via 2 hour long semi-structured interviews followed by transcribing and coding data with a thematic analysis.

- Provided crisis intervention, support, and customized resource referrals to youth, adults, and seniors with varying levels of mental health presentation and dysregulation. - Provided supervision to train new crisis line volunteers by shadowing and providing feedback on observed calls, in addition to facilitating workshops on active listening, paraphrasing, suicide risk assessment, risk assessment, and advanced empathy. - Went through structured assessment to determine degree of suicide risk and lethality of means in order to provide support required to maintain client safety. - Documenting and creating objective call reports and follow up call logs while maintaining confidentiality.- Consulted and debriefed with Crisis Centre staff regarding challenging calls including suicide, child abuse, self-harm, and violence (including homicide).- Liaised with various support networks in the Greater Vancouver Area and Tri-City area, connecting clients to various services relating but not limited to mental health counselling, addiction, finance, housing, legal, medical, and family support. - Coordinated various interventions with parademics, police, posion control, and Yankee20 to provide immediate support for high-risk level clients. - 106 hours of skill development training and skill monitoring.

- Provided personalized 1-1 career advising support to provide professional development opportunities through volunteer opportunities located in the local greater Vancouver area to international countries. - Organized and ran two successful volunteer fairs, which included both old and new volunteer organization partners.

- Responsible for the welfare of 34 students and assisted with first year transition.- Developed and conducted programs on mental health literacy and stress management, diversity, chemical abuse, personal development, relationships, security, and academic performance.- Provided peer support and coaching to residents in emotional distress and referred appropriately to best support the student's level of need.

- Worked with Residence Life Managers implementing new standards and programming requirements for the upcoming school year.- Supported in the creation of the mental health initiative plan, a document outlining how residence life staff is able to support students through mental health struggles and how to refer to resources that could support them. - Created training workshops on creative programming/marketing and California State University standards policy for new incoming advisors.

- Liaising with the Harvard University committee over monthly Skype meetings with updates and planning.- Responsible for allocating and training 200+ volunteers as Pages, Logistics Members, and AssistantCoordinators with the help of 4 Coordinators and a Director.- Organizing approximately 400 applications and assigning volunteers to the positions they would best thrivein, as well as scheduling during the 5-day conference period.- Outreach to the UBC student body as well as its organizations, clubs, and faculty groups (along with otheruniversities) and local high schools.- Working with the core UBC Host Committee of 30 individuals to ensure that details are finalized andeverything runs smoothly during the conference.- Boosting moral and making sure the volunteers are enjoying their experience with Model UN.

- Recruited political science students from UBC to submit their empirically validated research papers by making announcements in classrooms, placing posters in common areas, and through targeting social media posts.- Editing essays (between 2500-3500 words in length) while working with the writers to meet the publication requirements.

- Responsible for allocating and assigning all volunteers for Vancouver Pride 2011. Including preparation of volunteer logistics (roles and numbers needed) for the events.- Conduct training and expectation seminars for volunteers looking to get involved with Vancouver Pride.- Facilitating training for Team Leaders on micro managing other volunteers during larger Pride events.- Supervising between 30 – 250 volunteers depending on the event, and responding to any issues that may arise in the process.- Presenting in both public and ESL schools about opportunities with Vancouver Pride.- Working efficiently in high stress situations and improvising when any problems occurred.