Student Clinician At The Oise Psychology Clinic
Toronto, Canada Area
• Provided psychotherapy for a diverse population of students, struggling primarily with generalized anxiety, social anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, effectively helping students improve quality of life, in the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, existential and social dimensions of their lives.• Coached students with ADHD, significant deficits in executive functioning, and academic stress, leading to marked improvement in the areas of discipline, impulse control, emotional regulation, time management, daily task organization and self-advocacy.• Implemented digital minimalism strategies with students on their smart-technologies (phone/TV/tablet/laptop usage), leading to a significant reduction of excessive, unhealthy screen time usage and avoidant habits (personally and interpersonally) leading to greater levels of self-esteem and confidence.• Guided students lacking a sense of personal purpose and professional direction, assisting them in clarifying their values and crystalize their professional goals, while becoming more self-aware of strengths and difficulties, as all as their own sense of meaning and or spirituality. • Received weekly individual and group supervision, allowing for professional and peer feedback, as well as the opportunity to present clinical work during weekly case conferences, client case studies, and video recordings of our therapy sessions. • Prefer an integrative approach to counselling, primarily using traditional and third wave cognitive and behavioral therapies (ACT in particular), with an emphasis on positive psychotherapy (PPT).