“My role is to work closely with our students to prepare and mentor them so that they are ready to become behavioral health professionals. This process involves formal classroom learning, practicums, mentoring, and professional writing, e.g., capstone, thesis, or dissertation.”
“Teaching has been my interest and passion since I was an undergraduate student. I have always encouraged students to engage with the course materials meaningfully.”
The high standards and expectations that I have for myself are the driving force behind my teaching philosophy.
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change” – Carl Rogers
“For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”- Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“Guided by Adlerian principles, I educate counselors to see people in context — fostering change through connection, equity, and purposeful action.”
“Counselling, or psychotherapy, is a calling, with its students possessing an inborn wisdom. Teaching is helping students use this wisdom to be in service of another, be it for reducing pain or accessing potential.”
“Make sure to struggle out loud so you never have to suffer in silence.”
“Leadership doesn’t exist in a bubble; it exists in our individual and collective lived experiences. Our objective is to provide our students with skills, knowledge, support, and encouragement so they can learn to be the best leaders they can be and grow into the leaders we need today and in the future.”
“My commitment to lifelong learning and striving for excellence in teaching has led me to connect with students in a positive learning environment and prompted me to direct them toward their pursuits in psychology and counselling and making an empowering impact in the lives of their clients.”
“…learning necessarily involves not merely risk, but the pain of giving up a former condition in favor of a new way of seeing things”- Boostrom, 1998, p. 399
“…an isolated increase in knowledge without a consequent change in attitude and behavior is of questionable value”- Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1999, p. 119