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The Journey: Becoming a Therapist
(2012)
The purpose of this study was to explore the personal and professional experience of a counselling psychology graduate intern on her journey to becoming a therapist. The aim is to contribute to the sparse research on the ...
A Thesis as a Ceremony of Voice
(2011)
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the author's process of finding authentic self as a First Nation's person in graduate school. The study is framed using a traditional Blackfoot method, a post-colonial auto ethnographic ...
Exploring Childbearing, Birth, and Motherhood Following a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse
(2011)
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is widespread and can have long lasting effects. Childbearing, birth, and motherhood are milestones in a woman‘s life that have been known to revive issues related to a history of CSA. This ...
The Space Between: My Rediscovery of Play as an Adult Through Clowning
(2011)
In considering the embodiment of adult play I find it necessary to consider what play is and research my own relationship to its embodiment in myself. My relationship to my body and its slow journey back to play, including ...
Inner Journey of a Developing Therapist: Self and Relational Shifts that Touch Spiritual, Personal, and Professional Domains
(2010)
This thesis addresses the inner changes I have experienced during my training in the counselling psychology program at City University of Seattle. Using heuristic research methods, I address spiritual and experiential ...
Snap Crackle and Pop, Changing Midlife Relationships
(2010)
This manuscript is the result of my personal midlife search to change relationships with family, friends, and men. The experiences and outcome of my one-year commitment is written in an autobiographical voice combined with ...
Intergenerational and Inner Conflict in Young Female Immigrants from the Middle East: My Story
(2011)
Acculturation impacts the lives and well-being of immigrants and their families. When families immigrate, the acculturation process of parents and children may take a different course and take place at a different pace. ...
First Generation Chinese Canadians and Parental Career Expectations; My Story
(2010)
Using autoethnography, this thesis explores how immigrant Chinese Canadian youth and adult children respond to parental pressure when their chosen career path is contrary to their parents‘ wishes. Data sources include ...
Childhood Loss, Attachment, and Pathways to Growth: A Personal Growth Process
(2016)
In this thesis, I will present my own personal experience with childhood loss and grief as it has impacted my life, through my adolescence and into my adulthood. Using autoethnography as a method of research inquiry, I ...
Three Seasons of Change: Connecting Life, School and Learning About the Art of Counselling
(2016-06)
This is a narrative of personal experiences, thoughts and understandings that occurred while I was a graduate student in counselling psychology. While learning to become a counsellor I experienced a significant life event, ...