Teaching and Supervision

Current Senior Supervisor Role

  • Simrit Sanghera – MA supervisor. Working on proposal
  • Helen Lui – MA supervisor. Working on data analysis.

Current Co-Supervisor Role

  • Naureen Sikder. MA co-supervisor with Dr. Elina Birmingham. Working on proposal.

Master's Theses Supervisees

  • Katie Lysakowski. Death socialization: How intercultural parents work together to help their children understand death. Defended April, 2025
  • Shanzey Altaf. Negotiating the transfer of cultural values across generations in Sough Asian families. Defended, March 2025.
  • Samantha Spence. What stories do urban Indigenous youth adults have to share about accessing and maintaining connections to mainstream mental health counselling. Defended November, 2024.
  • Darcie Brown. Voices of Self-Compassion in Parents of Twice-Exceptional Children. Trinity Western University. Defended September, 2019.

Graduated Students:

  • Francis Tombu. (2025). MA committee member. A Transdiagnostic Approach to Psychopathology: Examining Empirical Support for Nolen-Hoeksema and Watkins’ Logical Heuristic in the Extant Literature
  • Alex Vanderveen. (2024).  MA committee member. Understanding competence: Queer-and trans-affirming counselling in Canada.
  • Adrianna Faliszewski (2023). MA committee member.  Embodiment beyond transition: Psychometric evaluation of the experiences of embodiment scale with transgender women and transfeminine people.
  • Mel Voulgaris (2022). MA committee member. Beyond mindfulness Mondays in high schools: An emergent mindfulness practice toward embodied wisdom.
  • Nicole Karr (2021).  MA Committee member. “It’s just so powerful to have somebody know you…”: The experiences of Indigenous youth and non-indigenous educators in teacher-student relationships