ECPS Doctoral Student, Natasha Wawrykow
Congratulations to Natasha on being awarded the following:
University of British Columbia Doctoral Fellowship, 2015
University of British Columbia Cordula and Gunter Paetzold Fellowship, 2015
Harry E. Taylor Canadian Indigenous Graduate Prize in Education, 2015
Verna J. Kirkness (Ni-jing-jada) Award, 2015
In 2012, Natasha Wawrykow started her M.A. in Counselling Psychology at UBC and completed the program in two years. She completed her master’s practicum at Surrey Memorial Hospital, Mental Health & Substance Use Services, Adult Short-Term Assessment and Treatment. Her master’s thesis investigated an anxiety reduction program for Aboriginal children. Natasha has been awarded research grants from the Canadian Institute of Health Research at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
During the completion of her Bachelor of Arts (Honours), at the University of Victoria, she was a research assistant in the Visual Cognition Laboratory, and completed two field placements at the Royal Jubilee Hospital: (a) Geriatric Psychiatric Ward, and (b) Schizophrenic Youth Transition Home. Her B.A. honours thesis investigated the effects of an intervention program on automatic and voluntary social-emotion processes for individuals on the autism spectrum. Natasha’s thesis was awarded the Canadian Psychological Association Award of Academic Excellence.
This January, Natasha began the Counselling Psychology Doctoral Program. This term, her focus is on cognitive, academic, and social & emotional assessment. Her doctoral thesis aims to investigate Aboriginal client’s experience of using the validationgram (Ishiyama, 1995) in therapeutic sessions. Natasha’s clinical focus will include inter-generational trauma and anxiety reduction with Aboriginal populations.