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As an Associate Professor and practising Counselling Psychologist, I consider myself both a clinician/practitioner and social science researcher. While my degrees have been completed in the Rhodes University Faculty of Humanities, my postdoctoral work has taken place in the University of Cape Town Department of Psychiatry, within the Faculty of Health Sciences allowing me valuable cross-disciplinary exposure.
Having started my career as a Psychometrist and Lay Counsellor, I completed my professional training as a Counselling Psychologist in 2009 with an internship at the Rhodes Psychology Clinic and the Student Counselling Centre. I received the Judge Philip Schock Scholarship which assisted towards funding my MA. I was particularly drawn to relational psychotherapy, and gained experience working with children using non-directive play therapy and adults in individual and couples therapy modalities. My masters research projects were qualitatively focused prompting me to develop interview, observation and focus group facilitation skills, as well a familiarity with case study methodology. I produced my first peer-reviewed publication from my masters thesis on the therapeutic value of repetitive symbolic play in non-directive play therapy.
Directly after completing my MA, I registered for my PhD which focused on translating and adapting the CORE-OM, a measure of general distress and dysfunction, into isiXhosa. I received an Andrew Mellon Citizen Scholarship to fund my PhD studies, and was also selected to participate in the South Africa Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD) Pre-Doctoral Programme. My PhD exposed me to crucial debates in the assessment field about the problems associated with universal applications of psychiatric nosology, the role of idioms of distress and explanatory illness models in symptom presentation and treatment, and the value of the cultural formulation. During my PhD I combined qualitative and more quantitative skills using a psychometric approach in a mixed methods research design.
Towards the end of my PhD I received a South Africa- VU University Amsterdam - Strategic Alliance (SAVUSA) scholarship to attend the University of Tilburg and the University of Amsterdam as a visiting scholar. I was also selected to participate in the Emerging Psychologist Programme at the International Congress of Psychology in Cape Town 2012, where I presented my PhD research. As a result of my PhD I was able to produce three publications that provided South African normative data for the CORE-OM and CORE-GP English versions and a validation of the CORE-OM Xhosa language version. During this time I also joined the Psychological Association of South Africa (PsySSA) and later the PsySSA Counselling Psychology division, as vice-chair. I developed a passionate interest for the professional practice and identity of counselling psychology.
In 2013 I moved to Cape Town and joined the University of Cape Town Psychiatry Department as a research fellow. Funded by World Health Organization, I co-ordinated South African field studies evaluating the clinical utility of proposed ICD-11 revisions to diagnostic criteria for sexuality-related conditions. In 2014 I received a URC Post-doctoral Fellowship from the University of Cape Town and joined the Genomics of Schizophrenia in South African Xhosa people (SAX) study, funded by the United States National Institute of Mental Health. I led work on the ethics of psychiatric genomics and culturally specific explanatory illness models pertaining to schizophrenia and its related symptoms, in our study sample. My 5 year post-doctoral fellowship was an extremely productive time for me in terms of outputs and publications as I gained experience with international collaborations and funding agencies. Currently, I’m a collaborator on a United Kingdom Wellcome Trust project that explores the contribution African philosophy and knowledge could make in the field of global mental health.
Over the years I’ve continued to grow my psychotherapy practice with a focus on relational psychotherapy and most recently completed my clinical training in Imago and Emotionally-Focused Psychotherapies. My psychotherapy approach draws from shorter term solution-focused and cognitive behaviour therapy models and longer term psychodynamic principles
I have been invited to present my work for the Global Public Mental Health Programme at Columbia University in New York and the Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine Conference in Cape Town in 2016. I have also been a member of the H3Africa Ethics and Community Engagement Working Group and the African Ethics Working Group on Neuropsychiatric Genomics.
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