People
Board of Directors
Dr. Laura Armstrong – Co-director
Dr. Buuma Maisha – Co-director
Louis Perron – Head of Research Ethics Committee
Members of the Centre and Research Interests
Laura Armstrong, PhD
larmstrong@ustpaul.ca
- D.R.E.A.M. (Developing Resilience through Emotions, Attitudes & Meaning): the program aims to develop resilience in intellectually gifted children by building meaning through the use of music, games, drama, and artistic activities
- Intellectually Gifted Children
- Child Assessment Measure Development and Validation
- R.E.A.L: Rational-Emotive Attachment-based Logotherapy for Families, a Second Wave Positive Psychology Approach
- Child & Youth mental health
- Psychotherapy and Counselling
- Spirituality/Meaning
- Knowledge Translation-Integrated Methodology for Program Development and Evaluation, Measure Development
Christian Bellehumeur, PhD
cbellehumeur@ustpaul.ca
- Imaginary and Counselling/Psychotherapy
- Positive Psychology and Spirituality
- Supervision and Psychotherapists’ Training
- Resilience and Human Development
Cynthia Bilodeau, PhD
cbilodeau@ustpaul.ca
- Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Clinical Supervision
- Spirituality
- Coping
- Chronic Illness
- Anxiety and Depression
Terry Lynn Gall, PhD
- Health Psychology
- Psychology of Religion
- Stress
- Spirituality and coping with life stress
- Religious and spiritual coping in breast cancer
Sotiria Grafanaki, PhD
sgrafanaki@ustpaul.ca
- Impacts of deep silence and natural pause on personal development, conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Identifying resources that help to ‘pause and listen’ for vulnerable groups and communities. Development of practical applications for promoting personal and community well-being.
- Therapist and supervisor development in the early years
- Spirituality and therapist development
- Case study, Qualitative Interviewing, Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR)
- Client and therapist experience of therapy (Psychotherapy Process Research)
- Exploration of the concept of congruence or genuineness in therapeutic interactions
- Characteristics of transformational experiences and conditions that support transformation and Flow (Positive Psychology)
- Building bridges between counselling practices and community development actions
- Reflexivity and Reflexive Practice
Kelley Kilrea, PhD
- Spirituality
- Transpersonal Psychology
- Humanistic Psychology
- Spiritual Enlightenment
- Applied Sport Psychology Consultancy
Chantale Lussier, PhD
- Mental Performance
- Dance Education and the Creative Experience
- Performance Anxiety
Buuma Maisha, PhD
bmaisha@ustpaul.ca
- Sociocultural Norms (sexual taboos)
- Trauma (Sexual Violence and Culture-Driven Interpersonal Violence)
- Self-Image and Image of Other
- “Relationship Focused Therapy: R-STO” and Trauma Healing
Judith Malette, PhD
jmalette@ustpaul.ca
- Spirituality and religiousness
- Post-traumatic Growth
- God Images and Resilience
- Life Review
- Aging
- Palliative Care
- Sexual Abuse/Violence
Ramon Martinez, PhD (Th.), ThD, PsyD
rmartinez@ustpaul.ca
- Counselling
- Spirituality and Religiosity
- Christian Anthropology
- Human Development and the Experience of God
- Death and Afterlife
- Relationship between Philosophy, Psychology and Theology
- Religious Experience
- Shame and Suicide
- Religion and Violence
- Healing from Sexual Abuse
- Healing and Empowerment
Martin Rovers, PhD
- Counselling
- Psychological Assessment
- Psychopathology
- Psychotherapeutic Processes
- Developmental Psychology
- Spirituality
- Family of Origin Research
- Inter-partner Touch in Couple Counselling
Stephanie Wiebe
swiebe@ustpaul.ca
- Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Couples
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
Stéphanie Yamin, PhD
syamin@ustpaul.ca
- Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Program Evaluation
- Interventions for Vulnerable Populations
- Aging and Driving
