BA (Honours), University of Western University
Research interests
Sarena is a graduate student in the clinical psychology program at the University of Waterloo. She is working under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Oakman as part of the Psychological Intervention Research Team. Her research addresses the question of how therapy works by examining mechanisms that lead to improvement in psychotherapy, including the therapeutic alliance and emotional processing. She is currently interested in methodological issues within observational coding systems used in psychotherapy research. She is also involved in research on emotion-focused interventions for youth and caregivers.
Sarena received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, where she served as the editor-in-chief of the Western Undergraduate Psychology Journal.
Three-minute thesis talk
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University Finals, People’s Choice Award (2020)
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Arts Department, 2nd Place (2020)