Dr. Rose Honar, PsyD, CCC

I attended the University of Saskatchewan and earned my bachelor’s with distinction in Psychology. During my time in undergraduate studies, I was a research assistant for three different psychology labs. Of particular interest, was the clinical psychology lab in which I administered psychological inventories on student participants, assessed counselling videos, and became highly knowledgeable in the study of personality disorders.

My university education continued immediately afterwards, working towards and earning my Doctor of Clinical Psychology (PsyD) degree at Adler University. My years of clinical practice allowed me to work with individuals from all walks of life, at different parts of their journey, providing psychotherapy and psychological assessments. My final year of clinical training, or Pre-doctoral Internship, took place at the Chilliwack Youth Health Centre. Clinical training in this final year consisted of individual, couples, family, and group counselling; psychological and psychoeducational assessments; teaching psycho-educational content to high school classes; providing crisis counselling to victims of natural disasters in British Columbia; providing supervision to Master’s level counsellors-in-training.

My dissertation studied the treatment of depression in Iranian adults, assessing the importance of cultural context in the experience of depression, and the critical need for non-pathologizing and culturally-informed practice in the treatment for depression. Cultural competence continues to be an important aspect of my clinical practice, and is a facet of lifelong learning.

Though my clinical training allowed me to work with individuals ranging in age from early childhood to older adulthood, a specialization of mine continues to be working with individuals in the Emerging Adulthood (aged 18-29) age range. The “quarter-life crisis” can be a time of peer comparison, self-doubt, identity re-navigation, relational changes, dating difficulties, major life milestones or transitions. This developmental stage work continues to be immensely rewarding for myself, providing guidance during what can feel like an unstructured time.

In addition to providing psychotherapy, part of my work also includes providing regular consultations and training to Master’s level counsellors completing their psychotherapy practicums.

Currently, I am registered as a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA).