MA, Doctoral Candidate
Clinical & Counselling Psychology,
University of Toronto - OISE
Canada
Sandra
Osazuwa
As a Doctoral Candidate and Vanier Scholar (2021), I advocate for inclusive, accessible, and responsive mental health care for underserved communities. My work focuses on how race, ethnicity, and culture intersect to influence service access and wellness outcomes, emphasizing exploring innovative treatments.
Guided by grassroots approaches, I prioritize using a person-centred perspective in my research and clinical practice. This process involves meaningfully engaging with individuals’ voices and lived experiences to create effective strategies that leverage their values and strengths to address their diverse needs. I extend this humanistic approach to my clinical training when working with patients who have concurrent disorders. My professional goal is to bridge the gap in mental healthcare equity by providing holistic and practical solutions that can be used across community and hospital settings.
“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
- Chinua Achebe (Author)
Areas of Training
Research
The Intersections of Race, Culture and Mental Health
Mental Health Equity
- Culturally Integrative Psychotherapy
- Critical Mental Heath & Race Theory
- Global & Local/ Indigenous Psychologies
- Africentric Approaches: African Healing Traditions
- Multicultural Counselling (Diversity & Inclusion)
Clinical
Practicum & Professional Experience
Community & Outpatient Hospital Care
- Concurrent Disorders
- Interpersonal Difficulties and Life Transitions
- Underserved Communities (i.e. BIPOC, LGBTQ2+)
- Holistic & Humanistic
- Evidence & Trauma-Informed
Publications
Article:
Bhuyan et al. (2023) “Unless we are Native, we are all immigrants to Canada”: Tensions between multicultural inclusion and settler-colonial consciousness among Canadian social workers
Article:
Osazuwa & Moodley (2023) 'Will there be a willingness to actually engage with it?': Exploring Attitudes Towards Culturally Integrative Psychotherapy Among Canada's African Community
Book Chapter:
Moodley & Osazuwa (2020) "Configurations of Race, Culture and Mental Health"
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