Education & Credentials

Nesrine is currently a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at Concordia University, where she also completed a master’s thesis on mother-child interactions and externalizing behaviours. Throughout her academic journey at Concordia University and McGill University, she has received several awards and scholarships for her academic and research achievements, including doctoral fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec. She has contributed to peer reviewed publications on eating disorders and has presented her research at both national and international conferences.

Training & Experiences

Nesrine has completed practica at the Child Psychiatry Department of the Jewish General Hospital and the Applied Psychology Center at Concordia University. In these roles, she completed psychoeducational assessments with children presenting with ADHD, learning disorders, intellectual disabilities, emotion regulation difficulties, and anxiety. She has also provided individual therapy to teens and young adults for concerns such as anxiety, depression, perfectionism, and disordered eating.

Current Work

Nesrine is currently a practicum student at Elevate Psychotherapy and Wellness Clinic, working under the supervision of Dr. Jenilee Napoleon, where she offers individual therapy and assessments to children, adolescents, and young adults facing a wide range of emotional and behavioral difficulties. Her clinical interests include providing therapy for trauma-related, eating, anxiety, mood, obsessive compulsive, and personality disorders and conducting assessments for neurodevelopmental and psychoeducation difficulties. Her main therapeutic modalities are Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She is fluent in both French and English.