Fatmah Jahim

Compassionate, client-focused and service-oriented student therapist with extensive experience in the mental health field, specifically in trauma, psychosis, eating disorders, psycho-oncology and domestic violence. Passionately serving clients facing distress or mental health concerns. Culturally sensitive, proven to quickly develop trust and rapport with clients. Accomplished at fostering meaningful relationships and developing effective short-term and long-term plans to achieve client goals.

Crisis Responder  09/2021 to 01/2023
The Distress Centers of Greater Toronto, North York, ON

• Practicing Solution-Focused Brief Therapy techniques with callers who have a range of physical and mental health related concerns, such as depression, mood disorders, anxiety, suicidal ideation, disabilities, poverty and housing issues, aging, etc.

Volunteer Counsellor 12/2021 to 05/2023
The Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, Toronto
• Providing one-on-one settlement support to refugees and asylum seekers and their families for settlement and integration related issues
• Providing trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, counseling and mental health support to refugee and immigrant clients 

Support Group Facilitator 05/2021 to 06/2022
The Hospital for Sick Children, OPACC, Toronto, ON
• Co-facilitating weekly drop-in support group meetings and teaching mindfulness skills, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance and emotion-focused coping techniques using evidence based findings

• Developing and presenting evidence based mental health workshops and presenting them to families of children diagnosed with cancer

Companionship Caller  03/2022 to 04/2023
Mood Disorders Society of Canada, ON
• Providing emotional support to to veteran clients and their families and providing them with person-centered, trauma informed counseling and supporting them with various mental health concerns such as PTSD, trauma by providing them with emotional and tangible support

Coordinator & Contributing Writer 09/2020 to 06/2022
The Trauma & Mental Health Report, Toronto, ON

• Produced articles on Psychology Today and The Trauma & Mental Health Report Magazine under the supervision of Dr. Robert Muller. Conducted non-structured interviews with clinical psychologists and mental health professionals for the purpose of content creation.
• Coordinated Arts and Culture content for the magazine, providing constructive feedback to the team and editing while also training new Arts and Culture coordinators.

Team Lead & Workshop Facilitator, 07/2020-06/2021
Luminate Mental Health Conference Series, York University, Toronto
• Facilitated mental health workshops for undergraduate students alongside mental health professionals ;including workshops on stress and burn out, and self compassion and resilience

Research Assistant & Thesis Student, 06/2020-05-2022

Eating, Affect & Self-Evaluation Lab, York University, ON September June 2020- May 2022 (Supervised by Dr. Jennifer Mills)

• Contributed to qualitative study examining social comparison, eating habits and body image and engaged in various presentations that examine risk and maintenance factors for eating disorders
• Conducted a qualitative study examining an eating disorder, Orthorexia and social factors and analyzed study by completing a mediation and regression analysis and presented research findings at academic conferences : Canadian Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science (Washington)

Research Assistant 

Psychosocial Oncology Lab, York University, ON November 2019-January 2022 (Supervised by Dr. Karen Fergus)
• Co-assisted in the execution of a couples intervention ’Couple Links” for women with breast-cancer and their partners

Research Assistant 

Southlake Regional Health Centre – Young Adult Eating Disorders Clinic, Newmarket, 08/2019-06/2020 (Supervised By Dr. Jessica Van Exan)

• coordinated and organized patients' files for program evaluation in an outpatient clinical care setting

• Applying Compassion-Focused Approached to Trauma - Centre for Mindbody Health. December 2023.

• First Aid & CPR Training. ADET. May 2023
• Mental Health First Aid Training. Mental Health Commission of Canada. October 2022.
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training. Canadian Mental Health Association. October 2022

• Motivational Interviewing and Supportive Counseling. Ontario Association for ACT & FACT. June, 2022

• Supporting Clients Living with Acquired Brain Injury or Developmental Delay on ACT. Ontario Association for ACT & FACT.

• Suicide Risk Assessment. The Distress Centre of Greater Toronto. August, 2021