Ashley Melvin 
 Student Academic Placement

Ashley joined Waypoint as a Student Academic Placement in 2022, where she provides support to our Research Scientists. She is currently working towards completing her Honours Bachelor of Counselling Psychology at Georgian College, where she developed a keen interested in interpersonal and relational dynamics. Ashley is currently preparing to write her undergraduate thesis, which will be focused on intimate partner violence. At the same time Ashley is a Psychometrist in a local private practice clinic working largely with Indigenous Youth.

Outside or work and school, Ashley enjoys volunteering and actively serves on a distress phone/text line for LGTBQIA+ individuals.

Keywords: counselling psychology, psychometrist, intimate partner violence.

Research Interests

-        Intimate partner violence in LGBTQIA+ populations; risk assessment; work-related posttraumatic stress; patient-oriented research; attachment; developmental psychology.

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