Dr. Seal received her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia (2002), and her MA (2005) and PhD (2009) in clinical psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. The UT Austin Clinical Psychology Graduate Program ranked #10 in the 2020 US News and World Report, placing it in the top 4% of clinical programs in the United States. Dr. Seal completed her clinical residency through Vancouver Coastal Health in 2009 and a post-doctoral program with the DBT Centre of Vancouver in 2010. Her education focused on psychological assessment, individual and group therapy for a range of difficulties, research, and teaching and mentoring.

Dr. Seal has provided assessment and treatment in a range of clinical settings throughout Vancouver (the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at UBC Hospital, Emergency Psychiatric Services at Vancouver General Hospital, the Concurrent Disorders Unit at UBC Hospital, the BC Centre for Sexual Medicine at VGH, the Eating Disorders Program at Saint Paul’s Hospital, and the DBT Centre of Vancouver) and Texas (Psychology Department Training Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin, the Counselling Center at Texas State University, the Seton Medical Center in Austin, the Austin Behavioral Clinic, the Austin Center for Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and juvenile detention centers).

She has experience with a wide range of difficulties including panic attacks, social anxiety, phobias, generalized anxiety, OCD, depression/low mood, psychosis including schizophrenia, trauma, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, problematic alcohol use, ADHD, ASD, school stress and burnout, workplace difficulties, interpersonal difficulties, emotional dysregulation, life transitions, history of self harm and suicidal ideation, and grief and loss.

In addition to clinical work, Dr. Seal has taught assessment skills to graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin, sexual health training skills to medical students at UBC, and several undergraduate courses at SFU (2009-2013) and UFV (2010-present).

She is currently a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of the Fraser Valley where she very much enjoys teaching a range of undergraduate courses (Introduction to Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychological Interventions, History of Psychology). She has also been involved in research at UBC, SFU, UT Austin, and UFV. She has received several scholarships and awards, presented her research at conferences worldwide, and published several research articles.

Dr. Seal received her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia ... Read More