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Brooke N. Seal, Ph.D.

Dr. Seal is a postdoctoral fellow and therapist at the DBT Centre of Vancouver. She completed her bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of British Columbia and her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her clinical training has been focused on evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques to treat a range of psychological difficulties. While in Texas, Dr. Seal worked in juvenile detention centres, university clinics, a private practice clinic, and a university medical training hospital. She completed her clinical psychology internship with Vancouver Coastal Health, working with dual-diagnosis inpatients at the Concurrent Disorders Intervention Unit at UBC Hospital, patients at the Anxiety Disorders Clinic, and women at the Eating Disorders Unit at Saint Paul's Hospital. She also conducted assessments in the VGH Emergency Department and individual and couples therapy at the Sexual Medicine Clinic. Dr. Seal has presented her research at conferences worldwide and has published several research articles and book chapters. Her research has been focused on the impact of self-awareness on sexual functioning, and she has recently been involved in an investigation of the impact of cognitive-behavioural therapy and mindfulness on sexual functioning among people with a history of childhood sexual abuse. Finally, Dr. Seal has been involved in teaching undergraduate statistics labs, clinical psychology graduate assessment courses, and medical student clinical skills training seminars. She has also mentored several undergraduate students in their research and theses projects. She is currently a sessional instructor at Simon Fraser University, where she teaches a course on empirically supported treatments to third-year undergraduate psychology students.

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