Counselling Psychology Applicants 2022 CANADA

[Pizza Ovenz]

Just a quick update - received my official offer on sgs for UofT about an hour ago. It came through an email. 

Good luck to everyone! 

Edited April 13, 2022 by Pizza Ovenz

[MHTherapy]

6 minutes ago, Pizza Ovenz said:

Just a quick update - received my official offer on sgs for UofT about an hour ago. It came through an email. 

Good luck to everyone! 

Congrats! Would you be okay with sharing stats?

[curiousaxel]

7 minutes ago, Pizza Ovenz said:

Just a quick update - received my official offer on sgs for UofT about an hour ago. It came through an email. 

Good luck to everyone! 

same! got my acceptance this morning. good luck everyone. 

[MHTherapy]

Congrats to everyone receiving acceptances!!! If you’re comfortable please do share your stats so the rest of us can gauge the likeliness of being accepted. Thanks! 

[Pizza Ovenz]

Thank you sooo much!! 

Of course. 

I have a very diverse background in social service mental health and addictions. 

Experience: 

2 years front line social service working with people ages 15-29 with complex socio-economic barriers. 1 of these years was in program leadership (I was the coordinator of the program). 

2 years in integrated mental health and substance use in mental health community organizations and hospital environments working with adults with mental health and addictions challenges. 

2 years facilitating group counselling sessions for new immigrants and refugees

4 Years volunteering at a distress line. 

References: 

1 professors - who was an advocate and a very strong reference. I would say he was a champion for my success and likely made a huge difference in my application. 

1 manager - my manager at the hospital I work at - who is also a registered therapist. 

Academics - 

BA Psych - York - B+ average (i worked throughout university full time - keeping extremely high marks was challenging)

Addictions and Mental Health grad certificate - Durham College 96% average

 

I hope this helps! Let me know if I can answer anything else or help you with anything else. 

[filmbug]

16 minutes ago, Pizza Ovenz said:

Thank you sooo much!! 

Of course. 

I have a very diverse background in social service mental health and addictions. 

Experience: 

2 years front line social service working with people ages 15-29 with complex socio-economic barriers. 1 of these years was in program leadership (I was the coordinator of the program). 

2 years in integrated mental health and substance use in mental health community organizations and hospital environments working with adults with mental health and addictions challenges. 

2 years facilitating group counselling sessions for new immigrants and refugees

4 Years volunteering at a distress line. 

References: 

1 professors - who was an advocate and a very strong reference. I would say he was a champion for my success and likely made a huge difference in my application. 

1 manager - my manager at the hospital I work at - who is also a registered therapist. 

Academics - 

BA Psych - York - B+ average (i worked throughout university full time - keeping extremely high marks was challenging)

Addictions and Mental Health grad certificate - Durham College 96% average

 

I hope this helps! Let me know if I can answer anything else or help you with anything else. 

Wow, well done and congratulations on your offer! What an impressive resume. May I ask, were you able to the social service and hospital jobs with your Psych BA alone? Or was your certificate quite key to working with these populations? Getting into the field feels a bit of a catch 22 sometimes, as so many places seem to require you to have masters level education in order to get a foot in the door! 

Edited April 13, 2022 by filmbug
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[psyc1818]

31 minutes ago, Pizza Ovenz said:

Thank you sooo much!! 

Of course. 

I have a very diverse background in social service mental health and addictions. 

Experience: 

2 years front line social service working with people ages 15-29 with complex socio-economic barriers. 1 of these years was in program leadership (I was the coordinator of the program). 

2 years in integrated mental health and substance use in mental health community organizations and hospital environments working with adults with mental health and addictions challenges. 

2 years facilitating group counselling sessions for new immigrants and refugees

4 Years volunteering at a distress line. 

References: 

1 professors - who was an advocate and a very strong reference. I would say he was a champion for my success and likely made a huge difference in my application. 

1 manager - my manager at the hospital I work at - who is also a registered therapist. 

Academics - 

BA Psych - York - B+ average (i worked throughout university full time - keeping extremely high marks was challenging)

Addictions and Mental Health grad certificate - Durham College 96% average

 

I hope this helps! Let me know if I can answer anything else or help you with anything else. 

awesome stats! can i ask, how were you able to counsel without a counselling/psychotherapy degree? 

[ManukaHoney]

16 minutes ago, psyc1818 said:

awesome stats! can i ask, how were you able to counsel without a counselling/psychotherapy degree? 

FYI: counselling is very different than therapy. The MeD program allows you to provide therapy. 

You do not need a counselling degree to provide counselling. Recruiters usually look for experience . I’ve actuallly gotten a few interviews for counselling positions and I have a BA in psych. Correct me if i am wrong @Pizza Ovenz

[anxiouspsyc]

Hi everyone! Here are my stats: 

academics:

I am graduating this May with a Bachelor's in Psychology and minor in Behavioural Science and Sociology at McGill, I have a CGPA of 3.8/4.0 a PSYC GPA of 3.95/4.0 and a final year GPA of 4.0/4.0. I am also completing an honours-equivalent thesis. 

For work experience:

• I interned as a Street Outreach Worker at a crisis intervention and active listening centre for 6 months 
• ABA therapist for 6 months 
• workshop facilitator for youth mental health for 6 months 
• mental health case manager for 1 year

For volunteer experience: 

• Volunteered at 2 crisis intervention and active listening centres for about 2 years
• Psychology undergrad association coordinator  for 1 year
• Mental Health Commissioner for my faculty for 6 months
• Research Assistant for 4 different psychology/counselling labs for about 3 years 

For my references: I had my research supervisor for my thesis and my supervisor from my internship 

I had my response to the application question reviewed by 7+ grad students and 2 school career advisors (I think this helped strengthen it!) 

Let me know if there are any more questions ?

Edited April 13, 2022 by anxiouspsyc

[ManukaHoney]

Does anyone mind showing us how the thing on ACORN looks like when you are invited to the program?

[Liloxo]

I dont have an ACORN account, not can I figure out how to make one ... should I be panicking? Do we need this set up at this stage?? sos lol

[slpsych]

58 minutes ago, Liloxo said:

I dont have an ACORN account, not can I figure out how to make one ... should I be panicking? Do we need this set up at this stage?? sos lol

I wouldn't worry too much about ACORN since they seem to be sending out emails and updating portals as well

[MHTherapy]

1 hour ago, Liloxo said:

I dont have an ACORN account, not can I figure out how to make one ... should I be panicking? Do we need this set up at this stage?? sos lol

Honestly you don’t need it but if you really want to set it up call the sgs number and they’ll help you out!

[ManukaHoney]

14 hours ago, Liloxo said:

I dont have an ACORN account, not can I figure out how to make one ... should I be panicking? Do we need this set up at this stage?? sos lol

Anyone with news from OISE today?

[MHTherapy]

5 minutes ago, ManukaHoney said:

Anyone with news from OISE today?

nope nothing as of yet. planning on calling to ask if all acceptances have been sent out or if some more are coming. will keep you all updated!

[ManukaHoney]

Just now, MHTherapy said:

nope nothing as of yet. planning on calling to ask if all acceptances have been sent out or if some more are coming. will keep you all updated!

Yes please & thank you!

[MHTherapy]

26 minutes ago, ManukaHoney said:

Yes please & thank you!

when you called to inquire about applications did you call the oise registrar and student services line? im calling that right now but ive been on hold for like 15 minutes and was wondering if there was a better contact number for this. the number im calling ends with 4300. 

[MHTherapy]

so I called the OISE office but was on hold for 40 minutes (crazy, I know). I tried to call Todd after which was unsuccessful, and then I tried to call the APHD dept which also failed lol. Not sure what to do now but I also sent an email to todd + OISE. Automatic reply said to give them 3 business days to respond - which I do not have the patience for. If anyone has any suggestions please share!

[ManukaHoney]

17 minutes ago, MHTherapy said:

so I called the OISE office but was on hold for 40 minutes (crazy, I know). I tried to call Todd after which was unsuccessful, and then I tried to call the APHD dept which also failed lol. Not sure what to do now but I also sent an email to todd + OISE. Automatic reply said to give them 3 business days to respond - which I do not have the patience for. If anyone has any suggestions please share!

Update: I just got off the phone with OISE, they said they are sending admissions on a rolling basis and they are sending out accpetances every few days. He said most likely decisions have been made but most likely are not sent out yet. (I’m not sure why? I guess techn stuff).  He also told me that we should hear by end of next week, but  maximum end of the month. 

[MHTherapy]

5 minutes ago, ManukaHoney said:

Update: I just got off the phone with OISE, they said they are sending admissions on a rolling basis and they are sending out accpetances every few days. He said most likely decisions have been made but most likely are not sent out yet. (I’m not sure why? I guess techn stuff).  He also told me that we should hear by end of next week, but  maximum end of the month. 

yes I just finished my call too and they told me the same thing. They also looked at my application and said that theres been a decision made by the dept on the 7th but thy have yet to upload it. stressing out like crazy not knowing what to expect.

[ManukaHoney]

Just now, MHTherapy said:

yes I just finished my call too and they told me the same thing. They also looked at my application and said that theres been a decision made by the dept on the 7th but thy have yet to upload it. stressing out like crazy not knowing what to expect.

Omg he told me he cant even look if there is a decision that has been made lol- I hope for some good news for the both of us. I wish I asked how many applicants they are taking

[MHTherapy]

13 minutes ago, ManukaHoney said:

Omg he told me he cant even look if there is a decision that has been made lol- I hope for some good news for the both of us. I wish I asked how many applicants they are taking

mine told me he cant see what the decision is but he can see status updates. im soooooooo stressed i feel like my heart is gonna exit out of my throat. i have absolutely no idea what to expect. wishing you all the best i hope we get some good news before the long weekend so we can enjoy it lol

[MHTherapy]

15 minutes ago, ManukaHoney said:

Omg he told me he cant even look if there is a decision that has been made lol- I hope for some good news for the both of us. I wish I asked how many applicants they are taking

also, did they make it sound like more acceptances were likely to come? mine told me that they were going down a list and likely havent gotten to our names yet but I couldn't gauge whether more acceptances are likely to come or if it might just be rejections now.

[ManukaHoney]

21 minutes ago, MHTherapy said:

also, did they make it sound like more acceptances were likely to come? mine told me that they were going down a list and likely havent gotten to our names yet but I couldn't gauge whether more acceptances are likely to come or if it might just be rejections now.

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Edited April 14, 2022 by ManukaHoney

[ManukaHoney]

Update: I just checked my SGS and saw I was rejected as this was the only program I applied to. I just wish there was a way to get feedback on my application from them.. Feeling totally crushed…

good luck to everyone! 

Edited April 14, 2022 by ManukaHoney