Registered Psychotherapist — 2018 to Present

Private practice, Ontario, Canada

• Providing individual psychotherapy using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Third-wave of CBT, and Clinical Hypnotherapy for adults through in-person and virtual psychotherapy sessions

Registered Psychotherapist | Independent Contractor — 2019 to Present

CBT Associates/MindBeacon, Toronto, Canada
Feel Your Way Therapy, Toronto, Canada

• Providing psychotherapy based on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness-based Therapy psychotherapeutic methods for adults who are suffering from Anxiety disorders, Depressive disorders, Trauma-related disorders (PTSD), Obsessive-Compulsive disorders, Tic disorders, Sleep disturbance, Eating disorders, conflicts in romantic relationships, work-related issues, etc.

Registered Psychotherapist | Independent Contractor — 2019 to 2020

Promed and Life Clinic, Toronto, Canada

Ran psychological assessments, wrote psychological reports, and provided psychotherapy based on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for adults who suffered from motor vehicle accidents (MVA) and Trauma-related disorders (PTSD)

School-based Family Intervention Counsellor — Jan-Jun 2019

Eva’s Initiative, Toronto, Canada

• Provided preventative counselling services to youth at risk of homelessness through relationships at local high schools

Mental Health Counsellor — Jan-Jun 2018

Catholic Centre for Immigrants, Ottawa, Canada

• Provided assessment and clinical counselling, crisis intervention, and information and referral services
• Assisted clients in identifying/clarifying issues, problem-solving, goal-setting, and developing positive coping strategies to deal with various psychosocial issues
• Made improvement in clients’ mental health status after 8 to 12 sessions
• Worked with adults with PTSD, MDD, complicated grief, etc.
• Worked collaboratively with other social service and health providers
• Coordinated service and providing support to colleagues to provide quality services
• Evaluated client progress at the beginning, middle, and end of the program.
• Prepared and provided clinical reports, activity reports, and statistical information as required using OCASI
• Provided and recorded the clients’ records, session notes, and reports using the client management system

Research Coordinator, Researcher (Sabbatical Leave) — 2016-2018

The Royal Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, Ontario

• Ran psychological experiments, questionnaires, and EEG
• Reviewed literature
• Analyzed quantitative psychological data statistically using SPSS
• Analyzed time series data using MATLAB, EEGLAB
• Recruited participants (e.g. Healthy, Depressed, Bipolar) through the Meditech database
• Trained and managed the volunteers
• Arranged meetings and brain imaging sessions appointments

Clinical Psychologist — 2015-2017

Erfan Psychological and counselling Services Centre, Tehran, Iran

• Provided Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for adults with successful results in therapy
• Prepared and delivered workshops on mental health issues

Board Member (Volunteer) — 2015-2017

Anxiety Disorder Association of Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario

• Helped in developing a preventive program for youth’s anxiety

Associate Editor — 2015-2017

Quarterly Journal of Communication Research, Research and Polling Centre of IRIB, Tehran, Iran

Clinical Psychologist — 2012-2015

Omid-e-Mehr Foundation (non-profit), Tehran

• Provided psychotherapy and trauma-focused therapy for Iranian and Afghan youth and young girls and women (traumatized population from poverty, domestic or sexual violence) to empower them
• Tested and analyzed the results of personality and trauma (MILON, MMPI, UCLA Trauma test) and intelligence (WAIS-R) tests
• Delivered workshops on psychological issues for the staff and clients

Clinical Psychologist — 2011-2014

Counselling Center of University of Tehran, Tehran

• Provided psychotherapy and counselling for students who lived in the dormitory
• Coached workshops for the students in mental health, relationship issues, and suicide prevention strategies
• Chosen as the best psychotherapist in ten psychotherapists in the centre based on the client’s evaluation and statistics of the centre in 2014

Clinical Psychologist — 2012

Counselling Centre of University of Water and Electricity Industry, Tehran

• Conducted psychotherapeutic and counselling sessions for students and staff
• Advised on the recruitment of psychologists

Clinical Psychologist- Manager Assistant — 2009-2010

Health Community of Zones 2 and 4 of Tehran Municipality, Tehran, Iran

• Provided individual and couple therapy and counselling
• Delivered workshops for parents, children, and couples such as The Cool Kids program for children’s anxiety and their families, child-rearing, parenting specifically for ADHD, ODD and CD children (Triple-P package), sexual dysfunctions, and life skills
• Reported activities of the community to the manager

Project Manager (Volunteer) — Jun-Nov 2010

University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran

• Planned and ran psychological workshops (addressed the target population’s educational needs, designed workshops, communicated with professors and coaches, coordinated team members, advertised and terminated the workshops)

Clinical Psychologist — 2009-2011

Tolou-e-Mehr Elementary School, Tehran, Iran

• Conducted psychological assessments of mental health disorders in children
• Performed the Stanford-Binet intelligence test

• Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health — 2024 (Online Course, Harvard University, USA)
• Existential Well-being Counseling: A Person-centered Experiential Approach — 2024 (Online Course, KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Foundations of Clinical Supervision — 2023 (Online Course endorsed by the CPCA, Toronto, Canada)
• Clinical Hypnotherapy — 2021 (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
• De-escalation Skills for Conflict Intervention — 2019 (St. Stephen’s Community House, Toronto, Canada)
• Anti-Black Racism — 2019 (Eva’s Initiatives, Toronto, Canada)
• Anti-Oppression Psychotherapy — 2019 (Eva’s Initiatives, Toronto, Canada)
• Prolonged Exposure (PE) for PTSD — 2018 (The Royal Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, Canada)
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) — 2017 (The Royal Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, Canada)
• EEG Signal Processing and its Application to Computational Neuroscience — 2017 (National Brain Mapping Lab, Tehran, Iran)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBT-P) — 2016 (The Royal Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, Canada)
• Mental Health First Aid (MAFA) — 2016 (The Royal Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, Canada)
• Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS 2) — 2015 (The Online course, The Royal Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, Canada)
• Bridging Program for International Health Care Professional — 2015 (World Skills Centre, Ottawa, Canada)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Self-esteem — 2014 (Counselling Center of University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
• Object Relations — 2013 (Counselling Center of University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
• Neurofeedback — 2012 (Atiyeh Psychiatric Clinic, Tehran, Iran)
• Theories of Couple Therapy according to Cultural Issues — 2012 (Iranian Psychological Association, Tehran, Iran)
• Motivational Interviews with Drug Addicts — 2009 (Novin Rehabilitation and Therapy Center, Tehran, Iran)
• Educating Autistic Children | Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) — 2009 (Family Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)
• Behavioural Management: For Parents with Teenage Children — 2010 (Iranian Psychological Association, Tehran, Iran)
• Teaching Life Skills to Children — 2010 (Iranian Psychological Association, Tehran, Iran)
• Conflict Patterns in Young Couples — 2010 (4th National Congress on Family Pathology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)
• Solution-focused Family Therapy — 2008 (3rd National Congress on Family Pathology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)
• Marriage Issues and Drug Abuse — 2010 (Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran, Iran)
• Couples Therapy with Systemic Approach — 2008 (Family Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)

• Rostami, S., Borjali, A., Eskandari, H., Rostami, R., Scalabrini, A., & Northoff, G. (2022). Slow and Powerless Thought Dynamic Relates to Brooding in Unipolar and Bipolar Depression. Psychopathology, 55(5), 258–272. https://doi.org/10.1159/000523944
• Rostami, S., Borjali, A., Eskandari, H., Rostami, R., & Northoff, G. (2021). Novel Approach to Mind Wandering in Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder Patients: Does the Direction of Thoughts Matter?. International Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 15(1), 66-72. doi: 10.30491/ijbs.2021.250747.138
• Rostami, S. & Fathi-Ashtiani, A. (2015). The Effect of Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy on Children’s Non-clinical Anxiety. International Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 9(3), 187-191.
• Samira Rostami and Lida Tebyaninian. Marital Communication Patterns and Defense Styles, International Family Therapy Congress in Canada, 2012.
• Samira Rostami. Family and Schizophrenia: Parenting Styles and MMPI Factors, the International Family Therapy Congress in Canada, 2012.
• Maryam Cheshmeh Alai, Shirin Zeinali and Samira Rostami. The effectiveness of Parent Management Training on Mothers’ Aggression and Marital Satisfaction, The Psychology of Children and Adolescences International Congress in Shiraz, Iran, 2012.
• Maryam Cheshmeh Alai, Samira Rostami, and Shirin Zeinali. The Effectiveness of Parent Management Training on Parenting Stress and Child Stress, the International Psychology of Children and Adolescences Congress in Shiraz, Iran, 2012.
• Samira Rostami. The Relationship between Working Memory and Visual-Spatial Processing with Fluid Intelligence in 6-11-Year-Old Boys, the International Psychiatry of Children and Adolescences Congress in Tehran, Iran, 2013.
• Samira Rostami. Comparison of Subscales of Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test in 6-8-Year-Old and 9-11-Year-Old Children, the International Psychiatry of Children and Adolescences Congress in Tehran, Iran, 2013.
• Ali Soleimani, Mehrzad Farahati, and Samira Rostami. The Investigation of Creativity and Social Maturity in Children who Sleep with a Doll, The International Psychiatry of Children and Adolescences Congress in Tehran, Iran, 2013.

Translated “Introduction to Psychology of Aging” book — 2017

• Author: Ian Stuart — Nashr-e-Daneshgahi, Allameh Tabatabaei’ University Publication, Tehran, Iran

Translated “Helping Your Anxious Child” book — 2011 (Cognitive-behavioural Family Therapy for Anxious Children)

• Authors: Prof. Ronald Rapee and colleagues — Arjmand Publication, Tehran, Iran

Translated “Helping Your Anxious Child Workbook” — 2011

• Authors: Prof. Ronald Rapee and colleagues — Arjmand Publication, Tehran, Iran