About the Professors

Cristelle Audet

Assistant Professor
LMX 234
Telephone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 4060
Email: caudet@uottawa.ca

Research interests

• Social justice training and practice
• Counsellor education and supervision
• Psychotherapy process research
• Therapist self-disclosure

Teaching fields

• Ethical and legal dimensions of counselling
• Counselling internship supervision
• Theories of career development
• Counselling applications in secondary schools

Bio

Professor Audet is interested in the role of counselling in addressing challenges such as poverty, hunger, and AIDS in developing countries. To this end, she wishes to research social justice practices in an international context to promote relevant counsellor education and training.

Curious about how clients experience the therapy process, she has looked at the client's perspective of therapist disclosure and how it influences the therapeutic relationship. Professor Audet leans toward research approaches that are pan-theoretical, qualitative, and honour the client's perspective.

Lastly, she is interested in web-based technologies that complement counsellor learning and development. She helped develop the Collaborative Counselling and Supervision Website with Professor Paré as part of a SSHRC-funded project titled Co-Constructing Knowledge among Counsellor Communities of Practice.

Publications

Audet, C. (accepted). Client Perspectives of Therapist Self-Disclosure: Violating Boundaries or Removing Barriers? Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 28 pp.

Audet, C., & Paré, D. A. (2009). The Collaborative Counselling Website: Using video e-learning via Blackboard Vista to enrich counselor training. In G. R. Walz, J. C. Bleuer, & R. K. Yep (Eds.), Compelling Counseling Interventions: VISTAS 2009. (pp. 305-315). Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

Paré, D. A., Audet, C., Caputo, C., Bailey, J., Hatch, K., & Wong-Wylie, G. (2004). Courageous practice: Tales from reflexive supervision. Canadian Journal of Counselling, 38, 118-130.