[ About Me ]
[ My Background ]
I’m Gillian and I’m currently pursuing a Master’s in Social Work at Columbia University. Prior to graduate school, I gained clinical experience as a substance abuse counselor to middle and high schoolers in Honolulu, Hawai’i. It was through my time in adolescent counseling that I felt drawn to pursue a career in social work. During my first year in the program, I completed an internship providing mental health counseling to first through eighth grade students as well as family therapy services in the Lower East Side.
[ Executive Functioning ]
In my four years of mental health counseling, I learned early on that executive functioning serves as a pillar to life satisfaction and overall wellbeing. Through my education in social work and experience in the field of mental health, my philosophy lies in acknowledging the multidimensionality of a person and its impact on their executive functioning. I believe that through an integrated approach, strengthening one’s executive functioning then becomes internally motivated and sustainable. Having served a population of different ethnicities, cultures, economic backgrounds, and belief systems, one consistent truth is that we all want to be well. I believe that working towards mastering one’s executive functioning is the first step to achieving such.
Contact: gca2110@columbia.edu
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain