Dr Alia Offman is a registered psychologist in Ontario, Canada providing counselling and professional training services using Mindfulness-integrated CBT. She obtained her doctorate in research psychology at Carleton University, a Master’s in Education at the University of Ottawa, and post-doctorate training as a counselling psychologist. She is currently working through Self-Balance Psychological Services to provide MiCBT therapy and training in the town of Perth and On-line..

She has been a Contract Instructor at Carleton University for 20 years teaching in the psychology department. She has supervised their fourth year Honours Projects course, taught a fourth-year seminar course in The Psychology of Human Sexuality and undergraduate courses in The Psychology of Women, Statistics and Social Psychology. She has also taught in the education department at the University of Ottawa as a sessional lecturer. She is currently teaching a fourth-year course in Mindfulness and Well-being.

Dr. Offman is a published researcher with the majority of her work focused on adult populations, studying such diverse areas as workplace productivity, the impact of discrimination on health, communication in relationships and the effects of relationship violence on self-esteem. She was an Associate Researcher at Carleton University and a Research Associate with the Ottawa Health Research Institute.

She has completed 3 levels of training in the Mindful School Program and has experience offering mindfulness training to grade school students. For many years she volunteered with Planned Parenthood Ottawa, and she was recognized for her work in the field of human sexuality. She was awarded a Scholarship from the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada.

She continues to study and train in mindfulness approaches and is a co-director of the North American Chapter of the MiCBT institute.