Name : Maryanne Pais
Qualification : MSc. Clinical Psychology, NET
Designation : Assistant Professor
Department : Psychology
E-mail id : pais.sjec@gmail.com
Biography :
Maryanne Pais is an Assistant Professor and counsellor at St. Joseph’s Evening College (Autonomous), Bangalore. She earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Christ University. She also qualified as an Assistant Professor under NET in the year 2018. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Psychology at Christ (Deemed to be University).

Prior to working in St. Joseph’s Evening College, Maryanne was employed as a psychotherapist and administrative co-ordinator at New Faces Foundation, an NGO that provides free multispecialty treatment to individuals with facial deformities.

Maryanne is also certified as an NLP Level I practitioner, and has received training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), multi-arts based therapy, and Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). Her broad topics of interest include psychopathology, mental health literacy, adolescent mental health, social psychology, and positive psychology.

Professional Qualification

• Workshop on CBT for OCD and BDD organized by Pledge Academy (July, 2020)
• Workshop on Sleep Hygiene and Wellnessorganized by Christ Consulting and Department of Psychology, Christ University (June, 2020).
• Five day Faculty Development Programme titled Reconfiguring the Mind: Post COVID Consciousness organized by the IQAC of Jyoti Nivas College (June, 2020).
• Foundational workshop in Trauma Informed Approach to Psychological Interventions organized by Muktha Foundation (June, 2020).
• Certification in Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) Level 1 from Centre for Emotions, Hyderabad (May, 2020).
• Workshop on Counselling at the Intersections of Technology and Marginalisation organised by Alternative Story, Bangalore (April, 2020).
• Workshop on Ethics on Telecounsellingorganised by Alternative Story, Bangalore (April, 2020).
• Certification in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), from Christ Consulting in collaboration with Mind Masters (December, 2019).
• National conference on New Education Policy, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bangalore (July, 2019).
• International conference on Counselling, Psychotherapy and Wellness at Christ University (January, 2019).
• Regional workshop on Animal Assisted Interventions, Christ University, Bangalore (September, 2018).
• Regional conference on Grief Therapy organised by the CCPI at Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore (9th June, 2018).
• National workshop on Creative Art Therapy for Children with Special Need: When Words Are Not Enough at AIISH, Mysore (2016).
• Workshop on Behavioural Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children and Adolescents organised by NIMHANS Centre for Wellbeing (2015).