Saiber Shaikh is a second-year doctoral student at the Penn State's Counselor Education program. She earned her master’s degree from Purdue University Northwest in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with specific focus on Expressive Arts based therapy and Addictions Counseling. She also has another master’s from University of Mumbai in Applied Psychology with specialization in Counseling Psychology. She is currently the Lead Clinic Supervisor at the on campus mental health clinic called the Edwin L. Herr Clinic that helps support master and doctoral level counselors-in-training. Her research interest includes imposter phenomenon, Counselors-in-Training professional development and wellbeing, decolonizing research in mental health, chronic health issues and invisible disabilities, women issues, GenAI and meme culture. She serves as the Editorial Fellow for the Journal of Counseling Preparation and Supervision. She is also the incoming Graduate Student Representative Elect for NARACES. In her free time, she loves connecting with people, staring at flowers, and watching cat and dog videos on the internet.

Connect with her on saiber.shaikh@psu.edu for collaborations and conversations.