TEACHING

• PSYC 3404 Effective Communication Skills in Psychology
• PSYC 3406 Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy
• PSYC 4410 Qualitative Research Methods for Psychology

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Family therapy, social constructionist informed therapies, discursive psychology, cultural discourses in psychotherapy, social justice.

Current research: Inviting Relational Wellness and Minimizing Harm: A Collaborative Pilot Program for Families

Selected Publications

Chang, J., Gaete-Silva, J., & Sametband, I. (2025). Disrupting coloniality in clinical supervision. In S. Collins & M. Jay (Eds)., Decolonizing health, healing, and care: Embodying culturally responsive and socially just counselling. Counselling Concepts.

Gaete-Silva, J., Chang, J., & Sametband, I. (2025). Clinical supervision: Making products or a profession? In O. Smoliak, E. Tseliou, T. Strong, S. Bava, and P. Muntigl (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies. Routledge.

Gaete-Silva, J., Tomm, K., Sametband, I., & Samuels, S. (2025). Transforming seven kinds of relational pain. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 51(3), e70043. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.70043

Guanaes-Lorenzi, C., Sesma-Vazquez, M., Gaete Silva, J., Sametband, I., & Tomm, K. (2025). Bringing forth generativities within relational disquiet: An interview with Karl Tomm. Family Process, 64(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70030

Sametband, I. & Gaete, J. (2024). From parenting training to collaborating with parents. In C. Sinclair & S. Bisson (Eds.), Counselling from the front lines, psychologists’ lived experiences. University of Calgary Press.

Sametband, I., Chiara, G., Gaete, J., & Strong, T. (2023) Negotiating cultural relevance from within therapy conversations. Human Systems: Therapy, Culture, and Attachments, 4(1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/26344041231199908

Smoliak, O., Couture, S., Gaete, J., Rogers De-Jong, M., Sametband, I., & Lamarre, A. (2021). Approaching family therapy discursively: Practice-based evidence to enhance family therapy conversations. In M. O’Reilly & J. Lester (Eds.), Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner led research. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. doi: 10.4324/9781003024330-3-4

Strong, T., Sametband, I., Gaete, J., & Lopez-Bilbao, S. (2020). Whose culture is it anyway? A social constructionist and discursive approach to researching cross-cultural interactions within families and family therapy. In R. Singh & M. Rastogi (Eds.), Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy (Vol. IV). Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119438519.ch87

Gaete, J., Sametband, I., St. George, S., Wulff, D., Tomm, K., & Durán, G. (2018). Realizing relational preferences through transforming interpersonal patterns. Family Process, 59(1), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12417

Sametband, I. & Strong, T. (2018). Immigrant family members negotiating preferred cultural identities in family therapy conversations: a discursive analysis. Journal of Family Therapy, 40(2), 201-223. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.12164