Lee, Bonnie
Professor
Health Sci - Addictions Counselling Program
- Phone
- (403) 317-5047
- bonnie.lee@uleth.ca
Office Hours
Day (i.e. Monday, or MWF): 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Day (i.e. Monday, or MWF): 9:00 AM to 4:30 PMAbout Me
A.B. Smith College
M.Ed. University of Virginia
M.A. St. Paul University and University of Ottawa
M.S.W. University of Calgary
Ph.D. University of Ottawa
M.Ed. University of Virginia
M.A. St. Paul University and University of Ottawa
M.S.W. University of Calgary
Ph.D. University of Ottawa
Biography
Bonnie Lee, Ph.D., is Professor in Health Sciences (Addictions Counselling Program). She is also a Research Affiliate of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. Dr. Lee was awarded the University of Lethbridge Board of Governors Research Chair (Tier II) in Healthy Futures (2016-2019), a prestigious appointment that recognizes her excellence and international reputation for her research and leadership in advancing a relational framework in the addiction field.
Dr. Lee obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa with two postdoctoral fellowships in the same institution. Prior to settling in Lethbridge, she had resided in nine cities around the world. She is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist-Supervisor with the Canadian Association for Marriage Family and Therapy, a Clinical Fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Registered Social Worker.
In 2023, Dr. Lee founded the Graduate Certificate Program in Couple and Family Counselling Studies to equip those in the fields of health, social science and health services management with a systemic and relational paradigm to view challenges and create multi-dimensional solutions. https://www.ulethbridge.ca/future-student/graduate-studies/couple-and-family-counselling-studies-gc
She received the Distinguished Contribution Recognition from the Alberta Association of Marriage and Family Therapy in 2010. She was also awarded the YWCA (Lethbridge) Woman of Distinction Award in the Spirit of Women category in 2010. Her Congruence Couple Therapy, adopted by Addiction Services, Edmonton, is named a 2023 Distinguished Initiative by the Health Quality Council of Alberta in their Patient Experience Awards, celebrating programs that improve patient access and experience in Alberta's health-care services.
In her career, she has received international appointments at six universities across the world.
For Dr. Lee's publications, go to: https://opus.uleth.ca/collections/f8af2221-e594-4d19-bcbf-fa5b8f77a8ae
About Dr. Lee's research and workshops, go to: https://sites.ulethbridge.ca/congruence-couple-therapy-research
Dr. Lee obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa with two postdoctoral fellowships in the same institution. Prior to settling in Lethbridge, she had resided in nine cities around the world. She is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist-Supervisor with the Canadian Association for Marriage Family and Therapy, a Clinical Fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Registered Social Worker.
In 2023, Dr. Lee founded the Graduate Certificate Program in Couple and Family Counselling Studies to equip those in the fields of health, social science and health services management with a systemic and relational paradigm to view challenges and create multi-dimensional solutions. https://www.ulethbridge.ca/future-student/graduate-studies/couple-and-family-counselling-studies-gc
She received the Distinguished Contribution Recognition from the Alberta Association of Marriage and Family Therapy in 2010. She was also awarded the YWCA (Lethbridge) Woman of Distinction Award in the Spirit of Women category in 2010. Her Congruence Couple Therapy, adopted by Addiction Services, Edmonton, is named a 2023 Distinguished Initiative by the Health Quality Council of Alberta in their Patient Experience Awards, celebrating programs that improve patient access and experience in Alberta's health-care services.
In her career, she has received international appointments at six universities across the world.
For Dr. Lee's publications, go to: https://opus.uleth.ca/collections/f8af2221-e594-4d19-bcbf-fa5b8f77a8ae
About Dr. Lee's research and workshops, go to: https://sites.ulethbridge.ca/congruence-couple-therapy-research
Publications
http://www.uleth.ca/research/research_profiles/dr-bonnie-lee
https://opus.uleth.ca/collections/f8af2221-e594-4d19-bcbf-fa5b8f77a8ae
https://sites.ulethbridge.ca/congruence-couple-therapy-research
https://opus.uleth.ca/collections/f8af2221-e594-4d19-bcbf-fa5b8f77a8ae
https://sites.ulethbridge.ca/congruence-couple-therapy-research
Degrees
A.B. (English, Biology); M.Ed. (Speech Pathology); M.A. (Pastoral Studies in Marital Counseling and Individual Counseling); MSW (Social Work in Clinical Practice); PhD (Religious Studies)
Research Interests
1. Substance abuse, problem gambling, internet gaming and sex addiction
2. Couple Therapy in addiction -- Treatment and counsellors training
couples and family communication and interventions; concurrent disorders; pathways mapping of adverse childhood experiences with relationship distress and addiction/mental health issues; intergenerational transmission of mental health and addiction problems; randomized controlled trials; evaluation studies; theory development; knowledge transfer
3. Immigrants and internationalization:
Immigrant values and beliefs in mental health; factors conducive to immigrant integration; racism injuries and internalized racism; multiculturalism; indigenous and traditional knowledges; internationalization of teaching and learning
Research Areas
Congruence Couple Therapy efficacy study
Ethnography on cultural values and beliefs related to gambling and recovery
Counsellor training evaluation
Congruence Couple Therapy training
Pathological gambling
Expertise
Spirituality and religions in counselling and health
Chinese cultural beliefs and values in gambling
Immigrants and pathological gambling
Addictions
Pathological gambling
Counsellor training
Couple therapy evidence-based research
Languages
Chinese