Anqa Gharshin
Lecturer
Department of Psychology , Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

anqa.gharshin@buitms.edu.pk

Qualification

Bachelor's (2016)
Counselling Psychology and GUidance
Kocaeli University, Turkey

Teaching Courses

  • Counselling Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Assessment in Psychology
  • Cross-cultural Psychology
  • Gender Psychology
  • Positive Psychology
  • Health Psychology

Teaching Method

  • Collaborative Learning
  • Self-learning
  • Visual, Audio, & Kinesthetic Teaching
  • Expeditionary Learning
  • Inquiry-Based Learning

Research Interest

  • Counseling psychology
  • Youth mental health and well-being
  • School-based mental health interventions
  • Teacher training and capacity-building in helping skills
  • Psychological first aid and crisis response
  • Community-based mental health models
  • Mental health promotion in educational institutions
  • Community-based mental health models
  • Mental health promotion in educational institutions
  • Preventive and supportive mental health strategies
  • Disability accommodations and inclusive support for university students
  • Integration of theory and practice in psychological education

Membership

  • World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy

Academic & Social Links

Anqa Gharshin is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at BUITEMS, where she has led the Community Work course for over four years, connecting students with schools, orphanages, jails, refugee programs, and mental health institutions across Balochistan. With more than eight years of counselling experience, she has served voluntarily as a counsellor under the Faculty Student Advisory within the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Her initiatives include teacher training in helping skills, community-based mental health awareness, and advocacy for workplace mental health policies. She has also provided career counselling and psychosocial support to Afghan refugee students through her collaboration with ICRMS. A Turkish Government Scholarship alumna, she maintains international academic linkages and aims to strengthen counselling psychology education and establish a multidisciplinary mental health institute in Quetta to expand access to care and professional opportunities.