Dr. Rebecca Hudson-Breen

Research and Community Engagement Committee

Dr. Rebecca Hudson Breen is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta and is a Registered Psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with individuals and couples in a range of settings including post-secondary counselling, health care, and not-for-profit. Her theoretical orientation in Counselling Psychology is integrative, drawing from constructivist and humanistic traditions, and she has a special interest in working with couples, parents, and individuals with career-life concerns. As a researcher,  Dr Breen is most interested in questions of career-life, the intersections of multiple life roles (including both paid and unpaid work), relational and sociocultural contexts of work/career, and social justice in career-life development. She has particular focus on the experience of mothering work as an aspect of career-life, and past research has focused on the experiences, choices and strategies of mother entrepreneurs.