AZRJIEL UY

A detail-oriented and high-achieving undergraduate looking to further pursue a graduate degree in clinical psychology. Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and technical skills that enable quick adaptability and fast, comprehensive learning. A strong interest in youth development, adult social adjustment, and the impact of childhood experiences and childhood trauma such as grief. Eager to contribute to a psychology-related environment and gain hands-on experience in relevant clinical or research settings.

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Sep 2024 - Dec 2025

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

• GPA: 4.00
• Awards: Dean's List

RELEVENT COURSEWORK: Health Psychology, Psychopathology, Personality Psychology, Learning Processes, Learning Processes Lab, Cognition, Social Research Methods, Community Psychology & Mental Health, Advanced Topics in Developmental Psychology: Childhood Trauma, Systems of Psychotherapy

Associate of Arts in liberal Arts-Social Science, Jan 2023 - Aug 2024

Raritan Valley Community College

• GPA: 4.00
• Awards: President's List

RELEVANT COURSEWORK: Abnormal Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Statistics I&II, Interpersonal Communication, Current Moral & Social Issues, Intro to Psychology

Training & Curriculum Assistant, Feb 2026 - Jun 2026

Good Grief Inc.

• Processing and reporting information from in-person and online workshop feedback surveys
• Develop and pilot online grief support certification courses
• Revamping online filing system for the department's files and materials

Program Assistant, Sep 2025 - December 2025

Good Grief Inc.

• Preparing the rooms and materials for grief support groups on program nights
• Facilitate and support the running of grief support groups through age-appropriate grief-based activities and discussion
• Assisting with data entry and file management of grief group progress reports

Teaching Support Staff, Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

Rutgers Psychology Child Development Center (RUPCDC)

• Assisting in encouraging and reinforcing behavior and developmental goals set by teaching staff through modeling, reinforcement, and other psychological approaches as advised by teaching staff
• Preparing and organizing teaching and classroom materials

Mental Health Technician, May 2025 - Aug 2025

Medallion Care

• Interacting with, caring for, and supervising psychiatric, adult partial-care clients
• Coordinating and facilitating daily treatment group sessions with a rotating schedule of topics (i.e. psychoeducation, medicine education, communication, coping strategies)
• Developing treatment group materials, lesson plans, and activities
• Working with clients one-to-one to discuss their treatment and materialize goals
• Writing client progress notes, treatment plans, and objective reviews
• Data entry for client paperwork into shared database
• Managing rooms, materials, and supplies throughout the facility

Research Assistant, Aug 2026 - Present

READY Lab

• Assisting with literature review under a current Master's student
• Assisting in collecting fMRI data for the C.A.R.E study

Front End Manager, Sep 2023 - Aug 2025

Walmart, Inc.

• Planning, executing, and leading daily operation of the store's checkout, customer service, and maintenance departments
• Coordinating multiple service teams, their schedules, tasks, and activities
• Driving and maintaining corporate set metric goals
• Filing store accounting and managing cash flow processes
• Provide "legendary customer service" through empathic, service-minded, and attentive interaction with customers
• De-escalation of abrupt conflicts

Checkout and Customer Service Host, Jan 2023 - Sep 2023

Walmart, Inc.

• Assist customers with financial services, checkout, returns, and exchanges
• Resolve transactional issues
• Address customer questions and needs
• Keeping checkout areas clean and presentable

Grief Facilitator, Jan 2026 - Present

Good Grief Inc.

• Lead and facilitate peer support grief groups for grieving families
• Encouraging participants to build bonds with grieving peers
• Facilitate age-appropriate, grief-based, and or socio-emotional activities and discussions that emulate both talk and play therapy
• Fill out detailed progress reports on group sessions

Human Subjects Research (Social-Behavioral-Educational), Jun 2026

CITI PROGRAM

Level-1 User (MRI Safety), May 2026

Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research (CAHBIR)

Grief Support Certification, November 2025

Good Grief, Inc.

Attendee, "Intergenerational Transmission of Collective Historical Trauma": Watchung, NJ (Sep 2025)

• Learned about how trauma is transmitted among families and groups that were exposed to historical trauma
• Networked with professors, psychologists, and graduate students in the NY/NJ area including members of the Somerset Hunterdon Warren Psychological Association (SHWPA) and the New Jersey Psychological Association (NJPA)