Elizabeth Kelen
Psychotherapist And Social Worker In Private Practice
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolElizabeth Kelen is a psychotherapist and social worker in private practice in Ottawa with nine years of clinical experience delivering depth-oriented individual and couples therapy through a psychodynamic and attachment lens. She blends a strong mental health background from top institutions like Johns Hopkins and UMB with practical experience in nonprofit and hospital settings, serving diverse socioeconomic and cultural populations. Unusually for a clinician, she also holds an advanced developer certificate from 42 Paris and has contributed front-end and React Native improvements to the privacy-focused Berty messaging app, demonstrating a rare mix of clinical sensitivity and product-minded technical skill. This hybrid background lets her approach client care with systems-thinking and accessibility awareness, while her creative-writing BA underpins clear, empathetic communication.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Social Work - MSW Mental Health Concentration, Master of Social Work - MSW Mental Health Concentration at University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)Johns Hopkins UniversityAdvanced Developer Certificate Computer Science, Advanced Developer Certificate Computer Science at 42 Paris
English, French
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
android-development10
uid10
front-end-development10
android10
mobile10
user-interface9
ux-design9
ui-design9
interface-design9
react9
user-experience9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
berty/berty
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Mobile Developer (React Native)
Front-end Developer & Mobile Developer (React Native)Contributions:5 reviews, 139 commits, 143 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Elizabeth primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the Berty application. Their contributions included enhancing user-facing language, fixing typos, and refining UI components. They also worked on making the BertyId modal responsive and scrollable, addressing scaling issues, and implementing swipe navigation. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the usability and responsiveness of the application across different devices.
censorshipsurveillancemobile-apppeer-to-peerios
ekelen/trees-of-paris
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Angular CLI + MongoDB tool to visualize the trees (species, location) of Paris.
Contributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 1 month
treesvisualizemongodb-cliangular-clilocation
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.