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Gloria Aber is a master’s student in Clinical Psychology at Makerere University - Uganda, writing her master’s thesis on contextualization and validation of the Flourishing Scale among Makerere University students. She embodies a strong background in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support both in clinical and community setting. Early in her career, Gloria was engaged in the psychosocial support department at The AIDS Support Organization, Northern Uganda in 2018, where she provided basic mental health and psychosocial support to people living with HIV/AINDS and coordinated anti-stigma community outreach activities.

She worked across progressive responsible roles from September 2019 to June 2023 in refugee settlements in Northern Uganda, including Palorinya, Imvepi, and Bidibidi. She began as a paid intern, served as a volunteer and later was employed as a social worker where she contributed to strengthening referral pathways, trained and supervised volunteer psychosocial assistants provided community-based psychosocial interventions for individuals and groups, and managed case monitoring tools and system.

Whilst studying her master’s degree, she was a clinical practicum trainee at Butabika National Referral Hospital where she developed and implemented evidence-based treatment plans under supervision of licensed Clinical Psychologist while gaining advanced experience in case diagnosis and treatment. Currently while she writes her master’s thesis, Gloria works with Victim’s Voice International - a Mental Health Outpatient Clinic in Northern Uganda as a research associate and therapist. In this regard, as key part of her work, she has the opportunity to support the TRAUMAFIT Project back in Uganda. Within this project, she aims to investigate predictors of treatment outcome and to explore experiences of service users and service providers in treatment to understand why psychological treatments for PTSD work better for some individuals than others.