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Your Name: Amanda/Wanderlustlover
Character's Canon: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Relevant Points of Canon: All of TNG canon is a good reference point for Deanna, herself, but good references for research her counseling are the following Next Generation episodes: 3.08, 4.10, 4.25, 5.10, 5.20, 6.02, 6.03, 6.26, 7.03, 7.06, 7.07. (Also, helpful -- Deanna's Profile on Memory Alpha.)
When Deanna Arrived on the Enterprise: Star Trek: The Next Generation 1.01
Background and Counseling Qualifications: Deanna attended the University of Betazed, studying psychology, and then attended The Starfleet Academy where she majored in it. Being half-Betazoid and half-human, Deanna has empathic and telepath skills. Due to her half-human heritage, however, her range of telepathic powers is severely limited when not near full-blooded Betazoids.
Specialties/Warnings: Deanna's skills make her an important asset to The Enterprise and Captain Picard, where her skills are often used when dealing with most missions and interactions the crew has with other races. Deanna is almost always patients, honest, kind and compassionate toward everyone, both off and especially on duty. But as she serves as part of The Senior Staff, has daily Bridge Duty as one of Picard's Right Hand's, is working on advancing her rank, and continues to be counseling the entire crew and their families on the ship, Counselor Troi is not always as available as the rest of her staff.
Your Name: Ryannax
Contact Info: cornichaun @ gmail, plurk and AIM
Character's Canon: Star Trek: Voyager (novels)
Relevant Points of Canon: Hugh Cambridge appears in the Voyager books by Kirsten Beyer; these begin with Full Circle, continue through Unworthy, Children of the Storm, The Eternal Tide, Protectors and Acts of Contrition. None of them center on him as a character, but all give a good idea of him and how he interacts with people. (Also, Hugh Cambridge's page on Memory Beta.)
When Cambridge Arrived on the Enterprise: late June 2015, from about 2382
Background and Counseling Qualifications: Cambridge been a counselor for ~30 years, almost all of that in Starfleet; besides that, he's a fully qualified physician and has post-graduate degrees in xenoanthropology and psychology. In Starfleet, he is both counselor and first contact specialist. He's served as ship's counselor for a few different starships, most notably Voyager, and he was also at Starfleet Medical for twelve years.
Specialties/Warnings: Cambridge can be an enormous asshole, and most people strongly dislike him upon meeting. He is often blunt and matter-of-fact, to the point of being rude, and he doesn't let people, even patients, give him shit. He's also very good at what he does. He is excellent with trauma, but also does extremely well with issues centering on relationships, communication, cultural compatibility, interpersonal dynamics, and more.
Your Name: Kara/Caletara
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Character's Canon: Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Relevant Points of Canon: Deep Space 9: 3.04 (Equilibrium), 7.03 Afterimage, 7.08 Siege of AR-558, 7.10 It's Only a Paper Moon, 7.11 Prodigal Daughter, 7.13 Field of Fire (also Ezri's page and Dax's page on Memory Alpha.)
When Ezri Arrived on the Enterprise: Deep Space 9 7.13 (Field of Fire)
Background and Counseling Qualifications: Ezri studied Psychology, including forensic Psychology at Starfleet Academy. She was stationed as an assistant counselor on the Destiny, bringing the Dax symbiont to Trill after Jadzia's death, when the symbiont took a turn for the worst and had to be joined to a host immediately. Lucky for Ezri, she was the only Trill on board, and one completely unprepared with none of the usual training. Benjamin Sisko then petitioned Starfleet Medical for a promotion to Lieutenant from Ensign and the post of full counselor on DS9, wondering what else she might learn during training that she hadn't already learned from Dax.
She also has 8 lifetimes of memories and experiences from Dax's previous hosts including politicians, scientists, pilots, ambassadors and even one murderer.
Specialties/Warnings: Ezri's completely confused and mixed up. So, she gets it. She's a big proponent of practicing what you preach, and she thinks she totally needs therapy as well. With 8 other lifetimes to deal with she's still discovering exactly who she is and what she can do as Ezri Dax, and not as the former Ezri Tigan. She often uses those experiences in her counselling sessions. In canon she's successfully helped Garak whose guilt over assisting the Federation instead of his own people during the Dominion War caused him such panic attacks he couldn't continue, and Nog, who lost his leg during the Battle of AR-558 and decided to live in a 1940's holosuite program.
Ezri also used her experiences as Joran Dax and knowledge of forensic psychology to successfully track down a Vulcan who had been so emotionally compromised he was killing happy people on DS9.
Your Name: Nyx
Character's Canon: Marvel comic canon, AU version
Relevant Points of Canon: Being AU she has no real canon references. I do recommend Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men.
When Emma Arrived on the Enterprise: March 2015
Background and Counseling Qualifications: Emma has helped mutant victims of trauma over the course of two lifetimes. As her canon self she worked with the X-men as both teacher and counselor. In her AU she was called upon to help extremely traumatized people who were exposed to the weird of the area they lived in.
Specialties/Warnings: Emma is a telepath and this is an important part of her therapy. She's also somewhat brusque.
Your Name: Bri
Character's Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Relevant Points of Canon: Pretty much all of Captain America: the Winter Soldier
When Sam Arrived on the Enterprise: October 2014
Background and Counseling Qualifications: Sam was a pararescueman and part of a top secret government project for over a decade. He retired when his best friend was hit with an RPG in front of him, and went through his own therapy before he become a counselor. He's worked as a counselor at the VA for a few years, leading support groups and doing individual counseling.
Specialties/Warnings: Sam specializes in trauma, grief/loss, detachment, adjusting from one way of life to getting used to living a completely different lifestyle, and soldiers in general. A lot of what he does is based on finding similarities in what he's been through and what other people are going through, and sharing what's helped him. He's empathic and gentle when he needs to be, with a healthy dose of mixing humor and serious and being unafraid to be blunt or ask the hard questions when someone needs a push.
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