University & higher-education guidance
Course and country selection, application strategy, personal statements, and the transition from school to university, helping each student build a list and a story that genuinely fit.
Academic & University Counselling · Doha
Tracy Abi Hanna
Academic counsellor. University guidance, academic planning, and student wellbeing.
I help students navigate the path from school to university, and the questions underneath it: what to study, how to work, and how to stay well along the way. My practice is grounded in psychology and applied neuroscience.
MSc Applied Neuroscience, King's College London
Psychology & neuroscience
IB Diploma Programme · Category 1
IApproach
Good counselling begins with listening. The plan, the applications, the choices: they all follow from understanding the student in front of you.
Tracy Abi Hanna is an academic and university counsellor in Doha. She guides secondary-school students through the decisions that shape what comes next: subject choices, study habits, university applications, and the pressure that comes with them, pairing the everyday craft of counselling with a grounding in psychology and applied neuroscience. Her approach is patient and evidence-led: know the student, map the options, and build a plan they can actually follow. Before moving into education she coordinated clinical research at the American University of Beirut Medical Centre, and she is completing a Master of Science in Applied Neuroscience at King's College London.
IIHow I help
One-to-one academic counselling
Subject choices, study habits, and time-management, counselling that helps a student understand how they work best, with the academic-integrity grounding that keeps the work their own.
Student wellbeing & motivation
A psychology- and neuroscience-informed approach to stress, motivation, and how students learn, so the support reaches the whole student, not just the transcript.
IB Diploma support
For IB students: subject selection, the core (Extended Essay, Theory of Knowledge, and CAS) and steady guidance through the diploma, drawing on experience coordinating the programme.
IIIExperience
Head of Academic Counselling
International school · Doha, Qatar
Leading academic counselling at the school level, overseeing university guidance, academic planning, and the support structures that carry students through their final years of school.
Counsellor & IB Diploma Programme Coordinator
Lycée Franco-Qatarien Voltaire · Doha, Qatar
Counselled students through subject choices, university applications, and personal challenges, while coordinating the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme across the school.
Clinical Research Coordinator
American University of Beirut Medical Centre, Multiple Sclerosis Center · Beirut, Lebanon
Coordinated clinical research at the MS Center, contributing to published work on the factors affecting patients' health-related quality of life across Lebanon and the wider MENA region.
Training & Educational Development Coordinator
GCI LAU Model United Nations · Byblos, Lebanon & New York, USA
Designed and delivered training, educational development, and logistics for a major Model United Nations programme across two continents.
IVBackground
- MSc Applied Neuroscience – King's College London · in progress, expected 2026 (High Distinction standing)
- BA Psychology (Honours) – Lebanese American University · awarded Best Senior Research Project by the Department of Psychology
- IB Diploma Programme, Category 1 – Counselling, and Leading the Learning
- Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging – Johns Hopkins University
- Research ethics – Responsible Conduct of Research (CITI); Protecting Human Research Participants (NIH); Title IX (EVERFI)
Technical: R · SPSS · Microsoft Office Suite · Adobe Photoshop
ArabicNative
EnglishHighly proficient
FrenchHighly proficient
SpanishBeginner
GermanBeginner
VResearch
Peer-reviewed publication
Farran, N., Safieddine, B., Bayram, M., Abi Hanna, T., Massouh, J., AlKhawaja, M., Tamim, H., & Darwish, H. (2019). Factors affecting MS patients' health-related quality of life and measurement challenges in Lebanon and the MENA region. Multiple Sclerosis Journal – Experimental, Translational and Clinical, 1–12.
2018–19Clinical Research CoordinatorAUBMC Multiple Sclerosis Center, Beirut
2017Research AssistantUniversity of Oxford (Christ Church) & Dartmouth College
2015Research InternQatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Doha
2014Research InternShen Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
VIElsewhere
Let's talk about your students
Open to academic-counselling, educational consulting, IB coordination, and collaboration with schools and families. The best way to reach me is by email.
[email protected]