About
Dr. Parmis Aslanimehr is a Certified Family Relations Mediator (Cert.FRM) and Parenting Coordinator (PC) with a PhD and MA in Human Development, Learning, and Culture, and a BA in Psychology.
She studied at the University of British Columbia, where her Master’s and Doctoral research explored the particularities of identity under challenging circumstances, especially when disconnection and a sense of exile disrupt relationships.
Her book, Exile as an Educative Engagement: The Dizziness of Recognition, grew out of this research and extends those themes into everyday life, exploring how we confront disconnection from others and from ourselves.
Her approach combines developmental psychology with philosophical inquiry, offering clients not just structure, but a way to think through change with clarity and care.
What began as academic research became a lasting pursuit: a commitment to understanding how people hold themselves together in struggle, in silence, and in the spaces in between.
ReSolv was created for exactly these moments: when individuals deserve to be heard without being undone.
Parmis’s work is not just about reaching agreement. It is about helping clients find language where there’s been silence and bringing thoughtfulness to moments too often hidden behind legal formality.
Resolution is never one-size-fits-all. ReSolv helps clients reshape what lies ahead on their own terms.
Selected Works & Experience
Education
PhD, Human Development, Learning, and Culture
MA, Human Development, Learning, and Culture
BA, Psychology
Certified Family Relations Mediator (C.FRM)
Book
Aslanimehr, P. (2025). Exile as an Educative Engagement: The Dizziness of Recognition. Routledge.
Academic Journals
Aslanimehr, P. (2021). Can Philosophy Aid the Adjustment of Newcomer Children? Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 41(2), 19–31
Aslanimehr, P., Marsal, E., Weber, B., & Knapp, F. (2018). Nature Gives and Nature Takes: A Qualitative Comparison Between Canadian and German Children About their Concepts of ‘Nature.’ Childhood & Philosophy, 14(30), 483–515
Aslanimehr, P. (2015). Uncovering the Efficacy of Philosophical Inquiry With Children. Childhood & Philosophy, 11(22), 329–348
Awards & Recognition
Nominated by UBC for the CAGS-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award (2024)
UBC President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award (consecutive years, 2020–2023)
UBC Department of Education & Counselling Psychology and Special Education (ECPS) Scholarship for Academic Excellence (consecutive years, 2014–2023)
Teaching & Research
Instructor for the following seminars at UBC:
Human Development, Learning, and Diversity
Assessment and Learning in the Classroom
Cultivating Supportive School and Classroom Environments
Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology
Graduate Research Assistant in philosophical inquiry with children and youth
Professional Memberships
Family Mediation Canada
BC Hear the Child Society
Janusz Korczak Association of Canada
Engaged Philosophical Inquiry Consortium (UBC)