About Me
Multi-disabled (SEA, cPTSD, Spinal Injury) foster care, torture, and medical trauma survivor, children’s rights advocate, and trauma-informed public service mental health professional. I have a degree in counselling psychology and many years of post-graduate CE study in trauma-informed care, addiction rehabilitation, crisis care, and concurrent disorders. I’ve worked my entire 30+ year professional career in not-for-profit and public mental health care, holding positions in school behavioural services, child welfare case management, psychiatric crisis intervention, institutional inpatient care and non-profit community residential and PSR clubhouse care.
I am a life-long lover of running, cycling, swimming, and weightlifting (personal bests include half-marathon 22.1 km run, 150 km cycle, 4 km swim, 435 lb Bench Press, 700 lb Full Squat, 575 lb Deadlift. Currently wheelchair-bound with lung disease, spinal cord myelopathy and complex trauma but still swimming and lifting weights (machine-supported).
