About Me
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.
I write and post almost exclusively on the child welfare system, the Canadian experience of disability, trauma disorders, and the impact of social policy on mental health. I am unable to work or provide professional services at this time, but I am determined to overcome the disability barriers I’m facing to change that.
Outside of my profession, I am a life-long lover of running, cycling, swimming, and weightlifting. Personal bests include a 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 spinal cord myelopathy, complex trauma and other chronic health issues, but still “training” with resistance bands.
Note: None of my posts are intended as attention-seeking narratives nor a request for sympathy. They are a call for awareness, solidarity, and mutual support. The personal narrative included in some of my posts is intended to illuminate systemic patterns of institutional violence and neglect within Canada’s institutions and to stand in solidarity with others who have endured similar harms.
