About Me
Professional Designations:
- Registered Social Worker (RSW) – Licensed in both Newfoundland & Labrador and Ontario, Canada
- Board Certified Coach (BCC) – Credentialed to provide goal-focused, action-oriented coaching
Experience:
- 30+ years in the social work/human services field – Supporting individuals through complex transitions, trauma, and life-changing decisions and helping them in various ways, navigate a path.
- Lived experience with mental health and transitions across the lifespan including personal experience with workplace moral conflict.
Education:
- Master of Science, Industrial-Organizational Psychology - Specialized knowledge of how individual, group, and organizational factors influence workplace behavior, change management, organizational development and workplace assessment
- Bachelor of Arts (Honors), Psychology - General knowledge of human behavior across the lifespan, social and personal factors influencing behavior as well as conditioning and shaping behavior
- Certificate in Goal-Focused Coaching - Knowledge of structured questioning, progress tracking, and accountability processes to help clients achieve measurable objectives through proven frameworks.
- Certificate in Solutions Focused Brief Therapy (Advanced Level 2) - Knowledge of using future-focused, solution-oriented questions and interventions to help clients build on their strengths and resources, creating efficient positive change through collaborative, goal-directed brief therapy approaches.
- Regular Ongoing Continuing Education credits in Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Health & Nutrition, Ethics, Trauma & Violence, Moral Injury and others.
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