Education & Experience

Recent Experience EMPLOYEES ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - Le Ministère de la Sécurité Publique, Gouvernement du Québec 2024 - PRESENT  Psychotherapy intervention with police officers, firefighters, Corrections Officers and other personnel. The Ministry of Public Security in Quebec is the ministry responsible for advising the provincial government on public security matters. It is called upon to reduce the vulnerability of Quebecers to risks linked in particular to crime and disasters. EMPLOYEES ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - The Council of the Secretariat of the Treasury Board (Le Secretariat du Conseil du trésor du Québec) 2022 - PRESENT  Intervention with individuals and couples regarding work-related and personal/family difficulties with provincial government employees PRIVATE PRACTICE 1982 – PRESENT Psychotherapy; Sex and Couple Counselling; Trauma, Depression, Anxiety Intervention  EMDR technique: and hypnotherapy; amateur/professional/elite athletes; Trauma, PTSD; Operational Stress Injuries (OSI), workplace-related difficulties, return-to-work counselling, performance enhancement, addiction, depression, anxiety, smoking cessation, and enhancing confidence, emotional stamina and resilience. On-call emergency crisis response / group intervention / management consultation related to workplace events (suicide, homicide, industrial or work accidents, violence and aggression, etc.). HEALTH CANADA 2020 - PRESENT MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELLOR  Providing mental health services to children adolescents, adults, families and couples for anxiety, depression, alcohol or substance use, work stress, trauma, family or couple conflict, etc. Clients include the RCMP and both Canadian Armed Forces Members as well as Veterans and those from over 60 federal Government Departments and Agencies. HOMEWOOD HEALTH CRISIS MANAGEMENT SERVICES SPECIALIST 2020 - PRESENT  Homewood Health was the first Canadian EFAP provider to introduce on-site workplace trauma response involving debriefings, defusings, and other Crisis Management Services (CMS). It was developed in response to the growing awareness of the impact that workplace crisis and employee victimization can have on employees and organizations.  For the past three decades, CMS Specialists at Homewood Health have provided prompt, compassionate, and effective responses to traumatic events. Our CMS team frequently responds to high profile and high risk incidents, which include, most recently, the train derailment and explosion in Lac Mégantic, the 2013 Calgary floods, the RCMP shootings in Moncton, the disappearance and murder of a boy and his grandparents in Calgary and the attack and crash of Malaysia flight MH17 over Ukraine. Education Certificat, d`études sur la sexualité humaine, Laval University, Faculty of Medicine, Québec • Concentration on the effects of trauma, anxiety and alcohol and substance abuse on emotional and sexual intimacy and couple attachment. Certification: Drug Abuse and Mental Health; Clinical Evaluation. Health Canada, Conseil Autochthone D’Agrement Professional du Canada (CAAAPC). (2015). • Accredited by the First Nations Wellness/Addictions Counsellor Certification Board (FNWACCB). M.S.W., Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri • Specialization in Group Therapy, (and Teaching Assistant for Advanced Group Therapy Graduate Course). Thesis: “The Primary Prevention of Delayed Stress-Reaction Syndrome in Military Personnel”. • Did fieldwork with Vietnam Veterans at the U.S. Veterans Administration “Vet Center” • Research, training and clinical work at the USA Medical Headquarters (Mental Health), Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Including training and work with the Army Drug and Alcohol Control and Prevention Program (ADAPCP). B.A., Psychology, Personality and Abnormal Psychology McGill University, Montréal • Research: In Vivo Social Skills Training Development in Individuals with Social Anxiety