Certified OAMHP Member
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Brenda holds a Masters in Sociology/Community Development with extensive experiential training in counselling psychology, human diversity, neuroscience, and strategic management. Regulated to practice psychotherapy in Ontario (CRPO 006115) and qualified as a registered health planning professional, Brenda’s certifications include addictions counsellor, telehealth counsellor, and clinical hypnotherapist. As a serial entrepreneur, over a 42-year career, Brenda directs and guides a multi-service structure that facilitates growth through customized curricular encounters using immersive medical technology and a storied approach. Brenda’s approach is influenced by humanist, behavioural, existential, relational and structural psychology; as well as cross-cultural training; and by the positive influence over mind and body using movement. Having overcome adversity by building a sustainable corporation as a platform for developing strengths and self-determination, Brenda is an effective career management professional equipped to service the occupational medicine, environmental health, and universal health promotion fields. As a qualified clinical supervisor and professional development coach
Adolescent, Addiction, Anger Management, Anxiety, Attachment, Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism, Bereavement, Bi-polar, Bullying, Couples, Depression, Disability, Drugs/ Substance Use, Domestic Abuse, Eating Disorders, Family, Financial Stress, LGBTQ2+, Life Skills, Post-Traumatic Stress, Relationships, Schizophrenia, Self-harm, Sexuality, Self Confidence, Sexual Abuse, Sleep, Stress, Suicide, Traumatic Brain Injury, Workplace Stress
Behavioural Activation, Brief Psychotherapy, Client-centred Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Exposure Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Gestalt, Hypnotherapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Mindfulness Based Therapy, Relational Therapy, Somatic Therapy