Psychotherapist & Consultant

• Sep 2014 - Present

• Registered social worker offering individual psychotherapy services• Provide mental health case consultations and in-service training• Provide anti-racism/anti-oppression, diversity and equity consulting & training tailored to organizational needs

Vodcast Host, The CBT Dive

• Jul 2021 - Present

Each episode welcomes a new guest who wants to explore a challenging situation using the most common cognitive behavioural therapy tool: the thought record. I've created this vodcast to support folks who want to learn how to use this clinical tool and to demystify what therapy can look like.WATCH & SUBSCRIBE at thecbtdive.caLISTEN at thecbtdive.buzzsprout.com

Sessional Lecturer

• Aug 2020 - Present

F2020 / F2021:SMF 208 - Introduction to Systemic Therapies and Anti-Oppressive PracticesW2022:SMF 309 - Sex Therapy F2020 / F2021:SMF 208 - Introduction to Systemic Therapies and Anti-Oppressive PracticesW2022:SMF 309 - Sex Therapy

International Visiting Scholar

• Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

Sessional Lecturer

• Aug 2020 - Jul 2021

F2020:SWK 4107H Foundations of Social Work: Knowledge, Theory and Values that Inform PracticeF2020 & S2021:SWK 4670H Cybercounselling and Social Work Practice F2020:SWK 4107H Foundations of Social Work: Knowledge, Theory and Values that Inform PracticeF2020 & S2021:SWK 4670H Cybercounselling and Social Work Practice

Mental Health Counselor / Clinical Coordinator

• May 2014 - Aug 2020

• Collaborate with providers on an interdisciplinary health team toward integrated treatment goals for clients• Provide individual psychotherapy to LGBTQ, low-income, and racialized folks • Facilitate substance use therapy group• Coordinate graduate student placements and walk-in counselling program • Provide individual and group supervision to counselling students and youth resource workers • Collaborate with providers on an interdisciplinary health team toward integrated treatment goals for clients• Provide individual psychotherapy to LGBTQ, low-income, and racialized folks • Facilitate substance use therapy group• Coordinate graduate student placements and walk-in counselling program • Provide individual and group supervision to counselling students and youth resource workers

Sessional Lecturer

• Jan 2018 - Apr 2019

W18 SWP 341 Transformative Social Work PracticesW19 SWP 341 Transformative Social Work Practices W18 SWP 341 Transformative Social Work PracticesW19 SWP 341 Transformative Social Work Practices

Instructor, Field Placement Supervisor, Curriculum Consultant

• Sep 2014 - Aug 2016

a) Courses taught in Community Dev'l & Social Service Worker programs:-Communication Fundamentals (F14, F15)-Power, Privilege & Oppression (F15)b) SSW Field Placement Supervision (W15)c) Courses developed in Addiction & Mental Health Worker program (AMHW):-Integrated Approaches to AMH-Stigma in AMH-Prevention, Harm Reduction, & Mental Health Promotion -Special Issues in AMH a) Courses taught in Community Dev'l & Social Service Worker programs:-Communication Fundamentals (F14, F15)-Power, Privilege & Oppression (F15)b) SSW Field Placement Supervision (W15)c) Courses developed in Addiction & Mental Health Worker program (AMHW):-Integrated Approaches to AMH-Stigma in AMH-Prevention, Harm Reduction, & Mental Health Promotion -Special Issues in AMH

Sessional Instructor

• Sep 2015 - Jun 2016

Courses in SSW:-Substance Use (F15)-Concurrent Disorders (W16) Courses in SSW:-Substance Use (F15)-Concurrent Disorders (W16)

Clinical Counsellor

• May 2013 - Aug 2014

• Provided short and longer-term individual counselling and case management for adolescents 14-18 years of age• Provided time-limited home-based counselling ("Keeping Families Together"​ program) for families referred from child welfare agencies; Skills used: assessment, case formulation, and goal-directed family counselling.• Co-facilitated an anxiety/social skills group ("Boyzone"), two 12-week cycles• Provided school-based counselling service for hard-to-reach students; Skills used: client engagement, psychoeducation, solution-focused brief therapy and program coordination

Bathhouse Counsellor, TowelTalk

• Oct 2010 - Feb 2014

TowelTalk is a bathhouse counselling program that aims to reduce the transmission of HIV/STIs and improve the overall sexual health of diverse communities of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.• Provided nuanced, brief, and anonymous counselling in Toronto's bathhouses for priority populations within the MSM group (i.e. men who use drugs and alcohol and have sex, older men, HIV positive men, men who are new to Canada, straight-identified and/or bisexual men, trans people, young men, sex workers, men who seek condomless sex, and men who are socially or economically marginalized). • Skills used: clinical counselling, sexual health/risk assessment; program development, evaluation, and promotion

Counsellor/Tester & Project Coordinator

• Jun 2011 - Mar 2013

• Coordinated program called "Making the Links: Connecting Gay/Bi Men to Community HIV Prevention Programming" • Provided point-of-care rapid and standard HIV testing; skills used: triage, sexual health history interview, medical note-taking, venipuncture, prevention/management education, patient follow-up• Provided intensive post-test HIV/STI prevention/sexual health education and brief therapeutic/clinical counselling for larger psychosocial issues• Referred men who access services at the clinic to relevant community-based health and social services• Identified, gathered and disseminated resources developed by agencies in Toronto for men who have sex with men

Addictions Counsellor (Rainbow Services), MSW Intern

• Sep 2010 - Mar 2011

• Conducted psychosocial assessments for addictions services• Co-facilitated structured relapse prevention group and gay men's concurrent disorders group• Developed and delivered psychoeducational modules for residential/inpatient program • Conducted psychosocial assessments for addictions services• Co-facilitated structured relapse prevention group and gay men's concurrent disorders group• Developed and delivered psychoeducational modules for residential/inpatient program

Trauma Project, MSW Intern

• Jul 2010 - Aug 2010

Conducted research and developed practice recommendations on becoming more trauma-informed at a service and organizational level. Conducted research and developed practice recommendations on becoming more trauma-informed at a service and organizational level.

HIV and Episodic Disability Initiatives, MSW Intern

• Jan 2010 - May 2010

Newcomer MSM Resource Development Project Assistant

• Oct 2009 - Mar 2010

MSM Outreach Coordinator

• Jan 2009 - Sep 2009

Peer Outreach Worker

• Jun 2008 - Jan 2009

Teaching Aide (TA)

• Jan 2005 - Apr 2008

Sexuality, Marriages & Family Studies (SMF) Department Sexuality, Marriages & Family Studies (SMF) Department