Professional Allies: Why Align with us

With over 25 years of lived and professional experience, Autumn Rock holds Certificates in Somatic Attachment and Integrative Trauma Therapies.  She is an Internationally Certified Life and Recovery Coach and Addictions Awareness Facilitator and a trained Interventionist.  For a full list of certificates please see the last page of this manual.  She has been fiercely pursuing equity, inclusion, success and safer more adequate and effective spaces for those in need of healing and recovery for decades.  She has served as the CV Pride Society President, Mikisiw Metis Association Director, Advisor to the Board for the Canadian Centre For Women's Empowerment and is a twice nominated Keynote speaker for the Women Who Inspire Conferences, 2019 and 2020.  In these trusted positions, she has done everything from facilitating national conversations around domestic abuse within the 2SLGBTQIAA+ communities to providing front line services to the unsheltered community in the midst of the International Covid Crisis.  She believes that in creating safer spaces we provide the foundation from which we build recovery, post traumatic resilience, healthier bodies, minds and spirits and grow together in connection and community.

With 31+ years of professional and lived experience with addictions recovery, Nicolle Nattrass CAC II is an Author, Addiction Counselor, part of the Journal Council with the International Association for Journal Writing, Maternal mental health advocate, Keynote Speaker and Consultant on trauma-informed care & education. Nominated as Women Who Inspire at the WWI 2020 Conference, she has created 5 Journaling programs with a focus on self-care, to help heal trauma, addiction, family disconnection and to support recovery in all areas. Her 6 module program, CJ: The Promises of Recovery is currently launched with WestCare’s outpatient clinic in Florida as a stabilization tool.(2021-2013). She is an approved CEU Provider with the CACCF, CJ: Self-Care for the Helping Professional (6 CEUS) www.caccf.ca and now trains educators, counselors and helping professionals in how to facilitate journaling with a trauma-informed lens. She is one of the top 50 experts in the field of Journaling, Nicolle is the Author of Just the Two of Us, A Soft Place for Tender Hearts to Land, Zebra Ink 2020. She is also contributing author in the following books: The Coaches Guide to Completing Creative Work (Routledge Press, 2023), The Great Book of Journaling, How Journal Writing Can Support a life of Wellness, Creativity, Meaning and Purpose (Conari Press, 2022), Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists and Clients (Routledge Press, 2021), You are Not Alone, An Anthology of Perinatal Mental Health Stories (Wintertickle Press, 2020)

Jessie Blaire:  brings 10+ years of experience working with both male-identified, female-identified, Transgender, and non-binary people who struggle with substance use and is a fierce JEDI(Justice Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) advocate in our world. They have worked for organizations such as John Howard Society, Circle of Eagles Lodge Society (Anderson Lodge program), Atira Women’s Resource Society and Four Feathers Society. They have served on the Board of Directors for the Vancouver Metis Community Association, Four Feathers Society, Evelyn Saller Centre, and a committee for the Greater Vancouver Interactive Arts Society. They also have graduated from Substance Use Counselling (certificate) program at Vancouver Community College.