Psychotherapist and Crisis Intervention Specialist
This dynamic presentation provides valuable information about the impact of trauma work on professional helpers who work in the most challenging jobs. Vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue are now seen as “the Cost of Caring” for these dedicated people on the front lines. It has become the personal price we pay as professional helpers in the fields of medical, health care, police, law, child welfare, shelters, trauma work, emergency and crisis responders, addictions, domestic violence, poverty, human trafficking, and working with the elderly and ill.
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Rebecca Brown's career has spanned over 37 years in medical social work, child welfare, and crisis response. The majority of her career was spent in the child protection system as a supervisor and coordinator of the Critical Incident Debriefing Team. Rebecca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Western University and a sought-after public speaker. She has been delivering workshops and conferences throughout Canada and the USA on the topics of vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and resilience to professionals in the trauma and health fields.
Rebecca’s clinical time is now shared between her private practice, which includes certification in EMDR and Equine Assisted Therapy. She is certified in Crisis Intervention and has been deployed to provide Psychological First Aid at tragic/traumatic events locally and internationally.
She recently published her first book, Shelter from Our Secrets, Silence & Shame: How Our Stories Can Keep Us Stuck or Set Us Free, and is currently writing her next book on burnout.
