Denise Michelle Brend

Denise Michelle Brend, PhD, is passionate about identifying and mitigating the ways in which exposure to potentially traumatic experiences and traumatized institutions can impact helping relationships, individuals, and communities. Denise has over twenty years of experience as a psychotherapist, social worker, clinical supervisor, clinical trainer, and facilitator of learning. Currently an Associate Professor at Laval University in Quebec City and a Canadian Consortium on Child and Youth Trauma co-researcher, Denise’s research is focusing on the potentially harmful impacts of working in various contexts such as, child welfare, prisons and jails, community organizations; and examining how to make workplaces motors of wellbeing.