Dr. McBride has been in the helping profession for nearly 30 years and teaching in the counsellor education field for over 25 years. She has a long and extensive history of working in the family violence field–helping those who have been abusive, abused, and witnessed abuse–regain having loving, safe relationships. Her clinical areas of expertise range from the assessment and treatment of complex trauma and dissociation (e.g., family violence, motor vehicle accidents, work-related trauma), self-harm, personality disorder issues, work stress, anxiety, and OCD. She also enjoys helping those seeking personal growth such as therapists where she actively uses Transactional Analysis. She practices from a variety of theories which are described under the counselling tab (e.g., EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Structural Dissociation, Creative Expressive Arts).

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She has won numerous teaching awards, has co-edited a book on teaching practices across cultures in higher education, is working on a book on documentation and consent issues in counselling, and has presented at many international conferences. She was very honoured to receive an award from the Calgary Women's Shelter for providing exceptional clinical and ethical education to their staff.  In her role as as a tenured associate professor, she has an active research agenda that includes the study of ethics (value-based, best practices with record keeping, consent practices), the advanced use of many therapeutic approaches (e.g., emotional regulation, play therapies, group therapy, somatic interventions, expressive therapies, transactional analysis), multiculturalism, and supervision/training. If you need more more information about Dawn perhaps view her university webpage: http://directory.uleth.ca/users/dawn.mcbride.