Videos
Indigenous Knowledge to Close Gaps in Indigenous Health
Dr. Marcia Anderson-DeCoteau
Dr. Anderson DeCoteau is a Cree-Saulteaux physician working in predominantly administrative/policy/planning type roles. She strives to ground mainstream systems approaches to Indigenous health in Indigenous rights, and Indigenous understandings and teachings around health, being healthy, and healing which sometimes requires challenging definitions of science and evidence.
Decolonizing Substance Use & Addiction | Len Pierre
Len Pierre
Len Pierre is Coast Salish from Katzie First Nation. His background is primarily in the area of Indigenous Education but also includes Child Care Counselling, Television and Radio Broadcast, and more recently Adult Education. Len is the Indigenous Cultural Safety Coordinator at Fraser Health Authority. His work includes overseeing the regional development of policies, resources, education and training modules to support healthcare providers in delivering safe and equitable care.
What is Religious Trauma?
Content warning: could be triggering for physical, sexual, and/or emotional harm experienced in religious settings.
In this short interview, Michelle Panchuk (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Murray State University) defines what religious trauma is.
Introducing Clients to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.
By Dr. Otilia (Tilli) Rodrigues
Psychologist/ Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist.
“The body carries the legacy of trauma and attachment dynamics in procedural habits of movement, posture, and nervous system regulation that can keep clients stuck in the past. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) actively incorporates awareness of the body into clinical practice, targeting the habits of physical action, autonomic dysregulation, and posture.” - Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.