Brenda Maureen Sedgwick, RP CACC MA cert-S
About Me
Keeping up-to-date with recent knowledge, combined with close to 40-years' counselling experience, I provide creative, innovative, sustainable, and evidence-based solutions. Key areas of interest include social justice, lifestyle, mental health, addictions, and positive mindedness. I work with people, families, groups, work-teams, professional networks, and organizations to focus-in on their main areas of concern, and help them with personal growth, interpersonal wellness, and system enhancement strategies.
Education & Experience
Formal education in psychology, counselling psychology, community development, and systemic approaches. Master's level education. I complete more than 100 hours of continuing education credits annually with accredited training organizations. I specialize in Cognitive Therapy and using a client-centred approach that integrates appropriate adjunct therapies such as EMDR, Clinical Hypnosis, systemic therapies, somatic psychology (e.g., DARE); and innovations in couple and family therapy such as PACT and using DBT with high-arousal couples.
Professional & Volunteer Affiliations
President of a non-profit corporation that services people with developmental disabilities in a very large geographic catchment. Committee work with mental health professional association and a regulatory college and council.
Specialty Area
- Abuse/Neglect
- ADD/ADHD/Disruptive Behavior Disorders
- Addictions
- Adoption
- Alcohol/Substance Abuse
- Anger Management
- Anxiety/Panic Attacks
- Bipolar Disorder
- Chronic Illness/Medical Issues
- Chronic Pain
- Depression
- Domestic Violence
- Eating Disorders
- Grief/Loss/Mourning
- Marriage/Relationship Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Phobias
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Race, Culture, Ethnicity Issues
- Self-Harm
- Sexual Abuse
- Sleep Disorders
- Somatic Issues
- Spirituality
- Stress Management
- Suicide Risk
- Survivor's Guilt
- Traumatic Incident
Population Served
- Adolescents (13-17)
- Adults
- Community Mental Health Center
- Correctional Facility
- Couples
- Families
- First Responders
- Group
- LGBTQ+
- Residential Treatment Facility
- Seniors
- Underserved
- Veterans/Military
Language
- English
Insurance
Some insurers accept psychotherapy as reimbursable by extended health benefits
