Our Mandate and Philosophy
Our Mission
Our mission is to deliver trauma-informed services while safeguarding confidentiality and upholding dignity, inclusion, and integrity. We are committed to using evidence-based practices rooted in openness and transparency to protect and support all participants.
We strive to enhance the well-being of individuals and organizations by providing early intervention, as well as pathways for healing, repair, and the restoration of healthy functioning.
For workplaces, we offer comprehensive trauma-informed training, counseling, consulting, and coaching services designed to cultivate psychological health and safety for all. Through our work, we aim to create environments where individuals feel valued, supported, and empowered to thrive.
Our Approach
We believe in fostering open and honest dialogue on the issues that matter most to individuals and organizations. Through transparency, expertise, and wisdom, we provide realistic assessments of each situation and explore meaningful, evidence-based solutions.
We view our clients as collaborative partners in a shared journey toward resolution and repair. True healing and transformation emerge through dialogue, trust, and proactive problem-solving.
Our ethically grounded, trauma-informed interventions, combined with affordable and effective solutions, empower individuals and organizations to navigate challenges and create sustainable, psychologically safe environments.
Our Mandate
We are dedicated to fostering psychological safety in workplaces by providing trauma-informed prevention, early intervention, restorative, and repair services. Our approach ensures that individuals and organizations receive the support needed to prevent harm, address challenges proactively, and restore well-being in a sustainable and ethical manner.
Support and Resources for Employers, Leaders, Groups and Individuals
We believe the first steps to enhancing psychological safety in the workplace is to build knowledge, stimulate open discussions, teach on the early warning signs, tactics, profiles, prevalence, and causes of harassment and violence. In addition, offer solutions. Workers need to have an understanding and language to identify what is happening to them. Employers, leaders, and employees need tools to address this complex phenomenon. With information, skills, and tools, leaders and employees can prevent and/or intervene earlier before any harm has occurred.
Harassment and violence are costly for all people involved. It can destroy organizations, reputations, careers, lives, and cost multiple millions each year when it is not addressed appropriately. It is recommended that you utilize qualified, experienced, licensed professionals, for this will save you injuries, damages, and the resulting costs. You want to prevent secondary injuries caused by innocent mistakes, decrease recruitment and insurance costs, and improve productivity.
CIWBR offers support and resources to employers, leaders, teams, groups, and individuals. This includes those who are experiencing harassment (targets or complainants), those witnessing this abuse (bystanders or witnesses), and also those identified for acting out with harassing or violent behaviours (respondents or perpetrators). We offer training, consultants, work culture assessments, investigations, coaching, and clinical treatment from a trauma informed, holistic perspective. All services are provided with a trauma informed, holistic perspective.
In our clinical practices, we work with those impacted by depression, anxiety, difficult life transitions, struggling with difficult decisions, low self esteem, grief and loss, trauma, and more. We have 33+ years of experience in professional social work, including 10+ years as a masters degree social worker in clinical practise, certified somatic experiencing trauma therapy, EMDR, Prolonged Exposure, CBT, and certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner. Our institute is also home to a trained investigator, member of ACSW, IAWBH, Star Alumni WBI, graduate of U of C, and a GOA Award and U of C Alumni Award winner.
What types of issues can our workplace training services address? Situations involving workplace bullying, psychological harassment, psychological violence, psychological hazards, mobbing and lateral violence.