Dawn McBride

Dr. Dawn McBride is an associate professor in the counsellor education program at the University of Lethbridge. She is also a registered psychologist, a supervisor for provisional psychologists, and a past ethics examiner for the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP). She has won numerous teaching awards and is an active volunteer helping women shelters in Canada during her travels. She is an international speaker, researcher, and writer. Her specialty areas include ethics (consent, documentation- session notes, boundaries, value based ethics),  supervision practices, online education, cultural issues, group therapy and process based therapies, transactional analysis, self-harm, family violence, and complex emotional (mental health) challenges. She maintains a small private practice in Lethbridge where she specializes in complex cases on a sliding scale whenever possible. She tends to practice from a psychodynamic orientation (e.g., ego state models including transactional analysis, believing our past influences our choices today) and frequently draws upon expressive arts, EMDR (Laurel Parnell's style), CBT (schema focused), narrative therapy, as well as somatic interventions.