Training

Elise Harris has been an educator, writer and psychotherapist in the Ottawa area for the past 15 years.  She maintains a strong commitment to social justice and uses this lens to situate individual problems. She has taught and created content about the following topics:

  • Trauma-Informed Practices

  • The Impacts of Childhood/Developmental Trauma and Trauma Recovery

  • Understanding and Treating Addictions/Substance Use Disorder

  • The Intersections between Addiction, Trauma, and Mental Health

For more information please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Community Training Examples

Stigma Ends at Carleton University Spring Symposium, April 2022

  • 90-minutes filmed virtual presentation as part of Carleton University’s initiative to end the stigma of Substance Use Disorder on the intersections of addiction, trauma and gender

Algonquin College - Course Facilitation and Curriculum Development, January 2018-June 2019

  • Created curriculum and taught the Addictions and Harm Reduction course in the Community and Justice Services program

City of Ottawa, Community Capacity Building Initiative, June 2018

  • Co-presented with Gundel Lake on trauma-informed practice and the connections between experiences of violence substance use, and mental illness for women to front-line staff who worked with people experiencing homelessness

City of Ottawa, Community Capacity Building Initiative, May 2017

  • Co-presented with Ann-Marie O’Brien on trauma-informed practice and the connections between experiences of violence, substance use, and mental illness for women to front-line staff

Royal Ottawa Hospital Grand Rounds - Broadcast Provincially via the Ontario Telemedicine Network, February 2017

  • Co-presented with Ann-Marie O’Brien and Tara Leech on the connections between experiences of violence, substance use, and mental illness for women to staff at the Royal Ottawa Hospital, as well as staff from other agencies, hospitals, and jails across the province

Carleton University - Guest Lecturer in a Bachelor of Social Work Course, November 2016

  • Presented as a guest lecturer on the connections between trauma and addiction in the Drugs and Society course

Carleton University - Guest Lecturer in a Master of Social Work Course, March 2015

  • Presented on sexual violence, feminism and addiction in a course on Feminist Practice

Carleton University - International Women’s Day Panel Discussion, March 2012

  • Presented on the connections between sexual violence and addiction as part of a panel discussion on gender and sexual violence