Casey Category: Complex lives, mental health and stigma

Bill Gayner- Addressing Internalized Stigma

Bill Gayner, BSW, MSW, RSW, developed Emotion-Focused Mindfulness Therapy (EFMT), integrating Mindfulness-Based Interventions into Emotion-Focused Therapy to help people address internal conflicts and unfinished business, cultivate deep healing and growth, and better navigate their lives. Bill is a registered social worker and psychotherapist in the Centre for Emotion and Psychological Health in Toronto where he …

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Dr. Philip Berger – Activism & alliances: three decades in the world of AIDS

Dr. Berger was chief of St. Michael’s Department of Family and Community Medicine from 1997-2013, and currently serves as vice-chair of St. Michael’s Research Ethics Board, chair of Inner City Health Associates and associate professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Over his four-decade career, Dr. Berger has been a thorn in the side …

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Dr Francine Cournos – Making the case for mental health treatment in HIV/AIDS care

Francine Cournos, MD is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (in Epidemiology) at Columbia University. She is the Principal Investigator of the New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Project. Dr. Cournos has worked in the area of HIV/AIDS and mental illness since 1983, and has participated in numerous research projects, training grants, practice guidelines, and policy …

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