Clinical Social Worker and Trauma Therapist
Private Practice
Markham, ON, Canada
Jillian Hosey, MSW RSW, LICSW is a Clinical Social Worker, Trauma Therapist, and Consultant in a collaborative Private Practice in Toronto Canada, providing psychotherapy to children, youth, and adults with histories of attachment disruption, complex trauma, and dissociation. She is a graduate of York University's MSW program in Toronto, Canada. Grounded in a psychodynamic, phase-oriented approach to treatment, Jillian integrates a variety of trauma and dissociation specific modalities into her work, tailoring her approach to the unique needs of each client. Jillian is trained in EMDR Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Ego State Therapy, Deep Brain Reorienting, and Clinical Hypnosis, with ASCH. She is an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Consultant and an EMDR Trainer, a facilitator with the AGATE Institute (Ana Gomez Attachment Trauma Education Institute) and Faculty with the ISSTD’s Professional Training Program and EMDR Therapy Training Program. She has presented on integrating the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) into EMDR Therapy at the Child and Adolescent Complex Trauma Conference 2019 and the SSP Gatherings with Dr. Stephen Porges in 2019 and 2022. She is the lead author of the Clinical guidelines and considerations for integrating the Safe and Sound Protocol into EMDR Therapy, a chapter on Therapeutic presence and the therapeutic relationship as both trigger and container to healing in E. Christenson’s (Ed.), Perspectives of Dissociative Identity Response: Ethical, Historical, and Cultural Issues, and the co-editor and contributing author for the Handbook for Child Complex Trauma and Dissociation: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications (Routledge, In Press). Jillian was awarded Fellow Status with the ISSTD in 2022 and is winner of the 2022 ISSTD Distinguished Achievement Award.
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Saturday, April 15, 2023
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM US Eastern Time