Psychotherapist & PhD student
Brock University
Welland, ON, Canada
Meghan Maynard, M.A., R.P. is a registered psychotherapist and Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Education at Brock University. Meghan holds a Master of Arts in counselling psychology from Yorkville University and a Bachelor of Community Welfare, specializing in youth work, from Western Sydney University. Meghan has worked in the field of mental health since 2002 in a variety of treatment settings, including residential treatment, day treatment, hospital in-patient treatment, and private practice. Meghan's clinical work focuses both on child and adolescent mental health and adult survivors of childhood trauma. Meghan has expertise in supporting children and adults experiencing challenges of emotional regulation , including challenges associated with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Pathological Demand Avoidance, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. As a Ph.D. student in the field of cognition and learning, Meghan's research interests are varied and include intergenerational trauma transmission and intervention, parenting and PTSD, responsive and attachment-focused parenting, trauma-informed classrooms, teacher emotional well-being and self-reflexive practice, mentalization, mindfulness and self-compassion, and the healing power of relationships. Meghan approaches her work from neurobiological, polyvagal, and attachment-informed perspectives, grounded in the adaptive information processing model. Meghan currently works with the Theory of Mind in Education (ToMe) lab at Brock university while pursuing her Ph.D Through the ToMe lab Meghan is pleased to be involved in longitudinal adolescent development research focusing on negative affect perception (social threat perception), and self-compassion, self-control, mindfulness and mental representations of self. Meghan's most recent publication with the ToMe lab research team explores the interconnectivity among hypervigilant social threat perception, self-control challenges, and critical self-responding.
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Saturday, April 15, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM US Eastern Time