Kendra is a clinical social worker who has spent the last four years working with children, youth, and parents as a mental health therapist with the Children’s Team with Community Mental Health (Charlottetown).  Kendra has a Master of Social Work degree from the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, B.C. and spent the last eight years training in evidence-based treatments to support children and youth with anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, emotion dysregulation, self-harm, suicide, and parent/child relationship ruptures. 

As a clinician with the Children’s Team, Kendra worked with youth with moderate to severe mental health difficulties and their parents.  Kendra provided a range of treatments including Comprehensive DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy), CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) for anxiety, CBT-ERP (Exposure Response Prevention) for OCD, Trauma-Focused CBT, FBT (Family-Based Treatment) for Eating Disorders as well as parent work informed by Emotion-Focused Skills Training and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy.  

Previous to her work with the Children’s Team, Kendra worked in mental health and addictions, providing Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to target substance use and facilitating the Seeking Safety program (an evidence-based model from trauma and addiction). 

Before entering the world of social work and mental health, Kendra completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at St. Thomas University, with majors in both Human Rights and Political Science (Honours).  In the years that followed, she worked and volunteered with community advocacy groups and facilitated youth leadership programs with the service-learning organization, Katimavik, before returning to school to complete her MSW.  Kendra values the role that healthy communities and community organizations play in creating conditions for mental wellness.  

In her work with IPC, Kendra is keen to support mental wellness for Islanders by providing mental health treatment using evidence-based modalities.  As a member of the larger community, she will continue to support the work of organizations that contribute to the mental wellness of Islanders in other valuable ways.