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Indigenous (formerly Aboriginal) Focusing-Oriented Therapy Initiative

DaRa Williams speaks about AFOT: a radio interview

IFOT (formerly AFOT) & Complex Trauma January 7, 2017

As the program supervisor and an instructor for FII’s AFOT initiative, DaRa Williams was recently invited to speak about AFOT in a radio interview on  New York’s WBAI “Positive Mind”. Her approach to AFOT arises from her work with clients on issues of trauma, oppression […]

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Aboriginal Psychotherapy

IFOT (formerly AFOT) & Complex Trauma July 15, 2016

Shirley Turcotte, RCC, lived with and then worked on trauma for more than half a century, both as a survivor and as a trauma therapist. The daughter of a Métis Aboriginal father and a Russian Mennonite refuge mother, she used her own experiences and cultural strengths to develop ingenious, practical […]

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Focusing Oriented Therapy & Relational Consideration of Unresolved Trauma

IFOT (formerly AFOT) & Complex Trauma March 2, 2016

I have worked or lived in trauma for more than half a century, both as a survivor of trauma and as a trauma therapist. I am the daughter of a Métis Aboriginal father, who survived the generational impacts of genocidal colonization and residential school fallout; […]

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