Andrea Rivera is a Registered Counselling Therapist-Candidate and a Canadian Certified Counsellor working from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the past, Andrea supported immigrants and refugees by providing ESL Language Classes and supporting them through a variety of issues ranging from career development to mental health concerns.  After graduating with an M.Ed. in Counselling through the University of New Brunswick in 2020, She proceeded to open a private practice called Universal Consciousness Psychotherapy and Wellness. Additionally, due to her understanding of how isolating private practice can be, she started a group for Counselling Therapists of Nova Scotia where they meet to network and distribute counselling-related knowledge.

Andrea’s value to help others continues to be present in her life by providing support to individuals and couples through their current challenges via accessible video conference counselling appointments. Furthermore, she values the importance of knowledge and education, therefore continuing to contribute to the research, support, and development of online counselling services.

Dawn Schell has an MA in Counselling Psychology from Simon Fraser University.   Currently she works at the University of Victoria with the Student Mental Health Strategy   She  is also an Affiliate Counsellor with Worldwide Therapy Online Inc.  For the past ten years she has done online counselling, researched multiple venues of online counselling, designed a university online counselling system and  more recently regularly contributes to the CCPA blog.

Irish Dhindsa is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), a Wellness Coach, and a Therapeutic Arts Practitioner. Irish is presently completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and is doing her practicum at a virtual private practice. Irish is the Technology and Innovative Solutions chapter’s secretary and the Communications Director for the Creative Arts in Counselling and Psychotherapy chapter. Irish is interested in learning how technology can make therapy more accessible and how it will help psychotherapy evolve

Sherry Law is a Canadian Certified Counsellor, a Licensed Counselling Therapist, and past-president of the Technology and Innovative Solutions chapter of Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. She also sits on the board of the New Brunswick Career Development Agency as a director and serves as the president of the College of Counselling Therapists of New Brunswick.

She works as a counselling therapist in Fredericton, NB in collaboration with the Government of New Brunswick. Her interest in technology and passion for people drives her pursuit of integrating innovative technological solutions for mental health and wellness. She is researching independently into the therapeutic effects of virtual reality on adults in long-term care/seniors and has co-founded a company, Innerva Virtual Inc., driving her research findings

Michèle Mani M.Ed., RP, is a Registered Psychotherapist with over 18 years’ experience providing and supervising (asynchronous and synchronous) online counselling. Her key area of focus is supporting counsellors’ skill and competency development to deliver online, digital counselling.  Employing a variety of clinical models, Michèle’s core approach draws upon counsellors’ and clients’ essential strengths and capacities.  She is chapter co-author: “Supervising the delivery of online counselling services in an employee and family assistance program, (EFAP) setting” in the book: Technology in Mental Health: Applications in practice, supervision and training (2^nd ed., 2016).

Constance has a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Adler University (formerly Adler School of Professional Psychology) and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Victoria. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Canadian Certified Counsellor and Associate Power Coach with her own full-time private practice located in Vancouver, BC. Her counselling specialties include Relationships, Sex Therapy and Addictions, with specific expertise working with Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA).  Coaching specialities include business and career planning, effective communication, boundaries and assertiveness. www.ConstanceLynn.com
In addition to her clinical work, she founded The Business of Helping and provides strategic business consultation and training to therapists, counsellors and wellness professionals so they can build their own thriving private practices through the use of virtual and face-to-face strategy sessions, small group workshops and online training programs. www.TheBusinessOfHelping.com

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Lawrence Murphy is the founder of Worldwide Therapy Online, the world’s first online clinical practice, established in 1994. In 1998 he co-authored the first ethical code for online counselling. Mr. Murphy and his colleagues publish regularly in the academic literature, including their seminal 1998 work When Writing Helps to Heal: Email as Therapy, which has been cited more than 350 times. Therapy Online delivers two levels of training in cybercounselling and licenses online therapy. Since the pandemic began, Mr. Murphy has delivered more than 90 half-day trainings to a total of more than 10,000 mental health professionals across Canada.