Constantine R. Cabarios

Background

About Constantine R. Cabarios

Registered social worker with over 10+ years of combined volunteer and work experience within the mental health, immigration/settlement, and HIV/AIDS sectors. This includes collaborating with individuals, couples and groups through counselling & psychotherapy; workshop facilitation; community outreach; program planning and development; non-profit board policy development; community-based research participation; post-secondary instruction and teaching. I enjoy and feel privileged helping persons become "unstuck" through encouragement towards positive life changes, realization of potential and accomplishment of achievable goals. Professional practice experiences, influences and specialized interests- self-reflective/reflexive practice principles- anti-oppressive, strengths-based, holistic, resiliency/empowerment, client-centered approaches- recovery, harm reduction, sex-positive, trauma-informed frameworks- lifespan development and kinship, attachment theories; neuroplasticity- clinical counselling and insight driven psychotherapy- contemporary psycho-dynamic and integrative psychotherapy approaches- emotion focused therapy, solution-focused therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, dialetical behavioural therapy, motivational interviewing and narrative therapy techniques- community based/participatory research, course instruction/facilitation- capacity building projects, and access & equity initiatives.