Practitioner-Research Network
Mira Rozenberg
MA, RDT/BCT, OPQ Permit
Mira Rozenberg is a psychotherapist, registered drama therapist, and body worker in Montreal. She specializes in healing symptoms of traumatic stress and PTSD through psychotherapeutic and somatic practices, such as yoga, movement and dramatic play. She is passionate about working with the whole person in the realm of one's individual lived experience, and systemically in the context of collective traumas. She attunes to narratives of strengths and resiliency that transcend the traumas. She is also a mother, and passionate about supporting the birth and family experience through connection, education and empowerment.
Leonora Indira King
Community Organizer and PhD Candidate
Leonora is finishing up her PhD in Psychiatry at McGill University where her research focus is maternal health and resilient outcomes in children. She believes that by supporting mothers and their families, we can foster healthier children and build stronger societies. She is an active member of two cooperatives: Brick-by-Brick, a community-housing project designated for vulnerable families in Parc-Ex and Tiger Lotus Coop (TLC) a wellness project centered around reproductive and maternal health. As a community organizer, she acts as a liaison between various organizations, partners and networks – with the intention of building community. She also loves to host dance parties and deejay for kids and their families.
Courtney Kirkby
Massotherapist, Doula, Community Activist
Courtney Kirkby is an Arvigo Therapist, co-founder of Tiger Lotus Coop and advocate for the accessibility of alternative health to the most marginalized folks. Her experience as a massage therapist, doula and community activist have all led her to work with and honour the sacred organ and our creative centre: the uterus. She specializes in reproductive health and justice, and digestive issues.
Nicole Anne D’Souza
Qualitative Researcher, PhD, MSc
Nicole D'Souza is a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University in the Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry. She is a mental health researcher whose work focuses on the processes shaping the implementation and outcomes of community-based family-oriented interventions and services in low- and high-income settings. She is particularly interested in community-based approaches to delivering health services and interventions. Specifically, her work focuses on issues of collective and intergenerational trauma, resilience, attachment and child development. She has collaborated on projects investigating the history of violence and impact of coloniality on children and families in Jamaica, violence and trauma in Indigenous communities in Peru and Canada, and the integration and support of asylum-seeking and migrant families in Montreal. She trained in social, cultural and community mental health, with a PhD in Social & Transcultural Psychiatry from McGill University.
