Supervision Service Providers

Information on where our service providers are located, how they provide their services and how to contact them can be found in the "Contact Information" section under each image.

Dr. Richard Csiernik

Dean Anderson

Steve Didham

Brenda Sedgwick

Dean Anderson is an International & Canadian Certified Addiction Counselor CCAC, ICADC from London, ON. He currently wears many hats in the addiction and recovery communities, including being a Private Practice Counselor, MAP Service Provider, Consultant, and NRT Practitioner. His experience includes withdrawal management, residential treatment, peer support, residential trauma, private care, and several volunteering ventures. His dedication to the field is reflected in the multiple committees, programs, and community events, including chairing the Community of Practice for the CACCF.

Rick Csiernik (they/them), BSc, BSW, MSW, PhD, RSW, CCAC is Professor, School of Social Work, King's University College in London, Ontario. Rick has been a social worker for over four decades, having written 10 books, edited nine, including The Essential Guide to Psychoactive Drugs in Canada, Substance Use and Misuse: Everything Matters, and Workplace Wellness. He has contributed to over 250 peer reviewed publications, made nearly as many public presentations and has been part of research teams receiving over $5 million in funding during his career.

Steve is a Registered Social Worker with 22 years of clinical experience in various sectors, including child welfare, custody/access, mental health, addictions, and academia, among others. He is the owner and principal consultant at Phoenix Consulting and Counselling, an OACAS equity facilitator and Supervisor at the Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex. He is also a part-time Lecturer at Kings University College. He has worked in the equity field for several years, providing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion training for the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies and other social service sectors, including academia, non-profit organizations and others.

Dr. Tracy Smith-Carrier

Dr. Tracy Smith-Carrier is an Associate Professor and the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the School of Humanitarian Studies at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Smith-Carrier has years of experience conducting research and evaluation projects in the academic, community, government, and non-profit sectors. Her program of research touches upon various fields in the social policy arena, including access to social welfare benefits, social assistance receipt, food and income in/security, basic income, poverty, and climate justice. She is the Chair of the National Forum Strategic Planning Committee for a Basic Income Guarantee in Canada, and editor of the Taylor & Francis journal Critical Policy Studies.

Rocco Gizzarelli

Rocco Gizzarelli is a trained social worker with over 32 years’ experience working with children, youth and families to address issues of violence in relationships. One of his specialties is in the area of sexual abuse treatment and assessment of individuals who have committed a sexual offense. Rocco also has extensive experience working with trauma and men who are adult survivors of sexual abuse/assault. Rocco has won accolades for his clinical experience serving the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, Indigenous, Racialized and Immigrant communities.

I am Brenda Sedgwick. I hold a Masters in Sociology with extensive experiential training in counselling psychology and human diversity. I am registered to practice psychotherapy in Ontario (CRPO 006115). I am additionally licensed as a certified addictions counsellor, certified telehealth counsellor, and certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. I provide private counselling and through Employee Assistance Programs and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). For organizations interested in growth, I am additionally qualified as a Registered Professional Planner and performing clinical evaluative sciences. Currently, I am studying neuroscience.