• My work is informed and mobilized through my interconnected identities including my settler ancestry, and kinship with Secwepemc and metis communities; as a parent of three Secwepemc children, and part of the Neskonlith community; an academic; activist and sexual abuse counsellor.

I continue to practice as a clinical supervisor, educator and counsellor specializing in violence and trauma as well as a girls group facilitator for Indigenous girls. I have over 25 years experience in the area of trauma and violence with a focus on healing and resistance to violence and trauma, and the coping responses to trauma including self-harming, substance use, disordered eating and other survival responses.  I also consider the impact of colonial and gendered policies on Indigenous children, youth, families and communities. In addition to my role as a Full Professor at Thompson Rivers University in the School of Social Work, Natalie continues to practice including her ongoing work as a violence counsellor with Neskonlith Education Centre, and Indigenous girls group facilitator as well a board member with Wumec Secwepemc language society.

• Trauma and Violence Counsellor, Clinical Supervisor, Girls Group facilitator and specialist trainer on violence and  trauma
• Professor, School of Social Work,Thompson Rivers University teaching courses on trauma and violence informed practices; groups and practice
• Registered Social Worker
• Registered BC Play Therapy Association Member
• Email: nclark@tru.ca
• Phone: 1-250-377-1736

Education:

Bachelor of Social Work UBC (1990)

Masters of Social Work focus on healing from abuse and trauma (1992)

PhD with specialization in Secwepemcto healing children and youth from trauma (2018)