Patricia Tuff

Patricia is a Child and Youth Care Practitioner and Social Worker who has been fortunate to work with children, youth, adults and families in a variety of inter-disciplinary settings including community health, group residential care, school-based, child welfare, and private practice individual and family psychotherapy. She is committed to the development and fostering of strengths-based, evidence-based, trauma-informed, harm-reducing and collaborative approaches ensuring person-centred practice. She works from anti-oppressive and anti-racist frameworks to better assess and understand individual and family needs, with the aim of building supportive and therapeutic relationships.

As a learner and teacher, Patricia is committed to fostering learning environments that accommodate diversities in learning styles and backgrounds. Her teaching philosophy hinges on advocacy, fostering safe learning environments and collaborative creation of an interactive and engaging environment. Patricia's goals are to promote a cooperative learning community and to build an environment that continually responds to needs of the profession and the community.