Laurel has a degree in Public Relations, specializing in
event management, media relations and public speaking with a passion for
suicide awareness, prevention and trauma education. With over 9 years of education and
professional experience working as a Peer Support Specialist, safeTALK Trainer
and Advocate for those living with mental illness, Laurel also shares her
personal experiences of suicide loss and surviving trauma. In 2007, she founded the Halifax Walk for
World Suicide Prevention Day and continues to coordinate this event today.
A dynamic public speaker with a quirky sense of humour,
Laurel is available to speak on topics including: adoption and being an adoptee
(with a focus on adoption trauma and reunion issues), suicide loss, living with
PTSD, her experience completing treatment at Homewood Health Centre, Compassion
Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma.
To contact Laurel for a future speaking engagement, or if
you’re looking for a suicide loss/trauma training subject matter expert, please
email laurelw25@yahoo.ca for more information.
