Jillian Hosey, MSW, RSW, LICSW
Jillian Hosey, MSW RSW, LICSW is a Clinical Social Worker, Trauma Therapist, and Consultant in a collaborative Private Practice in Toronto Canada, providing psychotherapy to children, youth, and adults with histories of attachment disruption, complex trauma, and dissociation. She is a graduate of York University's MSW program in Toronto, Canada. Grounded in a psychodynamic, phase-oriented approach to treatment, Jillian integrates a variety of trauma and dissociation specific modalities into her work, tailoring her approach to the unique needs of each client. Jillian is trained in EMDR Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Ego State Therapy, Deep Brain Reorienting, and Clinical Hypnosis, with ASCH. She is an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Consultant and an EMDR Trainer, a facilitator with the AGATE Institute (Ana Gomez Attachment Trauma Education Institute) and Faculty with the ISSTD’s Professional Training Program and EMDR Therapy Training Program. She has presented on integrating the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) into EMDR Therapy at the Child and Adolescent Complex Trauma Conference 2019 and the SSP Gatherings with Dr. Stephen Porges in 2019 and 2022. She is the lead author of the Clinical guidelines and considerations for integrating the Safe and Sound Protocol into EMDR Therapy, a chapter on Therapeutic presence and the therapeutic relationship as both trigger and container to healing in E. Christenson’s (Ed.), Perspectives of Dissociative Identity Response: Ethical, Historical, and Cultural Issues, and the co-editor and contributing author for the Handbook for Child Complex Trauma and Dissociation: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications (Routledge, In Press). Jillian was awarded Fellow Status with the ISSTD in 2022 and is winner of the 2022 ISSTD Distinguished Achievement Award.

Billie Jo Bennett, MSW, RSW, CPT
Billie-Jo Bennett, MSW RSW CPT, is a Registered Social Worker, Trauma and Attachment Therapist, as well as a Certified Play Therapist with the Canadian Association for Play therapy (CAPT), in Private Practice in Cambridge Ontario, Canada. She graduated with her Master of Social work degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2017. Billie-Jo has worked with complex trauma and dissociation in various capacities over the span of her career, including twenty years in child welfare settings prior to her transition into clinical private practice. Billie-Jo is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and Supervisor in training through CAPT. She is an integrative EMDR therapist who uses the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model as her guide while incorporating various modalities including Play therapy, Theraplay, Sandtray Therapy, and Neurofeedback with children, adolescents and adults. Additionally, she is a registered Circle of Security facilitator, and has extensive experience with providing parent support for children in adoptive and foster care settings. Billie-Jo has trained with Ana Gomez (AGATE) intensively on several occasions, and is currently completing the ISSTD’s Professional Training Program. Within ISSTD, she volunteers as the current ISSTD Child and Adolescent Special Interest group secretary, and current ISSTD EMDR Special Interest Group secretary elect. Billie-Jo is passionate about the healing power of play and the integration of play therapy with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, and cultivates this with her practicum students and consultees in her private practice. Billie-Jo is also very passionate about advancing awareness of dissociation and dissociative disorders in the community where she works, with local agencies and with her consultees.