Our Team
Vanessa Woods
Vanessa Woods is a social worker in the forensic program at the ROMHC with clinical responsibilities partly for individuals with dysfunctional anger. She has received social work training from McGill University and is an Accredited Supervisor of the Albert Ellis Institute of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in New York City. Her research interests include gender and anger/aggression as well as the impact of anger and aggression upon family members and loved ones. She is passionate about ensuring access and support of services and resources to those who struggle with mental health issues and, as a result, is actively involved on the board of directors for the Roberts Smart Centre and Project Upstream, two mental health agencies in the community, and is also on the advisory panel for eMentalHealth.ca.