Kristy Brosz
Mental Health Therapist, Registered Clinical Social Worker, Clinical Supervisor (ACSW), Rare Disease Advocate & Adoptive/Therapeutic Parent Advocate, Kristy Brosz Counselling & Consulting
Chronic Diseases, Rare Disease, Rare Blood Disorder, Hereditary Angioedema, Medical Social Work, Adoptive Parenting, Therapeutic Parenting, Trauma Informed Psychosocial Interventions
Media
Canada’s health-care system isn’t designed for parents with disabilities: experts
Global NewsOnline
URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/5925556/parenting-disability/
Biography
Kristy Brosz is a registered social worker and works as a medical/palliative counsellor with individuals, couples, and families. She is trained in Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT); Eye Movement and Sensitization Therapy (EMDR); Niemeyer’s Grief Therapy; Dignity Therapy; Gottman’s Couples Therapy; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT); and Cybercounselling.
Brosz is an adoptive mother who has combined her experience as a clinical social worker with her adoptive parent experience to write and publish her book, Healing with Pigtails: Finding Hope in the Hard of Therapeutic Parenting. In her book, she strives to highlight the emotional and trauma informed psycho-social experience of therapeutic parenting, while striving to help families find the layers of hope in the adoption journey. Brosz also has expertise as a rare disease advocate from her lived experience with ultra rare chronic disease. She published peer-reviewed articles and has spoken nationally and internationally on the psycho-social experience of Hereditary Angioedema for both patients and caregivers.