Christie Byvelds ( She/Her )
Contract Instructor
- BA Hons (Queen’s), MSW (ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´)
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Christie Byvelds (she/her) is a registered social worker with experience in mental health, working with children, teens, young adults, and parents. Her clinical work has included roles in outpatient mental health at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), group-based programming at the Child, Adolescent and Family Centre of Ottawa (CAFCO), and her private practice, Mindbloom Therapy. She holds a Master of Social Work from ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology from Queen’s University.
In addition to her clinical work, Christie is deeply committed to social work education and mentorship. She has been teaching with the School of Social Work at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University for over ten years, with experience across a range of courses including research methods, statistics, direct practice, and field placement seminars.
Christie has experience in consulting and research with government and international non-profit organizations, including Plan International and the Red Cross. Her work has focused on research design, statistical analysis, and program evaluation.
She is a co-author of Statistics for Social Justice, a textbook aimed at making statistical concepts more accessible to social work students, and co-editor of Mothering and Social Exclusion, which explores the intersections of motherhood and marginalization.
Her work is informed by anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed perspectives. As a queer, cisgender settler, she is attentive to the ways in which intersecting identities shape experiences of care, education, and access, and she is committed to fostering inclusive and critically engaged learning and practice environments.