Bonnie Koehn facilitates the Centre for Family Equity’s Parental Mental Health Support for Survivors Program, and has contributed to the design and development of the program through 2023 to the present. Bonnie is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in private practice. Alongside her practice, she is committed to working with non-profit and charity organizations to support women and gender-diverse survivors of family violence and intimate partner violence in moving toward post-traumatic growth and recovery. She believes strongly that mental health care, social and community supports, family law reform, and socioeconomic opportunity are imperative to the well-being of those who have experienced family violence and intimate partner violence. Bonnie’s experiences as a survivor and single parent helped to build the foundation for her compassionate curiosity and her drive to create positive change through counselling, research, and advocacy.

Bonnie previously coordinated the Making Ends Meet project with First Call Child & Youth Society, a participatory research project that examined the challenges experienced by low-income families in the Lower Mainland. She also authored an academic research project called Fostering Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Holistic and Social Justice Framework for Healing.