Brittany Godin

Brittany is one of our Master Trainers, Educators, and Developers at CCMI. She is also an independent consultant and trainer. She participated in supporting the original research for Brief Action Planning during its developmental stages and continues to train various health and helping professionals from various backgrounds. Brittany has been Training and supporting Train the Trainers for various topics with a trauma informed lens, and a special attention to person-centred empowerment, care and collaboration. Specifically, Brittany trains and co-maintains updated development for Motivational Interviewing (MI), Brief Action Planning (BAP) Trainer and Certification, Health Literacy (HL), Custom Quality Improvement (QI), Person and Family Centered care (PFV in QI), Strategies for Well-Being (SWB), Improving Interactions (II), Informed Decision Making (IDM), Brief Interventions (BI), Trauma Informed Care (TIC), Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) Coder, Coach & Trainer, Practice and Feedback call facilitator, Standardized Person (SP), and more.

Brittany is a member of the internationally recognized Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), an active team member in the MINT Professional Development Committee (PDC) and a MINTor mentoring new MINTies in the first year or so post-training. Brittany has presented at both virtual and in person MINT Forums, attends other special interest groups, and continues to be a contributing member.

Brittany has a Criminology/Criminal Justice and Psychology background, and recent education interests remain in Organizational Psychology. She has worked with children and teens with Spectrum related abilities including social anxiety, Autism and Asperger syndromes in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) Therapy. Brittany began her career working for Adult Corrections working in both the Federal and Provincial systems. Within Provincial Corrections she was a Probation Officer for 17+ years, during which time she worked with various marginalized and over-represented groups utilizing Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and other evidence-based practices. Brittany developed a love for professional skills development, training, research and facilitation at the onset of her university experience and career. Previously she trained and supported the high-risk offender populations and the helping professionals working within the Criminal Justice System. She feels honoured to have worked with Aboriginal Justice workers and local Bands to co-develop and design Corrections based programming for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. After re-designing and running programs for specialized treatment groups with a concentration in personal harm offences, she supported several Peer Reviews across the province of British Columbia. Brittany continued her education journey in systems design specifically around Literacy levels and Quality Improvement consultation in large organizations and is passionate to explore this journey creating health and wellness for everyone who encounters big systems. Brittany has recently leaned into practitioner support and resilience, considering how many of the skills CCMI offers can support both the people being served (patients, clients, care givers) and those in the helping or supporting roles both professional and personal. Brittany’s overlapping understanding of mandatory settings and various environments linked to Healthcare, Canadian Court Systems & Institutions, and Community Outreach makes her an asset to work with many different populations, peers and helping professionals. Although Brittany acknowledges “the best knowledge is always in the room of the learners”.

Brittany aspires to author a book for helping professionals that link the above experiences together. In the meantime, she is a busy mother to pre-teens and some fuzzy family animals. She is an avid sports enthusiast and remains playing on a college level women’s soccer team. She has coached youth boys’ and girls’ community soccer, sat in as a vice-president to a local youth soccer association, competed and judged in Crossfit competititions, and enjoys doing all things outdoors in British Columbia especially by the water or mountains.

Brittany respectfully acknowledges the land on which she lives, works and plays is the traditional ancestral unceded shared territory of the Sema:th First Nation (colonially known as Sumas) and Halkomelem: Máthxwi First Nation (colonially known as Matsqui). These two First Nations are part of the Stό:lō Nation. The Stό:lō people have lived in the Fraser Valley for 10,000 years. As well as the Fraser Valley Metis. Without these great teachers we are lost, let’s learn to listen and live together harmoniously- land, water, spirit and people.