Meet Jamie Dawdy

Jamie Dawdy is dedicated to supporting meaningful, sustainable change and strengthening wellbeing across individuals, organizations, and communities. She brings 15 years of clinical and systems-level experience as a Registered Nurse, spanning public health , nursing education, research, and leadership.

The Foundation of Her Work

Her practice is grounded in more than a decade of supporting individuals through difficult times, important milestones, and major life transitions.

• 10 Years: Working closely with parents from preconception through pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond, with a special focus on family health.

• 8 Years: As a Public Health Nurse, her work integrates clinical practice, research, policy, health promotion and community engagement to address the conditions that enable long-term resilience and sustained behaviour change. Grounded in a public health perspective, she understands how behaviour, environmental contexts, and social determinants interact to shape long-term health outcomes.

Clinical Experience

Jamie is a Certified Cognitive Behaviour Therapist through the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, with additional training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT-E) for eating disorders.

Framework Development

Jamie is a co-author of the Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience Framework, contributing to provincial, evidence-informed strategies that support coordinated, cross-sector approaches to building resilience.

She is also the creator of the Resilience-Inspired Action Framework™, a capacity-first, developmental model grounded in neuroscience, cognitive and behavioural therapies, and resilience science.

A Capacity-First Approach

The framework reframes behaviour change as a process built on capacity, meaning-making, agency, direction, aligned action and supportive environments and relationships— rather than motivation alone — providing a clear pathway to sustainable wellbeing.

Jamie's work is informed by both professional expertise and lived experience of recovery. She brings depth, clarity, and a grounded, human perspective to how meaningful change unfolds over time.

Her signature belief: lasting change happens when people and systems have the capacity to support it.

Psychotherapist | Speaker | Consultant