Meet Jamie Dawdy

Jamie Dawdy is dedicated to supporting meaningful, sustainable change and strengthening well-being 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.

In her ongoing work as a Public Health Nurse over the past eight years, Jamie focuses on improving infant, child, family, and community health outcomes. Her work integrates clinical practice, research, policy, and community engagement to cultivate the conditions that make resilience and relational health possible. Grounded in this public health perspective, she understands deeply how our behaviour, environmental contexts, and social determinants interact to shape long-term health and well-being.

Outside of her role as a Public Health Nurse, Jamie leads a private practice dedicated to clinical work that is deeply meaningful and personal to her. Driven by her own lived experience of recovery, she focuses on helping clients heal their relationship with food, rebuild unshakeable body trust, and develop the internal capacity to finally feel confident and at home in their own skin.

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™, an integrative conceptual framework to help clients understand and support sustainable change.

A Capacity-First Approach

The framework reframes behaviour change as a developmental process. Rather than relying on motivation alone, it provides a clear pathway to sustainable well-being built on six foundational pillars: establishing capacity, understanding your story, reclaiming agency, defining your values and direction, taking aligned action, and shaping supportive environments/relationships.

Jamie's work is informed by both professional expertise and lived experience. This perspective strengthens her commitment to advancing evidence-informed, sustainable approaches to mental health and long-term well-being. 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