Colleen Cannon

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT COLLEEN CANNON

I love the discipline of psychology and how it can improve people\'s lives. I have had the privilege of working with people facing challenging health-related events including: chronic pain, living with HIV, high risk pregnancies, heart transplantation, heart disease, diabetes, and eating disorders. However access to doctoral-level psychology expertise is grossly underfunded and remains inaccessible to most. Trying to address this inequity has driven most of my career decisions: it is fundamental to my professional and personal values.* Exploring effective alternate methods of education and service delivery has been the cornerstone of the roles I\'ve chosen for over 20 years in both the public and private sector, locally, nationally, and internationally.* One career highlight of this determination was seeing the program I co-own offered in Loblaws stores across Canada. Learning about the psychology of eating from the cognitive-behavioural model, in the community, from a dietitian in a grocery store! We made that happen!* I have extensive experience contributing theory-driven, credible psychology tools in: Public workshopsInterdisciplinary education sessionsRetreats, Conference presentationsSpeaking engagementsContent creation for websites, patient portals, and app content.* I\'ve been a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders since 1998. I trained at the Ottawa Hospital Eating Disorders program, which at the time was modelled on the renowned University of Toronto Program. In addition I have specialized in assessing and treating depression, anxiety, and trauma in adults aged 19- 80+* In the last 15+ years much of my work has been alongside the co-founder of Craving Change Inc, Wendy Shah, RD. Over 100 people have taken the Craving Change® program across Canada, either in 1:1 clinical counselling sessions or group workshops, online or in person. We have trained over regulated health care professionals in-person and with an online training video (one of the first of it\'s kind in 2013.) Craving Change Inc is a B2B business model: building training, resources and capacity amongst companies and clinicians in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand (and more!) The last international webinar we presented (Jan 2023) had over 900 dietitians registered, with over 500 live attendees and rave reviews.Please reach out at i•••@cravingchange.ca to discuss the value my work can bring to your practice, your team, or your brand.