Stacey Hare Hodgins, BA, HBSW, MA, RSW

Hello! I’m Stacey, a registered social worker, facilitator and feminist advocate with over two decades of experience in community-based organizations in Thunder Bay, on the territory of Fort William First Nation. I work within a trauma and violence-informed, anti-oppressive and anti-racist framework while also supporting strategic efforts to dismantle barriers that silence, exploit, and marginalize women, 2SLGBTQIA+, Black, Indigenous and racialized communities.

Stacey Hare Hodgins (she/her)

Stacey Hare Hodgins (she/her)

Some of my most meaningful work has been creating arts programs for youth coping with anxiety; providing peer support to families experiencing pregnancy loss; collaborating on Honouring Our Stories: a two-year art-based community project that centres the resilience and dignity of women surviving sexual violence; and providing artistic direction for the Art of Resistance: a gathering by and for survivors of sexual violence.

Outside the therapy room, I am an avid lover of the outdoors, whether it's exploring new places while camping and hiking, or finding solace near the water. I believe in the holistic well-being of mind, body, and spirit—a balance I also seek through journalling, artmaking, weightlifting, learning to play guitar, and the simple pleasures found in eating good food with family and friends.

Learn more about my practice here.

“I believe storytelling is one of the most useful tools we have for achieving meaning: it serves to keep our communities together by asking and saying who we are, and it’s one of the best tools an individual has to find out who I am, what life may ask of me and how I can respond.”
— Ursula Le Guin

Experience

  • Arts-Integrated + Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

  • Counselling + Case Management + Advocacy in Mental Health, Addictions, Gender-Based Violence

  • Group Facilitation in Arts, Education + Social Services

  • Non-Profit Leadership + Cross-Sectoral Collaboration

  • Trauma and violence-informed + Strengths-based + Healing-centred Care

Education + Affiliations

  • Master of Arts in Social Justice Studies, Specialization in Gender and Women’s Studies (2022)

  • Write Your Self Guide Certification (2019)

  • Honours Bachelor of Social Work (2005)

  • Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Minor in Women’s Studies (2002)

  • Registered Social Worker in good standing with the OCSWSSW

  • Member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW) and Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) and the International Association for Social Work with Groups (IASWG)

  • Member of Mindful Makers Collective, ArtBridges, Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC)

  • Former member of the volunteer Board of Directors of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Northwestern Ontario

  • Peer Support Volunteer with the Pregnancy and Infant Loss (PAIL) Network

  • Ongoing professional development focused on gender-based violence, reproductive justice, grief, decolonization, narrative practices, trauma-informed practice, and expressive arts