Anne Morrison MSW, RSW, RMFT is a community developer, trainer, consultant and therapist in private practice whose career spans over 30 years and includes community mobilization, change management, wellness and organizational reform expertise within the fields of family counselling, mental health, leisure services, health, education in various community settings. Throughout all of her career, she has focused on various disenfranchised populations, including youth, seniors, and people with special needs. Recently, organizations have recognized the need to understand their internal staff communities before they implement staff reorganization or other organizational reforms. Anne's expertise at enabling people to be heard, understood, and enabled to co-design important changes for themselves has been invaluable.

Anne holds a Masters in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Washington and she is a Registered Social Worker with the BC Board of Registration for Social Workers. She is certified as a Masters Trainer in Volunteerism and Leadership and is a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Anne is also a clinical member and trainer with the Satir Institute of the Pacific. In her employment, Anne has held a number of managerial positions and has worked for a variety of not for profit organizations, municipalities, and institutions. She regularly conducts organizational wellness and advocacy training throughout the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley and abroad, with clients in Singapore and New Zealand.

Anne also regularly trains therapists in the Satir Model of Transformational Change and offers workshops to the general public in the areas of grief, loss, sexual abuse healing, wellness and change management. She is also a Sessional Instructor for the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology Bachelor of Social Work programme, where she teaches the Family Practice 477 Course, in partnership with the Satir Institute of the Pacific.

Anne has published several articles on community development, advocacy and individual and community wellness. Her series Advocacy the Process was published in 1988 and Anne was sponsored across Canada to teach this advocacy model. Her latest article, published in the Journal of Contemporary Family Therapy (March 2002) captures her work with adult females who have experienced sexual abuse. In 1996, Anne was recognized as the YWCA Woman of Distincition within the category of fitness, wellness, recreation and active living. She has also received the BCRPA Award of Merit, the Canada 125 Commemorative Medal, the BC Health Promotion and Public Health Association Health Changemaker Award, and the Langley 2002 Woman of the Year Award.