Laura Lynne Armstrong Editor & Author

Wendy E. Peterson RN, PhD. is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. Her program of research aims to improve the quality and experience of maternal-newborn health services for marginalized women by addressing disparities in access to health services, facilitating woman-centered humanistic birth, and critically examining the role of registered nurses in interprofessional maternal-newborn health care teams.

Laura Lynne Armstrong, Ph.D., C.Psych. is an Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychologist, and researcher at Saint Paul University. She also holds a Diplomate Clinician certification in Logotherapy from the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. She is the founder of R.E.A.L. therapy (Rational-Emotive Attachment Logotherapy) and a resilience-based mental health promotion program for school children, called D.R.E.A.M. (Developing Resilience through Emotions, Attitudes, and Meaning). In addition to public presentations to enhance community mental health, Dr. Armstrong works clinically with children, youth, and adults.

Michelle A. Foulkes NP-PHC, PhD.  Michelle is a primary health care nurse practitioner and has worked in a variety of nursing contexts over the last 29 years. Her research and clinical interests reside in women's mental health and addictions across the lifespan, social justice, health policy and integration of the nurse practitioner role in Canadian health care. She completed her PhD in nursing in 2015 with her thesis work focused on prenatal attachment in women with addictions.