The Organization
The Chrysalis Network is a 100% volunteer run, federal not-for-profit corporation. Our primary financial sponsor is the Spiral Phoenix Trauma Institute based in Edmonton, Alberta. Our work is also supported by fundraising efforts from partners involved in Freedom Relay Canada. Chrysalis runs Canada's only national human trafficking hotline, which provides trauma counselling, referrals, and safety planning to workers in the commercial sex industry. Chrysalis currently sponsors Canada's National Roundtable on Human Trafficking, an interdisciplinary forum of NGO, government, law enforcement, justice, and mental health partners. We also hosts Canada's only national human trafficking investigators forum, an initiative designed to share best practices among law enforcement representatives from coast to coast.
Founder/Executive Clinical Director
Dr. Jacqui Linder is a registered psychologist and certified Clinical Traumatologist who completed her doctoral dissertation on the psychospiritual impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). She founded the Chrysalis Network in 2010 and Canada's National Roundtable on Human Trafficking the following year. In 2011, she co-founded Freedom Relay Canada, an annual education and fundraising initiative for survivors of human trafficking and exploitation. In 2013, Jacqui developed and launched Canada's first national human trafficking investigators forum, an initiative designed to connect law enforcement personnel nationally and internationally. Later that year, she established the SAFENET project, creating access to a network of safe houses for survivors of human trafficking across Canada. In 2014, Jacqui was named Clinical Director of Canada's first residential treatment facility specializing in the treatment of sexually abused children. She also became a founding co-chair of EUROTAS' international trauma and disaster relief task force.
Jacqui has extensive training in both classic and complementary healing techniques including cognitive-behavioural therapy, exposure therapy and EMDR, as well as expressive arts therapy, psychodrama, and ritual healing. She is an experienced facilitator and has conducted workshops across Canada on the neurobiology of PTSD, trauma recovery, stress management, burnout, grief & loss, psychological first aid, and therapeutic breathwork.
Jacqui is an internationally recognized expert on the psychological profiling of survivors of human trafficking, lecturing for the Canadian Police College, Interpol, and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. She has also lectured in the USA, France, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Hungary, the UK, Guyana and the Czech Republic.
She has worked with a wide range of trauma populations including First Nations and Inuit communities, male offenders, war rape survivors, survivors of human trafficking, former gang members, military and law enforcement members, judges, lawyers, government employees, medical personnel, and survivors of childhood sexual abuse/adult sexual assault.
Jacqui is the founder and CEO of the Spiral Phoenix Trauma Institute in Edmonton, AB, which treats military personnel, first responders and survivors of complex trauma. She is also a professor of psychology and Director of Canadian Counselling Programs for City University in Alberta and British Columbia..
Jacqui has consulted for a number of NGO's and law enforcement agencies. Her professional affiliations include the College of Alberta Psychologists, the Psychological Association of Alberta, the College of Psychologists of Ontario, the American Psychological Association, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation.
Board of Directors
The Chrysalis Board consists of community and law-enforcement members working to support survivors of human trafficking and exploitation.
Volunteers
The Chrysalis Network’s counselling line is staffed by 30 volunteers, primarily with mental health backgrounds, Our counsellors receive specific training in trauma psychology and mental health issues related to human trafficking. We are currently seeking volunteers from across Canada with a graduate degree and experience in psychology or social servcies. A second language would be an asset.
The Chrysalis Network is a 100% volunteer run, federal not-for-profit corporation. Our primary financial sponsor is the Spiral Phoenix Trauma Institute based in Edmonton, Alberta. Our work is also supported by fundraising efforts from partners involved in Freedom Relay Canada. Chrysalis runs Canada's only national human trafficking hotline, which provides trauma counselling, referrals, and safety planning to workers in the commercial sex industry. Chrysalis currently sponsors Canada's National Roundtable on Human Trafficking, an interdisciplinary forum of NGO, government, law enforcement, justice, and mental health partners. We also hosts Canada's only national human trafficking investigators forum, an initiative designed to share best practices among law enforcement representatives from coast to coast.
Founder/Executive Clinical Director
Dr. Jacqui Linder is a registered psychologist and certified Clinical Traumatologist who completed her doctoral dissertation on the psychospiritual impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). She founded the Chrysalis Network in 2010 and Canada's National Roundtable on Human Trafficking the following year. In 2011, she co-founded Freedom Relay Canada, an annual education and fundraising initiative for survivors of human trafficking and exploitation. In 2013, Jacqui developed and launched Canada's first national human trafficking investigators forum, an initiative designed to connect law enforcement personnel nationally and internationally. Later that year, she established the SAFENET project, creating access to a network of safe houses for survivors of human trafficking across Canada. In 2014, Jacqui was named Clinical Director of Canada's first residential treatment facility specializing in the treatment of sexually abused children. She also became a founding co-chair of EUROTAS' international trauma and disaster relief task force.
Jacqui has extensive training in both classic and complementary healing techniques including cognitive-behavioural therapy, exposure therapy and EMDR, as well as expressive arts therapy, psychodrama, and ritual healing. She is an experienced facilitator and has conducted workshops across Canada on the neurobiology of PTSD, trauma recovery, stress management, burnout, grief & loss, psychological first aid, and therapeutic breathwork.
Jacqui is an internationally recognized expert on the psychological profiling of survivors of human trafficking, lecturing for the Canadian Police College, Interpol, and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. She has also lectured in the USA, France, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Hungary, the UK, Guyana and the Czech Republic.
She has worked with a wide range of trauma populations including First Nations and Inuit communities, male offenders, war rape survivors, survivors of human trafficking, former gang members, military and law enforcement members, judges, lawyers, government employees, medical personnel, and survivors of childhood sexual abuse/adult sexual assault.
Jacqui is the founder and CEO of the Spiral Phoenix Trauma Institute in Edmonton, AB, which treats military personnel, first responders and survivors of complex trauma. She is also a professor of psychology and Director of Canadian Counselling Programs for City University in Alberta and British Columbia..
Jacqui has consulted for a number of NGO's and law enforcement agencies. Her professional affiliations include the College of Alberta Psychologists, the Psychological Association of Alberta, the College of Psychologists of Ontario, the American Psychological Association, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation.
Board of Directors
The Chrysalis Board consists of community and law-enforcement members working to support survivors of human trafficking and exploitation.
Volunteers
The Chrysalis Network’s counselling line is staffed by 30 volunteers, primarily with mental health backgrounds, Our counsellors receive specific training in trauma psychology and mental health issues related to human trafficking. We are currently seeking volunteers from across Canada with a graduate degree and experience in psychology or social servcies. A second language would be an asset.
