About Anne Graham

Anne completed her undergraduate degree from the University of New Brunswick. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, high honours in Psychology. Learn about UNB.

Anne graduated with her Masters in Counselling with a Counselling Psychology specialization in 2006.

After Anne graduated from her Masters Degree, she completed her residency in psychology at Sussex Mental Health Center in New Brunswick.

Work Experience:

Over the past twenty years Anne has worked with children, adolescents, and their families in various capacities.

After completing her degree at the University of New Brunswick, Anne first worked in various elementary and middle schools within the public school system, and also was employed as a full time teacher for a local private school.

Before beginning her Master's program, Anne was employed by Spurwink Services in Portland, Maine, USA. Spurwink Services is a nationally accredited non-profit organization that provides a broad range of mental health and educational services for over 5000 children, adolescents, adults and families per year. Her time with Spurwink allowed her to work with emotionally, socially, and physically challenged children and adolescents as a therapeutic foster parent.

Over the past 6 years Anne has been working within a Mental Health Clinic in the Province of New Brunswick assisting children, adolescents, and their families.

Memberships and Accreditations:

Specialized Training:

Anne has developed skills in Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Play Therapy, Collaborative Problem Solving, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy over the course of her professional career. Read below for details... 

Anne has completed the Advanced Training in Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS). Collaborative Problem solving is a model for understanding and helping kids with social, emotional and behavioral challenges. The model was first described in the book , The Explosive Child, by Dr. Ross Greene, which was originally published in 1998 and is now in its fourth addition (2010).

The CPS approach sets forth two major tenets. First, challenging behavior in kids is best understood as the result of lagging cognitive skills (in the general domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance and problem solving) rather than as the result of passive, permissive, inconsistent, non contingent parenting. And second, the best way to reduce challenging episodes is by collaboratively solving the problems setting them in motion in the first place (rather than by imposing adult will and intensive use of reward and punishment procedures. More information about Collaborative Problem Solving...

Speaking Engagements:

Crandall University November 29, 2012 12:30 PM
 Moncton, New Brunswick

Anne will be speaking to a Psychology class at Crandall University in Moncton, NB. She will be introducing Dr. Ross Greene's Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) as a better way to help challenging kids with challenging behaviors. She will discuss why some children are challenging and how working collaboratively with the child is more successful than simply imposing your adult will on them. Learn more about Collaborative Problem Solving.

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New Brunswick Adoption Foundation presents
"Growing Together, Voices of Adoption Conference" November 3, 2012 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Ramada, Crystal Palace Moncton, NB 

As an adoption parent of two children from Haiti, Anne will be sharing her perspective in her presentation entitled "Facing Grief and Loss: An Adoptive Parent's Story".

The "Growing Together, Voices of Adoption Conference" is being hosted by the Adoption Support Network for  pre-adoptive parents, adoptive parents, foster parents & adoption & child welfare professionals to support the needs of adoptive children and their families.

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If you would like Anne to speak at your conference or event, please contact us. She specializes in speaking about adoption, adjustment, attachment, chronic pain, chronic illness, foster care, self esteem and self harm and separation/divorce.