Dr. Michael “Mike” Dadson, PhD, RCC, CCC
Developer of the Sequential Trauma Narrative | Clinical Supervisor | National Mental Health Advocate
Dr. Michael “Mike” Dadson, PhD, RCC, CCC, is a Canadian clinical supervisor, educator, author, national mental health leader, and public mental health advocate whose work has contributed to trauma-informed practice, therapist development, public education, national program development, and mental health policy discussions across Canada.
He is the former National Executive Director and Clinical Director of the Veterans Transition Network, a past Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), and the developer of the Sequential Trauma Narrative (STN). For more than two decades, Dr. Dadson has trained, supervised, and mentored therapists while contributing to trauma-informed practice, operational stress injury recovery, public education, clinician development, and mental health initiatives across Canada.
His public-facing work has included testimony before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, national trauma-informed program development, public education initiatives, media commentary, professional training, clinical supervision, published writing, and public-interest advocacy related to PTSD, operational stress injuries, veteran transition, first responder mental health, dissociation, men’s mental health, family recovery, and psychological resilience.
Over more than three decades, Dr. Dadson has maintained clinical practice while working with veterans, first responders, helping professionals, individuals, couples, families, and communities affected by trauma, PTSD, dissociation, operational stress injuries, attachment injuries, relationship distress, and complex stress-related conditions.
MichaelDadson.com serves as a professional archive and knowledge hub documenting Dr. Dadson’s clinical frameworks, public-facing mental health activity, professional writing, clinical supervision, trauma-informed program development, and contributions to public understanding of trauma recovery, PTSD, operational stress injuries, dissociation, men’s mental health, family recovery, and trauma-informed care.
Services
Dr. Dadson served on the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) Board of Directors from 2016-2018 and has been active member of the Society and has delivered workshops, symposiums, and papers at the Society’s annual conference. He has published several articles on the treatment and effects of trauma in academic journals and professional magazines. He has published 9 articles and presented over 40 papers, workshops, and posters at professional and community events. Dr. Dadson served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and an advisor to the Centre for Group Counselling and Trauma from 2014 -2018.
“Contributing to the personal transformation of others gives me great meaning. I find a personal sense of, significance and energy as I see others face painful circumstances, become more of themselves, see their family change and accomplish their own unique goals.”
The Sequential Trauma Narrative
The Sequential Trauma Narrative emerged in part from Dr. Dadson’s long-term clinical practice, clinical supervision, public policy participation, public advocacy, media activity, and national program-development work with trauma-affected individuals, families, veterans, first responders, couples, clinicians, and communities.
As a clinical and public education framework, the Sequential Trauma Narrative explores how traumatic experiences are encoded, stored, remembered, narrated, and gradually transformed. Rather than treating trauma only as a cluster of symptoms, the framework helps explain how trauma can fragment memory, identity, attachment, nervous-system regulation, relationship patterns, and meaning.
The framework provides a relationally grounded way to understand recovery as the rebuilding of coherence. It helps describe how individuals and families move from fragmented survival narratives toward a more integrated understanding of self, relationship, loss, survival, and future possibility.
The Sequential Trauma Narrative reflects Dr. Dadson’s broader public mental health activity across PTSD, operational stress injuries, veteran transition, first responder trauma, dissociation, group counselling, therapist development, couples counselling, men’s mental health, and family recovery.
“I believe that being compassionately present with others, using proven fine-tuned skills in a non-judgmental atmosphere of acceptance creates the space and place where transformation begins. Unconditional acceptance mixed with compassion and empathy is the garden where suffering fertilizes human potential and growth is realized.”
I Have Experience With…
Psychotherapy
Dr. Dadson is trained in and has extensive experience with:
- Certified QPRT Suicide Risk Assessment and Management
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Level One
- Certified Observed & Experiential Integration (OEI) Therapist and Trainer
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level One
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level Two
- Enactment Therapy Level One and Two
Neurotherapy
Dr. Dadson is currently the owner/director of Gentle Currents Counselling and Neuro Feedback a division of Dadson Consulting Services Inc. and has served the Brookswood area of Langley for over 25 years.
Depression and Anxiety
Dr. Dadson continues to help a full range of diverse individuals, couples, and families overcome depression, anxiety, PTSD, dissociative disorders, adjustment issues and developmental attachment injuries.
Trauma Therapy
Why Dr. Michael Dadson Is Notable
Dr. Dadson’s professional significance comes from the intersection of clinical expertise, national mental health leadership, clinical supervision, public policy participation, professional education, public-facing mental health activity, and public-interest advocacy.
- Sequential Trauma Narrative: Developer of a trauma framework connecting memory, attachment, nervous-system regulation, narrative coherence, relational repair, and meaning-making.
- National clinical leadership: Former National Executive Director and Clinical Director of the Veterans Transition Network, with work connected to trauma-informed programming, clinician training, public education, public-facing mental health initiatives, and national program development.
- Federal parliamentary testimony: Appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security during its study of operational stress injuries and PTSD among public safety officers and first responders.
- Clinical supervision as leadership: More than two decades training, supervising, and mentoring therapists in trauma-informed practice, PTSD treatment, dissociation, operational stress injuries, group counselling, and relational recovery.
- Academic and professional involvement: Professional activity connected to the University of British Columbia, the Centre for Group Counselling and Trauma, and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
- Media and public education: Public-facing mental health activity involving media interviews, professional commentary, public advocacy, international awareness initiatives, published writing, and educational contributions related to trauma recovery, PTSD, operational stress injuries, men’s mental health, neurofeedback, dissociation, and psychological resilience.
Media, Public Interest & Mental Health Advocacy
Dr. Dadson’s public-facing work includes parliamentary testimony, national mental health initiatives, media commentary, international public-awareness activity, trauma-informed program development, professional writing, clinical supervision, public education, and public-interest advocacy.
His public record includes House of Commons testimony on PTSD and operational stress injuries, international public mental health activity connected to Contact! Unload at Canada House in London, national leadership with the Veterans Transition Network, public commentary on veteran transition and trauma recovery, and public education related to PTSD, dissociation, operational stress injuries, families, first responders, men’s mental health, neurofeedback, and trauma-informed care.
Dr. Dadson’s broader public-facing work extends beyond clinical practice and includes parliamentary testimony, media interviews, professional commentary, trauma-informed program development, therapist education, veteran mental health initiatives, and public-interest advocacy related to PTSD, operational stress injuries, trauma recovery, and psychological resilience.