Board of Directors
Nicole Brown-Faulknor
Nicole is the Founder of Wounds 2 Wings Trauma + Psychotherapy Services, a Yoga Instructor, Registered Psychotherapist, Child and Youth Counsellor, Trauma Consultant, Author and Trauma Survivor. She is also a member of both the Colleges of Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario and the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy with over 18 years of professional experience working with marginalized, vulnerable and oppressed communities, individuals, families and children.
FOUNDER AND CEO
Kristina Snjaric
Kristina is a freelance digital marketer and copywriter with a passion for connecting. While completing her studies in marketing, she was involved with non-profit sport organizations in both the event and digital spaces that focused on using sport to promote mental wellness as well as uplift Indigenous youth.
DIRECTOR OF LEADERSHIP AND ADVISORY
Becca Gregory
Becca is a versatile creative with a passion for all things art, mental health, and community. Becca holds a Communications degree from McMaster University and brings a diverse range of experience in photography, graphic design, and digital marketing. She currently works in Social Media Marketing in Toronto, combining her creative skills with strategic marketing to engage diverse audiences.
With seven years of experience working alongside Nicole Brown Faulknor, Becca has gained valuable insight into Nicole’s anti-oppressive, non-traditional approaches to psychotherapy and community care. This experience continues to inspire Becca’s dedication to mental health advocacy and social justice, which she actively integrates into both her professional and personal life.
ADMINISTRATION OFFICER & MARKETING DIRECTOR
Molly Tandon
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTMolly Tandon is a relationship-driven project and partnerships leader who works at the intersection of collaboration, strategy, and community impact. Her work focuses on building meaningful connections across education, corporate, and nonprofit sectors — creating pathways where ideas turn into shared action.
Born in India and now based in Canada, Molly draws on her lived experience as a woman of color and immigrant to bring empathy, inclusion, and cross-cultural understanding to her leadership. With a background spanning executive operations, partnership development, and community engagement, she combines structure and vision to help organizations grow with purpose.
A certified Project Management Professional, Molly brings both care and clarity to every collaboration. At TEAO, she is dedicated to nurturing partnerships that embody trauma-informed values, collective healing, and sustainable community change.
Amanda J. Edwin
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Amanda immigrated to Canada with her family in 2008. She was an Educator in Trinidad and Tobago for over 21 years and ended her tenure as a Head of Department. Over the years, Amanda has worked as a Litigation Paralegal and gained a significant amount of administrative and courtroom experience in Small Claims, Provincial Offences and Landlord and Tenant matters, experience she now brings to Amicus Paralegal Services.
Website: kwnotary.ca
PARALEGAL & NOTARY PUBLIC
Daniella Maylor
Daniella Maylor brings over four years of experience in finance, administration, and operations across multiple sectors. Raised in a marginalized neighborhood, she was inspired by leaders who reflected her identity and modeled equity-driven leadership. Her lived experience, together with studies in feminist, Black and Indigenous, anti-racism, and anti-oppression frameworks, continues to shape her commitment to healing justice and community impact. Daniella also serves as Director of Finance at StartProud and Chair of Governance at Leeds & Grenville Interval House. As Treasurer of TEAO, she is dedicated to ensuring that the organization’s financial and governance practices reflect its mission to support marginalized communities across Ontario.
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE / TREASURER
Victoria Lewis
DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL INNOVATION & ACCESSIBILITYVictoria Lewis is a software developer and accessibility advocate with an Honors Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Her work centers on designing digital tools that meet both the practical and emotional needs of the people who use them. She has developed software for holistic task management that supports students by acknowledging the realities of stress, overwhelm, and the nervous system. Her background also includes web development, Android and Windows software engineering, and the ongoing creation of education and productivity resources for neurodivergent learners.
As a black woman who grew up being talked over and minimized, Victoria witnessed the ways that marginalized voices were often misunderstood or outright dismissed. These early experiences shaped her commitment to justice, accessibility, and community care. They also inform her belief that digital spaces should be designed with compassion, intention, and an understanding of how exclusion impacts the body and mind.
As Director of Digital Innovation and Accessibility at TEAO, Victoria is dedicated to building technology that expands access to mental health support for marginalized communities. She brings both her technical skills and her lived experiences into her work, ensuring that every resource she creates supports dignity, autonomy, and care for those who have too often been left out of traditional systems.
Website: https://www.eduaccessible.com/
The governing Board of The Wounds 2 Wings Trauma and Embodiment Association of Ontario (TEAO) will provide effective and ethical governance leadership on behalf of its stakeholders’ interest to ensure that the organization focuses on its purpose and outcomes for the persons served, resulting in the organization’s long-term success and stability. Click HERE to read more and download the TEAO Board Manual.
TEAO Board Manual
International Resource and Advisory Team
Zainab (Zayn) Dikko
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH COORDINATORZainab (Zayn) Dikko has faced her own mental health struggles and continues to navigate them every day. She understands how lonely it can feel to suffer in silence and knows that healing isn’t a destination but an ongoing process, one that requires support, understanding, and a sense of belonging.
As a social work student at the University of Waterloo and Community Engagement & Outreach Coordinator at TEAO, she is dedicated to creating the kind of spaces she once needed, places where people feel heard, valued, and supported. She believes that mental health care should be accessible, culturally competent, and rooted in community.
Through her work, Zayn hopes to help those who have been silenced by stigma, power imbalances, or systemic barriers reclaim their voice, their story, and their right to support, because no one should have to struggle alone.
Iona Sky
Iona Sky (she/her) is an Indo-Canadian social worker, consultant and educator. She has worked in the social services for over 20 years and is a consultant and leader in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (with a particular focus on transfer to practice/action), leadership and organizational development. Iona is also part-time faculty in the Social Work department at the University of Waterloo. In all her work, both personally and professionally, Iona brings her lived intersectional experiences as a queer immigrant parent with invisible disabilities. This self-reflexive journey as a dually marginalized and privileged woman in the Canadian landscape has provided Iona with different experiences of oppression as well as privilege, which she uses to inform her advocacy and social justice work.
Website: ionasky.ca
VISIONARY, LEADER, CONSULTANT & EDUCATOR
GABRIELLE FRENCH
Gabrielle French (she/her) is deeply rooted in the stories of her community. Growing up in the GTA and now living in Cambridge, she has witnessed firsthand how government safety nets often fall short, leaving individuals without the support or safe spaces they need to heal, grow, and stabilize. Hearing friends, peers, and community members share their struggles to access therapeutic care or supportive coaching has shaped her belief that systems must do better — and that people need each other to move forward.
A recent graduate of the University of Guelph with a BAH in Psychology, Gabrielle was inspired by professors, mentors, and frontline professionals who model what compassionate, informed care can look like. Their influence sparked her commitment to pursue tools for systemic change and contribute her energy toward building more accessible, embodied pathways to healing.
Her passion for trauma-responsive, person-centered support is what drew her to TEAO. Gabrielle believes that communities transform when people are willing to reach out, lift one another, and create environments where healing is a shared responsibility. As TEAO’s Youth Care & Community Liaison, she is dedicated to strengthening accessibility, amplifying youth voice, and helping shape systems where care, safety, and collective healing are not optional — but foundational.
YOUTH CARE & COMMUNTIY LIASONVolunteer Outreach Team
Kelly O’Sullivan
Kelly O'Sullivan (she/they) is a psychotherapist and registered social worker with over two decades of experience in the downtown Toronto East community. Kelly offers help, advocacy, and support to diverse individuals and communities, specializing in somatic, embodied traditional, and evidence-based therapies. Their training includes EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), meditation, yoga, pranayama, and other practices that support the healing of the body, mind, and spirit. With the Trauma Embodiment Association of Ontario (TEAO), Kelly focuses on outreach, promoting healing through community and connection.
TORONTO OUTREACH COORDINATOR 
DANIELLE ALLEN
With a degree in psychology, Danielle is passionate about trauma-informed, holistic mental health care. She has a decade of experience in environmental advocacy, community-centered conservation, and mobilizing action for systemic change. Currently preparing for graduate studies in psychotherapy, she is committed to integrating body-centered healing practices to support recovery. As Volunteer Coordinator, she focuses on strengthening TEAO’s volunteer network to better serve the community and increase access to support.
VOLUNTEER COORDINATORPeer Support Team
Christie Lee
Christie is passionate about supporting mental health and ensuring that everyone has access to spaces where they feel safe, included, and valued. She believes that healing should be accessible to all, regardless of background or experience, and that community plays a vital role in that process. For Christie, TEAO's spaces are important because they give people an inclusive place to come as they are, without barriers or judgment, and feel supported in their healing and growth. She hopes to contribute to an environment where people feel genuinely welcome and supported as they explore their own paths to healing.
She believes that everyone is the expert in their own journey and experiences, and that healing begins when people feel heard and empowered to make choices for themselves. Honoring someone’s voice means recognizing their perspective as valid and important, and creating space for them to express it freely. To her, supporting mental health also means helping others reclaim that sense of agency, so they can move forward with confidence and self-trust.
Zainab (Zayn) Dikko
Zainab (Zayn) Dikko is a certified Peer Supporter and Trauma-Responsive Care practitioner with TEAO Canada. She also serves as TEAO’s Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator, helping lead outreach initiatives, community partnerships, and trauma-informed programming across Ontario.
As a Black immigrant woman with lived experience navigating cultural change and faith transitions, Zayn brings empathy, openness, and a deep understanding of how identity, belonging, and systemic barriers shape healing. Her approach blends professional training in peer support, crisis response, and counselling skills with a grounded, relational practice rooted in compassion and cultural humility. She is currently completing her Bachelor’s in Social Development Studies at the University of Waterloo, where she focuses on mental health and community wellbeing.
Zayn believes trauma-responsive care is essential because many people move through life carrying experiences that were never acknowledged or supported. In our communities, unaddressed trauma often shows up as isolation, anger, or silence. Trauma-responsive care helps create spaces where people feel seen, safe, and empowered to rebuild trust both in themselves and in others.
Emma Mukkadan
Emma Mukkadan (she/her) is an Indian-Canadian woman who has graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in psychology. Her experience in research and client-care focuses on promoting the mental well-being of marginalized groups, especially racial, gender, and sexual minorities. As a result, the value of TEAO that most resonates with her is equity and belonging. As someone who has experienced culturally incompetent care and lack of support from mental health service providers, Emma believes effective, trauma-informed care should include all voices and experiences. Within TEAO, Emma aims to create this safe space for minorities to feel uplifted and validated through her role as a trauma responsive care personnel.
Apurva Sugenthiran
Apurva is passionate about supporting others, which began through her own healing journey and her experience with TEAO. She expresses her love for the organization through their collective care practices in creating warm, inclusive, and safe spaces.
She is dedicated to making support more accessible and building genuine connections within the community. Inspired by TEAO’s commitment to inclusivity, she strives to create environments where all individuals feel empowered to openly share their stories and explore their resilience. They value recognizing and respecting diverse cultural backgrounds, beliefs, and practices to ensure mental health is inclusive of individual needs.
Through her involvement, she hopes to make a meaningful impact by helping others develop self-agency as they progress along their personal journeys of growth and healing.
Varsha Gobin
Varsha Gobin is a dedicated trauma-responsive care personnel and peer support volunteer whose work is rooted in compassion, nervous-system-aware practice, and community care. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Biology and brings both academic insight and heartfelt commitment to supporting others on their healing journeys.
Varsha has long been passionate about mental health, particularly understanding how trauma lives in both the body and mind, as well as how trauma can be passed down through generations as intergenerational trauma. Her approach blends evidence-informed cognitive perspectives with somatic and embodiment-based practices that honour lived experience and nervous system regulation. She is currently training to become a Trauma Centre Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator, deepening her capacity to create relational safety and embodied support.
Driven by a belief that healing happens in connection, Varsha strives to walk alongside individuals—offering presence, attunement, and dignity rather than judgment. Her work centres agency, respect, and the ability for people to feel seen and supported at their own pace and in their own strength. Varsha believes trauma-responsive care is essential because many people carry experiences that shape their nervous systems long before entering support spaces. By meeting individuals where they are and centring safety, dignity, and connection, trauma-responsive care fosters healing that is human, relational, and accessible.