About Maureen
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Maureen Pollard is a registered social worker with a private practice in Cobourg, Ontario. She specializes in supporting people as they integrate the experiences of grief and trauma. Maureen provides compassionate care for individual and groups in therapy, and she is a dynamic speaker, delivering effective training and workshops to professionals, volunteers, and community members.
Writing stories captivated Maureen at a young age, perhaps beginning with the class newspaper in Mrs. Voy's grade four class. For many years, Maureen's writing focused on telling real people's stories in professional reports. In 2010, Maureen found her way back to creative writing, gently prompted by a conversation with her eighth grade teacher, Mr. McLean, and embraced with compassionate encouragement by Firefly Creative Writing.
In 2020, Maureen discovered songwriting and began an adventure in telling stories in a whole new way. Keen to learn more, Maureen picked up the guitar in 2021, deepening her connection with the music she's writing.
These experiences have shifted her personal life and enhanced her role as a professional as she explores the therapeutic power of story and song. Her creative heart has cracked wide open and there's no looking back.
Reader Reviews
Best Interests was the first hard copy book since the pandemic that I couldn’t put down. Loved it. It’s so hard to explain child protection to people but you managed to put it into writing with an interesting character to boot.
A. T.