Adrienne Carter “Healing the shattered souls.”
Learn about the work of the Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees (VICCIR) that provides mental health services to any refugee and immigrants in Southern Vancouver Island that are survivors of extreme trauma.
Adrienne Carter is one of the founders of the Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees. She was born in Hungary and together with her parents escaped during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Having spent months in various refugee camps, they arrived to Canada in 1957. Adrienne completed her education at McGill University with a Masters in Social Work. She worked for many years in various parts of the Ministry both in Montreal and in Victoria. In 1999 she began working with Medecins Sans Frontier in addition to her job with Child/Youth Mental Health in Victoria. With MSF she completed 15 missions in various parts of the world. Then she joined the Centre for Victims of Torture where she was sent to Kenya to work with a Human Rights organization for one year and Jordan for 2.5 years to work as psychotherapist trainer to local Jordanian counsellors who in turn provided direct mental health work to thousands of Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
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