All of our staff members including senior management spend most of their time working directly with the students. They are role models – experienced professionals committed to the families, the program, and their own personal and professional development.

With a 1:4 staff to student ratio, our staff have the opportunity to build strong relationships with our students and families as they experience all aspects of the program together. We have a strong front-line with a diversity of expertise – qualified teachers, dance & movement therapists, professional chefs, adventure therapists, wilderness experts, & professional athletes.

Our senior staff are leaders in their fields. Click on a name for a photo & bio.

CEO | Clinical Director  | Executive Director | Director of Family Programs | Program Director | Admissions Director | Milieu Director | Family Therapist  |  Therapist   | Therapist | Consulting Psychiatrist  | Research Associate

Pine River Institute is supported by a volunteer Board of Directors, a Professional Advisory Committee,and Parent & Youth Advisors.

Angie comes from a background working with at-risk adolescents in a variety of settings including wilderness, residential and outpatient programs.  She holds Bachelor degrees in Sociology and Social Work from the University of British Columbia and her Masters of Social Work from the University of Toronto, specializing in Addictions
and Mental Health. 
Inspired by years of extensive canoe tripping with adolescents, Angie moved to Oregon to work for several therapeutic wilderness programs where she developed a passion for outdoor experiential therapy and adolescent mental health and addictions.  Angie has spent the past six years working with at-risk and homeless youth in both BC and Ontario.  She co-founded and facilitated “Canoe to Connect”, a satellite program for homeless youth from Toronto with a therapeutic wilderness component and an urban transition and aftercare component.
After ten months with Pine River’s Outdoor Leadership Experience (OLE) Angie has transitioned into the school as Milieu Supervisor. She is an avid outdoors woman at heart, and is now back in OLE as a Therapist.