Neumann-Fuhr | School of Nursing

Denise Neumann-Fuhr MA, RN

Position(s)

Student Mental Health Coach

Contact Information

613-533-6000 ext 75893

Teaching

As a former Nurse Educator in Yellowknife (2008-2010), and an Adjunct Faculty member at Queen’s School of Nursing (2011-2021), I have a clear understanding of the challenges faced by students in nursing education programs. While at Queen’s my work focused primarily on community-based nursing practice including mental health care. I was also an active member of OIPEP – a department once dedicated to interprofessional education and practice, and I served on various SON committees. In September 2019, I was awarded the Margaret Leith Bruce Faculty Award for Compassionate Care.

Education

This background, as well as my own diverse nursing practice and additional training in complementary modalities, all serve to help me be present to the needs of students and clients.

Trainings and educational experiences that inform my work include (but are not limited to) completion of a master’s degree in the field of Transpersonal Psychology, certification as a Transformational Coach, training as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, and education in Compassion Cultivation. Other topics and modalities that inform my work include Jungian Psychology, and Shadow work specifically; Hakomi (a somatic and mindfulness-based system of healing); IFS for Coaches; the sacred work of grief as detailed by Francis Weller; Wisdom School contemplations; and the pioneering work of researchers in the field of altered states of consciousness. Finally, recent interests have led to personal explorations and trainings on historical feminine wounding and the role the Divine Feminine plays (historically and as an element of Jungian psychology) in our collective healing. Understanding this as a fundamental unconscious influence of these times, is proving pivotal.

Student Wellness Coaching

My work with students focuses primarily on helping them to learn new skills for navigating stress. This often requires some reframing as well as psychoeducation and practices that focus on downregulating the nervous system. These include mindfulness, meditation, embodiment skills, self-compassion, and breathwork. With time and practice students are better able to create enough space in their system, for new understandings and insights to emerge.

I conduct a private coaching practice that focuses on the transformational healing practices and philosophies outlined.

For more information on this service see the Student Wellness Coaching Information Sheet .

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