Brenton Diaz is a trauma therapist in Ontario who works with people who have trauma history including coming from communities where there has been genocide.

He serves as the coordinator of the Newcomers' Health and Well-being Program at a charitable community health organization north of Toronto. He teaches on trauma at Tyndale University in Toronto and abroad including Lithuania, Ukraine, Kenya and Malawi, and Ethiopia. He also teaches in the social work departments at two Toronto-area universities.

He and his wife Christy volunteer with The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, consulting and teaching in Kenya, Rwanda, Dominican Republic, Malawi, Lithuania, Georgia & Ukraine.

Free, self-directed course online (seven videos and discussion questions called Trauma-Friendly Church http://www.theefc.ca/trauma-friendly

Edited and condensed text from this interview in the May/Jun 2024 issue of Faith Today https://digital.faithtoday.ca/faithtoday/library/item/05062024/4188068/

Brent Diaz personal websitehttps://karibudiaz.wordpress.com/