My social work career began as a youth and family counsellor, working with residential treatment centers and group homes. After obtaining my master's in clinical social work I became a mental health counsellor specializing with families and adolescents struggling with complex trauma and addictions. Currently, I specialize in providing couple's therapy with a focus on sex and intimacy with diverse gender and sexual identities and non-monogamous relationships. Gio uses the pronouns they/them.
Areas of instruction
- Emerging Issues
- Mental Health
- Research
Areas of scholarship
- Clinical Social Work
- Social Work Professional Practice
- Couples Therapy and Sytemic Approaches
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Sex Therapy
Selected Publications
Dolcecore, G., Akapnitis, I., Jenkins, G., Klemmer, C. (2020). Substance use and transgender nonbinary populations. In Social Work and health care practice with transgender and nonbinary individuals and communities: voices for equity, inclusion, and resilience. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 10.43249780429443176-10
Walsh, C., Mulligan, C., Dolcecore, G. (2016). Social work and sexual diversity: A review Al Krenawi, A., Graham, J.R., Habibov, N. (Eds), Diversity and Social Work in Canada (Chapter 12). Don MIlls, ON: Oxford University Press.
Selected Media
Pride struggles to 'balance' competing interests of minority groups - CBC