Allan Wade Ph.D. lives on the unceded territory of the Quw’utsun First Nation, on southern Vancouver Island, B.C. He works as a family therapist, researcher and consultant with a primary interest in promoting socially just and effective responses to violence and other forms of adversity. Allan works with individuals and families, with youth and adults, with people who have committed violence and people who have been harmed by violence. Allan works extensively with Indigenous peoples locally, in the Canadian north, and abroad.

Allan provides training to the network of service providers who become involved in cases of violence: child protection, police, lawyers and judges, counsellors, shelter and refuge staff, youth workers, victim assistance workers, and educators. He teaches locally and internationally and has published many articles on the power of dignity and resistance, working with victims/survivors and offenders, the importance of institutional responses to violence, and the connection between violence and language.