Arliss Kurtz MSW, RSW, RYT 500 is a registered social worker in clinical practice from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Ms. Kurtz has 35+ years of experience working within child welfare, community mental health/psychiatry, and forensic areas of practice within varied work settings, and is currently in private practice. She has presented on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to, compassion fatigue/burnout, self-care, therapy with youth who have engaged in sexual harm, enhancing mindfulness and healthy responses in youth who have engaged in sexual harm, trauma-informed practice and caregiving, and mental health and wellness information.

Ms. Kurtz regularly volunteers her time to the Manitoba College of Social Workers. She is currently on the Inquiry Committee, a judiciary process related to the Complaints Committee. She was a member of the former international ATSA Child and Adolescent Committee, and formerly the Chair of the In-Reach Subcommittee where she created, co-developed, and co-facilitated a monthly, International learning and on-line peer consultation forum. She was previously a member of the Child and Adolescent Best Practice Subcommittee and a member of the 2022 ATSA Conference Committee that was held in Los Angeles. Ms. Kurtz co-presented concurrent workshops at the 2022 (Los Angeles, California) and 2023 (Denver, Colorado) ATSA conferences, and presented a pre-conference workshop at the 2024 ATSA conference in San Antonio, Texas.

As part of her career development and self-care practice, Ms. Kurtz completed a two-year hybrid yoga teacher training (virtual and in-person) that culminated with immersion and certification experiences in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica (2023) and Hendersonville, Tennessee (2024). She melds aspects of Raja Yoga, also known as the “Eight-Limbed Royal Path of Yoga”, within her clinical practice, that has included Corporate Wellness Programs for helping professionals.