Master of Social Work - Mcgill University (2022)

Bachelor of Social Work - Dalhousie University (2019)

Nova Scotia Health Authority - prideHealth Navigator (2025-present)

Nova Scotia Health Authority - Clinical Therapist (2023-2025)

Lambda Health - Social Worker (2022-2023)

George Chuvalo Neighborhood Centre - 2SLGBTQIA+ Employment Program Coordinator (2020-2022)

York University - Re/DeTrans Canada Study Research Assistant (2020-2022)

Project 10 - Anxiety Support Group Facilitator (2020-2021)

The Youth Project - Community Educator and Support Services Manager (2016-2019)

ACORN - Anti-Poverty Community Organizer (2013-2016)

IFS Level One (2025)

IFS Advanced Weekend (2024)

Becoming a DBT SKills Trainer (2024)

Good Psychiatric Management of Borderline Personality Disorder (2023)

Introduction to DBT (2023)

Stepping Stone: Comprehensive IFS Course (2022-2023)

WPATH Advanced Mental Health Course (2021)

WPATH Foundations Course (2021)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Practitioner Course (2020)

Brief Focused Counselling Skills (2019)

MacKinnon, K. R., Kia, H., Salway, T., Ashley, F., Lacombe-Duncan, A., Abramovich, A., ... & Ross, L. E. (2022). Health care experiences of patients discontinuing or reversing prior gender-affirming treatments. JAMA Network Open, 5(7), e2224717.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2794543

 MacKinnon, K. R., Gould, W. A., Enxuga, G., Kia, H., Abramovich, A., Lam, J. S., & Ross, L. E. (2023). Exploring the gender care experiences and perspectives of individuals who discontinued their transition or detransitioned in Canada. PLoS One, 18(11), e0293868.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293868

MacKinnon, K. R., Kia, H., Gould, W. A., Ross, L. E., Abramovich, A., Enxuga, G., & Lam, J. S. (2023). A typology of pathways to detransition: Considerations for care practice with transgender and gender diverse people who stop or reverse their gender transition. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-28984-001?doi=1

Gould, W. A., MacKinnon, K. R., Lam, J. S. H., Enxuga, G., Abramovich, A., & Ross, L. E. (2024). Detransition narratives trouble the simple attribution of madness in transantagonistic contexts: A qualitative analysis of 16 Canadians’ experiences. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 48(2), 247-270.

https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/1/3-4/3/

MacKinnon, K. R., Gould, W. A., Ashley, F., Enxuga, G., Kia, H., & Ross, L. E. (2022). (De) transphobia: examining the socio-politically driven gender minority stressors experienced by people who detransitioned. Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, 1(3-4), 235-259.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11013-023-09838-0

Gahagan, J., Redden, M., Lawrence, L., Luber, K., Enxuga, G., Kia, H., Humble, A. M., Manning, E., Harmon, S., Flowers, P. & Ibanez-Carrsco, F. (under review). Housing as a key determinant of health and a human right for older LGBTQ2S Canadians: A Scoping Review. The Gerontologist.