Yorkville University's Graham Bettes recently appeared in a Niagara This Week feature profiling his establishment of a jiu-jitsu program for local veterans and first responders dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Bettes, who's just a few weeks shy of graduating from Yorkville's Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology program, told his community newspaper that he's seen "positive changes" in those with PTSD who've taken up the martial art.
"PTSD is essentially the body thinking it's going to be in a fight, so I give it a fight every day that seems to work," said Bettes, a Canadian Armed Forces veteran and 29-year member of the Peel Regional Police who was formally diagnosed with PTSD himself in 2012.
