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About Trevor Botkin

Trevor Botkin is a journey carpenter, superintendent, and mental health advocate with over 30 years of experience working in the skilled trades across Western Canada.

Trevor entered the trades at 19 and spent decades on job sites, building a career while navigating the pressures, culture, and unspoken expectations that come with the work. Like many in the industry, he struggled quietly with mental health challenges and substance use. In 2019, after narrowly avoiding a planned suicide, Trevor entered treatment and began a path of recovery that continues to shape his life and work.

Now nearly seven years into recovery, Trevor is a respected voice in conversations about mental health, addiction, and suicide prevention in the skilled trades. He speaks openly about lived experience—not as a story of having it all figured out, but as proof that recovery is possible and that support matters.

Trevor has worked in industry leadership and advocacy roles, including as Manager of Community Engagement with Umbrella Society and Manager of Industry Relations with the Construction Foundation of BC, and has helped develop worker-driven peer support initiatives grounded in trust, dignity, and lived experience. He is also a co-host of the Off the Clock Toolbox Talk podcast , which shares candid, worker-led stories from across the trades, and Canadian Men’s Health Foundation’s Don’t Change Much podcast, that foster candid conversation about mens health in general.

MusterPoint Canada reflects Trevor’s core belief: that real change in the trades comes from workers supporting workers—and that no one should have to face mental health or recovery challenges alone.