Training and Certification

PhD Student (UBC)

Master's of Social Work (Dalhousie University 2011)

Bachelor of Social Work (UBC 2004)

Registered Social Worker in BC and Alberta (BCCSW and ACSW)

Alberta College of Social Workers Clinical Registry

Member of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation and Trauma

Member of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute Professional Association

IFS Informed EMDR (Syzygy Institute- level 2)

Emotion Focused Therapy Externship (28 hours)

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses and Traumatic Memory (80 hours of training)

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 2: Developmental Injury: Emotional Processing, Meaning Making and Attachment Repair (113.5 hours of training)

EMDR and Advanced EMDR (Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation); Attachment Focused EMDR (Dr. Laurel Parnell)

Trauma, Memory and the Restoration of One’s Self (5 day training with Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk)

Treating Complex Trauma (Dr. Christine Courtois)

Internal Family Systems Therapy for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction & More (Dr. Richard Schwarz and Dr. Frank Anderson)

Theraplay (Level 1) and MIM

Certificate in Sandplay (Rocky Mountain Play Therapy Institute)

Green Stream Certificate in Play Therapy (Rocky Mountain Play Therapy Institute)

Clinical Supervision (U of C Social Work Professional Development)

Suicide Intervention training (Lethbridge Family Services)

Violence Threat Risk Assessment Level 1 and 2

Crisis Prevention and Intervention

RYT-200 Yoga Teacher Training (Therapeutic focus, Soma Yoga Institute, Costa Rica)

Aerial Yoga Teacher Training (Essential Yoga, Fernie, BC)

Trauma Sensitive Yoga (Trauma Centre at JRI)

Various workshops with  leading experts like Daniel Siegel, Bruce Perry, Scott Miller and many others, on topics including neurobiology, attachment, mindfulness, self-regulation, complex trauma, resilience, anxiety and depression, and other topics.