Education & Experience

Catharine has a Masters of Arts in Applied Behaviour Science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle, City University and has been a Therapist, Child, Youth and Family practitioner and educator for over 35 years. She has been trained in Family Systems Counselling, Post Modern Approaches such as Feminist, Narrative and Solution-Focused Counselling, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, Expressive Therapies (Play, Art) and is a Certified Therapist in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). She has maintained a private counselling practice in Nanaimo, BC since 1994. She works with individuals, couples, children, youth and families who are experiencing anxiety; depression; trauma and loss; relationship difficulties; separation, divorce; blending new families; parenting; youth issues; LGBTQ; transgender; family violence; and issues of physical, emotional and sexual abuse.