Education & Experience

MA in Counselling Psychology, McGill University - 2013; EMDR Basic Training - Level 1, EMDR Institute, Alicia Outcalt; EMDR for Children & Youth - Advanced EMDR Workshop, Ana Gomez; EMDR Therapy with Children - Carolyn Settle Training Center, Carolyn Settle; Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Developmental Deficits & Adults Abused as Children - EMDRIA, Laurel Parnell; Tattered Teddies - Suicide Assist for Children, Centre for Suicide Prevention; Straight Talk - Suicide Assist for Youth, Centre for Suicide Prevention; Responding to Trauma Intensive - Calgary Women's Health Collective & the Narrative Therapy Centre; 3-5-7 Model: Preparing Children for Permanency - Calgary & Area Training Development; Introduction to Neurosequential Model Core Concepts - Child Trauma Academy; Introduction to the Implementation & Practice of the Neurosequential Model - Child Trauma Academy; Therapeutic Skills for Deconstructing Shame & Guilt in Forensic Mental Health - Southern AB Forensic Psychiatry Services Conference; Therapeutic Storytelling from the Inside Out - Alberta Play Therapy Association; Expressive Arts Therapy for the Treatment of Trauma in Children & Adolescents: A Four Phase Model - The Alberta Play Therapy Association; Sandtray Revisited - The Alberta Play Therapy Association; Resilience, Recovery, & Relationship Towards Flourishing Children & Youth - A Neufeld Institute Conference; & Play Therapy with Traumatized Children - Rocky Mountain Play Therapy Institute; Adult Attachment: Trauma-Informed Assessment & Treatment Interventions Across Diagnosis - Dr. Christina Reese; Calming the Inner Critic - Working with Punitive Introjects, Ego States, & Dissociative Parts - Kathy Steele; Working with Parts in Dissociative Disorders: A Practical Guide for Trauma Therapists - Dolores Mosquera; Traumatic Dissociation, Trace, & Culture - Ego State Therapy with The First People - Sandra Paulsen