Education & Training

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). I graduated with Honours with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Counselling. As part of ethical practice, and for my own personal and professional development, I have engaged in ongoing clinical supervision throughout my career. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, I am deeply grounded in my own personal healing work.

I am a Certified Somatic Transformation Practitioner, specializing in relational and body-centred practices for healing trauma. I also have extensive training in other somatic modalities, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal work, and Somatic Internal Family Systems work.

I am also a fully Certified Relational Life Therapist. RLT training informs my work with couples and individuals, drawing on both family systems work and trauma healing within the couple relationship.

I have been an ongoing student of Thomas Hubl (a contemporary spiritual healer) for the past 6 years, studying Personal, Collective and Generational Trauma Healing through attuned embodiment, meditation, and regulation processes.

Additionally, I am an IFS-Informed Therapist, having completed several IFS courses with Frank Anderson, Toni-Herbine Blank, Colleen West, Richard Schwartz, Fran Booth, and Susan McConnell.

My earlier education includes in-depth work with Jungian Psychotherapy, Response-Based Interviewing with survivors of interpersonal violence and abuse, and Satir Couple’s Counselling.

The following list includes some of my additional professional training:

  • Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program with the The Embody Lab (2025/26)

  • The Neurobiology of Feeling Safe - Working with Boundaries - Juliane Taylor Shore (2026)

  • Living with the Legacy of Loss: A Somatic Approach for Working with Grief. Janina Fisher (2026)

  • Grieving Fully, Living Fully - Death of a Parent. David Kessler (2025)

  • Intimacy from the Inside Out: Courage and Compassion in Couple Therapy (IFIO) from the IFS Institute (Toni Herbine-Blank), 2025

  • Internal Family Systems Trauma Treatment Program. Frank Anderson (2024)

  • Internal Family Systems. Colleen West (2024)

  • Essentials of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP): Radically Relational Interventions for Working with Complex Trauma (2023). Gleiser & Prenn.

  • Compassionate Inquiry in Action: An Experiential Course for the Healing of Deep Traumatic Wounds (2023). Gabor Mate

  • Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate, Level 1, 2 and 3, 2022 – Fran D. Booth

  • Ancestral Healing Journey, Thomas Hubl, 2022-23

  • Principles of Collective Trauma Healing, 2020, 2021, and 2022 with Thomas Hubl

  • Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), Level 1 and Level 2 Certification – Sue Johnson and Leanne Campbell, 2021

  • Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Attachment-based Interventions to Treat Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression, Sue Johnson, 2021

  • Effective Telehealth Therapy Using EFT Techniques Online – Sue Johnson, 2020

  • A Specialized Understanding of Emergency Worker Trauma, First Responder Health, 2020

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Complex Trauma and PTSD, Richard Schwartz, 2021

  • Internal Family Systems Step by Step: IFS for Deep Healing, Richard Schwarz, 2019

  • A Step-by-Step Guide Through Clinical Applications of the Internal Family Systems Model, Frank Anderson, 2020

  • IFS Immersion: Integrating Internal Family Systems Across Clinical Applications, Frank Anderson, 2020

  • Evolutionary Relationships: Creating Mystical Relationships for Healing and Waking Up – Terry Real and Thomas Hubl, 2020 and 2021

  • Integrative Trauma Treatment: Blending IFS, Sensorimotor, Mindfulness, Psychoeducation and More – Janina Fisher, 2020

  • A Body-Oriented Approach to Trauma: Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy by Dr. Pat Ogden, Ph.D. 2019

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Body-Oriented Therapy Techniques for Trauma and Attachment – Pat Ogden, Ph.D. 2019

  • Complex Trauma Certification Level 1&2 with Janina Fisher, 2019

  • Shame and the Disowned Self: Overcoming Internal Attachment Disorder, Janina Fisher, 2018

  • Certificate Course in Emotionally Focused Therapy with Sue Johnson: Attachment-Based Interventions for Couples in Crisis, 2018

  • The Body Keeps the Score: When Talk Isn’t Enough – Bessel Van der Kolk, 2019

  • Applying Polyvagal and Memory Reconsolidation Theories with Parts Work, Somatic, and Mindful Approaches, 2019

  • Hypnosis for Trauma and PTSD Certificate Course: Effectively Integrating Hypnosis, Neuroscience, and Mind/Body Approaches in Clinical Practice, 2018

  • Occupational Awareness Training for Treating First-Responder Trauma, 2018

  • Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, Step by Step: Body-oriented Approach to Trauma and Stress Disorders, 2018

  • Creating Healthy Attachment: A step-by-step guide, Sue Johnson, 2017

  • Trauma: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, Peter Levine, Ph.D, 2017

  • Response-Based Practice Training/Supervision with Dr. Allan Wade, 2006-2010

  • Advanced Jungian Concepts, John Betts, 2007

  • Intensive Fundamentals Course in Analytical Psychology and Dream Analysis, John Betts, 2006

  • Satir Couple’s Counselling Program, John and Beth Riopka, 2002