Education and Training
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology University of Victoria 2012
Bachelor of Science in Nursing University of Alberta 2003
ECHO Trans Care BC: Gender Affirming Primary Care Part 2 and other courses: Education through Trans Care BC (2021- 2026)
How to Work with Shame. National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behaviour Medicine (2025)
How to Treat Chronic Digestive Disorders. National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behaviour Medicine. (2025)
UBC Sexual Health Conference (2025, 2024, and 2017, 2015)
Emotion Focused Family Therapy (Core I). Foundry Training. (2024)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills through Psychwire taught by Marsha Linehan (2021).
Birth Story Medicine (Level 1+2): Pam England (2022).
Pain Education Series: Tania Suzuki Pichler Castilho (2020)
Bringing the Body to Practice: Advanced Practices in Psychotherapy. Attachment, Trauma, and the Soul. (2017). A one year training for healing complex trauma with Lisa Mortimer.
Trauma Treatment Principles Research Modalities: Bessel van der Kolk (2015)
Somatic Transformation: Sharon Stanley PhD (2013–2014)
Transgender Hormone Readiness Assessment Training: Gail Knudson, MD (2014)
Women’s Health: Counselling Strategies in Menopause (2013)
Gay Men’s Health Workshop (2013)
Therapeutic Conversations X–Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy (2012)
OPT Clinical Perspectives on Sexual Education: Regional Education Session (2012)
Supporting a Lost Dream: Perinatal Loss Workshop (2011)
Nurturing Mothers: A Paradigm for Depression, Trauma, and Postpartum Healing: Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD IBCLC (2010)
Birth as a Hero’s Journey. Birthing from Within: Pam England (2007)
I love learning! I am constantly reading and doing smaller workshops. Some of my favourite things to learn about right now are somatic healing and mindfulness.
