LEARNING EDGE

2020

• BC Mindfulness Summit - BCALM
• Victoria Reconciliation Dialogues - Carey Newman, Sharmarke Dubow, Dr. Cindy Blackstock

2019

•  ​Intergenerational Trauma: Supporting Resilience with Indigenous Clients - Dr Martin Brokenleg
• Feldenkrais: Tackling Tight Jaw - Sophia Buchholz
• Mindfulness & Menopause - Dr Virginia Gooderham
• Inclusive Leadership - Amber Field & Juli Rees, Gabriola Island
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy - Warren Helfrich & Elise Durante, Campbell River
• ​Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training - NEED2: Suicide Prevention​​
• Harm Reduction - Aids Vancouver Island
• Caring for Trans and Gender-Diverse Youth, Children & Their Families - Trans Care BC
• The Psychology of Othering - Handel Kashope Wright, BC Refugee Hub
• Substance Use - Aids Vancouver Island

2018

• ​Compassionate Inquiry-Gabor Mate
• ​Understanding the Transference and Countertransference Dyad:Implications for Praxis and Play Therapy-Pohsuan Zaide, Vancouver 
• Supporting Clients Undergoing Separation and Divorce-Counsellor Cafe
• Emotion Focused Family Therapy-Gail Wilson
• Couples Therapy-Counsellor Café 

​2017

• Primary Care - Trans Care BC
• Wreck Beach Butoh Dance Workshop - Kokoro Dance, Vancouver
• Movement as Life/Art Process - Anna Halprin & Rosario Sammartino, Tamalpa Institute
• Adult Male Survivors - Judith Prat & Susan Farr, Men's Trauma Centre
• Ethics 360: Unlocking Ethical Dilemmas - John Gawthrop
• Hoarding - HEAT (Hoarding Education and Action Team)
• Anxiety and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Youth - Vancouver Island Crisis Society
• ​Palliative Care in the Indian Context - Dr. Gayatri Palat, Victoria Hospice
• Kid Grieves2 Q & A - Andrea Warnick
• Anti-Racism and Anti-Hate Initiatives: Supporting the Integration of Refugees into Our Communities - AMSSA​

​​2016

• ​​​Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training - NEED2: Suicide Prevention​
• Supporting Children Grieving Their Own Death or the Death of Someone Close to Them - Andrea Warnick & Camara Van Breeman
• ​​Indigenous People and Reconciliation - Monique Gray Smith
• ​Women and Leadership: Radical Conversations on Gender, Justice, Art and Reconciliation - Various Presenters
• Ukulele for Beginners - Jamyang Lodto
• Healing Shame - Sheila Rubin and Bret Lyon
• Medical Assistance in Dying - Victoria Hospice
• What Happened?  Play Therapy for Traumatic Family Loss - Mary Anne Pare, Nanaimo
• Conflict Resolution in the Workplace - Tracey Anderson, Shepell
• Moving Trans History Forward - Rupert Raj, Jason Cromwell, Jamie Lee Hamilton & Yvonne Cook-Riley
• Countering Historical Erasure of Transgender Narratives from Mainstream LGBT History - Performance Art by Andrea Jenkins and Erica Fields
• Refugee Storytelling Event- Fashodo Cooperative Association under auspice of African Heritage Association of Vancouver Island
• ​African Drumming - Jordan Hanson​​​

​2015

• Bringing the Body into Practice - Lisa Mortimore
• ​Trans Inclusion Workshop - Alyx MacAdams Victoria Sexual Assault Centre
• ​Support Refugee Mental Health - Adrienne Carter & Linda McLagan, Victoria Immigrant Refugee Centre
• ​Escaping Conflict: the Syrian Refugee Crisis Explained - Dan Hiebert
• Healing Attachment Wounds - Dale Trimble
• ​Wreck Beach Butoh Dance Workshop - Kokoro Dance, Vancouver
• ​Understanding Sexual Addiction - Jon Schwabach and Sarah Flynn
• ​We Are the Tools of the Trade: How the Therapist's Own Attachment Patterns Shape Therapy - Dr David Wallin

2014 ​

• Feminist Family Therapy WGST 425 - Athabasca University

 CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Private Practice 
Oct 2005-currently

the Foundry
Victoria Youth Clinic
Counsellor and Expressive Arts Therapist
May 2018-currently

Pearson Seminar on Youth Leadership 
Counsellor and Expressive Arts Therapist
Jul 2019

VOLUNTEERING

Victoria Hospice
​Unit Volunteer 2014- currently

​​REGISTERED MEMBERSHIP
BC Association of Clinical Counsellors

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION:
​International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA)

BC Art Therapy Association