LEARNING EDGE

2025

• Awareness Through Movement - Renee Lindstrom
• Vocal Freedom and Expression Through Improvisation - Viviane Houle

2024

• Introduction to Contemporary Dance - Kathy Lang
• Wreck Beach Butoh Dance Workshop - Kokoro Dance
• ​​Vocal Freedom and Expression Through Improvisation - Viviane Houle
• Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse​ - Suzanne Iasenza
• San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training
• Working with Children: Getting Comfortable with Different Levels of Risk - Candice Alder & John Paul Boyd

2023

• 3rd Annual Autism Symposium  - Templin Grandin, Stephen Porges, Robert Grant, Ruth Aspy, Jeffrey Guenzal, etc.
• Play Therapy for Children in the Context of High Conflict Divorce: Promoting Meaningful Therapy and Avoiding Pitfalls - Dr. Sarina Kot

2022

• Clinical Trauma Professional: Trauma Competency Conference-Dr Eric Gentry
• Fundamentals of Anti-Oppression-Lucky Sund
• ​Wreck Beach Butoh Dance Workshop - Kokoro Dance
• Dreams and Your Personal Journey - JungPlatform Summit, various presenters
• Grief Treatment Toolbox for Kids & Teens: Innovative Assessment & Treatment Strategies to Support Grief Processing Among Children & Adolescents - Dr Erica Sirrine
• Queering Mental Health - Our Landing Place, various presenters

2021

• Clinical Practice at the Intersections of Gender Diversity and Autism - Trans Care BC, Dr Ashleigh Yule
  
• Three Pillars of Clinical Practice: Attachment, the Body & Relational Repair - Lisa Mortimore
• Creating Cultural Safety for trans Indigenous and Two-Spirit peoples - Trans Care BC, Dr Marria Townsend
• Diversity Training: Standing Together and Caring for One Another - Len Pierre
• Beginners Yoga - Sivananda Yoga Centre, Gurgaon
• Digital Ethics for Clinicians - Dr Kelly Kolmes 
• Let's Talk Overdose - UBC
• Indigenous Canada - University of Alberta
• ​Being with Suffering 1: Tools for Clinical Practice in the Midst of Crisis - Upaya Zen Centre
• Being with Dying - Upaya Zen Centre
• Racism and Resilience - Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc & Ace Chan
• Supporting Gender Diverse Survivors Training - Mattie Walker
• Ethical Decision Making in Transgender Care - Dr Beth Clark
• High-Risk Substance Use and Overdose Conference - UBC
• Expressive Arts in Transit: Bringing Hope in the Face of Darkness  Symposium​ - Melinda A. Meyer
• Soul and Science - Sacred Art of Living

2020

• Foundry Virtual Walk-in Counselling - Lawrence Murphy​
• 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

​dRAW heART
Expressive Arts Therapist/RCC
2005-currently

Learning through Loss
Expressive Arts Therapist/RCC
2021-2022

Victoria Youth Clinic
Expressive Arts Therapist/RCC
2018-2021

Pearson Seminar on Youth Leadership 
Expressive Arts Therapist/RCC
2019

VOLUNTEERING

Victoria Hospice
​Unit Volunteer 2014- currently

​​REGISTERED MEMBERSHIP
BC Association of Clinical Counsellors