LEARNING EDGE
2023
  • 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
​Private Practice 
Oct 2005-currently
Learning through Loss
Counsellor
Oct 2021-2022
Victoria Youth Clinic
Expressive Arts Therapist/Counsellor
May 2018-Sep 2021
Pearson Seminar on Youth Leadership 
Expressive Arts Therapist/Counsellor
Jul 2019
VOLUNTEERING
Victoria Hospice
​Unit Volunteer 2014- 2020
James Bay Community Project
​April 2020 - May 2021
​​REGISTERED MEMBERSHIP
BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION:
​International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA)
BC Art Therapy Association