How do people manage and transform difficult life experiences? If our innate creativity and sense of aliveness can be supported and encouraged, we are capable of great healing and development.
With this in mind, I have enjoyed working with adults in a number of counselling roles over the last sixteen years. My clinical experience has also involved counselling children and adults with developmental disabilities and their families. I am currently focused on private practice with adults in areas such as grief and loss, trauma, disability, and personal development.
I hold a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of Victoria. My graduate research focused on adjustment to disability and the healing effects of journal writing. These interests built on my undergraduate work in Creative Writing and Psychology. I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, which is a specific approach for resolving trauma that supports the body’s own natural healing processes.
The value of volunteerism in the helping fields has long been of interest to me and I hold a Certificate in Volunteer Management from Camosun College.
I am certified with the Canadian Counselling Association and the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. These memberships are voluntary, and show that I have met both provincial and national standards for education, professional conduct, and clinical competence. I am required by my memberships to abide by a Code of Ethics and to take part in continuing education.
I am a service provider for the Crime Victims Assistance Program and for an Employee Family Assistance Program.