EDUCATION
University of Lethbridge, Master of Education, Counselling Psychology, 2007 – 2010
- Honor Roll, Great Distinction (throughout)
- Graduate Thesis and research project: "Quality of Life and Social Capital in Eco-Communities" funded by the J. Armand Bombadier Canadian Graduate Scholarship
- Research Assistant, Sept. 2007 - April 2008, "Transformations of Psychosis"
The University of Lethbridge, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology 2000 – 2005
- Honor Roll, Great Distinction (throughout)
- recipient of several grants and scholarships
- Undergraduate Thesis: "Sexual Reward as a Proximate Mechanism for Mounting in Female Japanese Macaques" funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). See "Links" for list of publications.
- Co-op Work Experience: research and field studies in Japan, Nov. - Dec. 2003
- Applied Studies: Research Assistant in three different labs, 2000 - 2005
​TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS​
2025
- Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral Health: Ethics and Risk Management Challenges 
- Navigating the Political Minefield in Psychotherapy: The Ethics of Self-Disclosure, Managing Countertransference, and More
- Indigenous Learning Portal courses: Ancestral Knowledge and Healing Practices; Decolonizing Our Shared History: Remembering Our Place and Purpose; Healing From the Land
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model of Psychotherapy
- IFS in Action: Leading Clients to Self-Leadership
- EMDR - Understanding Structural Dissociation & How to Prepare the Work
- EMD, EMDr, and Taxing Working Memory During Desensitization
- EMDR and Complex Trauma
2024
- Best Practices in Clinical Supervision: A Blueprint for Providing Effective & Ethical - Clinical Supervision
- EMDR with First Nations Clients
- EMDR & Racial Trauma
- EMDR: Identifying, Activating, & Strengthening Adaptive Networks
​- Indigenous Awareness Certificate
- Attachment Healing Through Memory Reconsolidation
2023
- Basic Training in EMDR
2022
- Rewire Therapy: Hypnotherapy for Trauma
- How to Work with a Client's Emotional Triggers
- Practical Skills for Working with a Client's Anger
2021
-Working With Somatic Components to Overcome Trauma-Related Fears
-Healing Traumatic Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder
-Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma
-Emotion-Focused Therapy: Couple Interventions in the Age of Attachment
2020
-Understanding and Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder
-Somatic Interventions for Treating Complex Trauma & Shame
-Protecting Clients from Sexual Abuse and Misconduct
2019
-Treating Trauma: Master Series
-Anxiety: New Interventions for Rapid & Effective Outcomes
2018
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
2017
-Training and Supervision in Assessment & Diagnosis, including clinical interviewing and psychological report-writing
-Suicide Assessment and Intervention within an EAP setting
-Substance Abuse Expert
-Relapse Prevention
2016
-Anger Management
-Family Systems Therapy
-Substance Abuse Screening within an EAP setting
2015
-Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
-Disordered Eating: From Image to Illness
-Conflict Transformation: Taking All Sides
-Helping Clients Forgive
-Emotional Integration
-Depression Care
2014
-Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions, & Related Disorders
-Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder
-Helping Couples Achieve Greater Intimacy
-Empowering Client's Need to Deepen Their Relationship to the Divine
2013
-Gottman Couples Therapy
-Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach to Conflict
-Crisis and Suicide Prevention and Intervention
-Looking Forward: Dealing with Bereavement
2012
-Abuse Prevention and Reporting Protocol,
-Full-Body Awakening – Mind Body Integration
2011
-Solution-Focused Therapy
-ThetaHealing Certification, Basic & Advanced
-Supporting Father’s Involvement parenting group, Facilitator Training
-Shamanism: Introduction to Core Shamanism; Death, Dying, & Beyond; Spirits of Nature
-Suicide Assessment and Prevention
2010
-Helping Professionals Create Resiliency in Youth
-Strength-Based Counselling with At-Risk Children, Youth, and Families
2009
-AADAC Trauma-Informed Service
-Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
2008
-The Healing Power of Expressive Arts
2007
-Abuse Prevention & Response Protocol
EXPERIENCE
Certified EMDR Therapist, May 2023 - present
Registered Psychologist, College of Alberta Psychologists, Jan. 2018 – present
Director of Indigo Insight Counselling & Psychology, Inc., Jan. 2011 - present
Certified Counsellor, Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association, June 2010 - Aug. 2025
- counselling for adults, adolescents, couples, and families; psychological and behavioural interventions 
- general assessment, diagnosis, psychological report-writing
- WCB and insurance claims
EAP (Employee Assistance Program) Counsellor, June 2010 - Feb 2018
- Return-to-Work Specialist; Substance Abuse Expert; Depression Care Expert
Disability Services Worker, Quest Support Services, Aug. 2004 – May 2013
- providing care for adults and youth with disabilities and mental illnesses
Group Facilitator, Family Centre, Sept. 2010 – Sept. 2011
- co-facilitator of "Supporting Father's Involvement" parenting education and support group
Volunteer Art Instructor, Schizophrenia Society, Sept. 2010 – June 2011
- creator and facilitator of "Art Escapes" therapeutic group art activities for individuals with Schizophrenia
Addictions Counsellor, AADAC Youth Treatment Centre, Nov. 2009 – Oct. 2010
- psycho-educational groups and counselling support for youth in treatment
Counselling practicum, Lethbridge Family Services, Sept. 2008 – Apr. 2009
- counselling adults (under supervision)
- co-facilitated "Sharing Our Loss" grief support group, and "Accountability for Change" mandated offenders of domestic violence group
Therapeutic Art Instructor, Youth Employment Program - Lethbridge College, Jan. 2007 – Apr. 2007
​- co-facilitated youth in various therapeutic art-making activities, and in developing interpersonal and communication skills


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