EDUCATION

University of Lethbridge, Master of Education, Counselling Psychology, 2007 – 2010 ​
​University of Lethbridge, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, 2000 – 2005
  • ​Honour 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)
  • Published journal articles: "Ethology: International Journal of Behavioural Biology", 2008;  "Behavioral Processes", 2008; "Archives of Sexual Behavior", 2006
  • Co-op Work Experience: research and field studies in Japan, Nov. - Dec. 2003​
  • Applied Studies: Research Assistant in three different labs, 2000 - 2005 - "Human Sexuality & Behaviour", "Cognition & Perception", "Child Behaviour" labs
EXPERIENCE
  • Currently providing counselling for adults, couples, & families; psychological & behavioural interventions; general assessment & diagnosis, psychological report-writing; WCB & insurance claims
  • EMDR Trained 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
  • 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 & youth with disabilities & mental illnesses
  • Group Co-Facilitator, Family Centre, Sept. 2010 – Sept. 2011; "Supporting Father's Involvement" parenting education/support group
  • Volunteer Art Instructor, Schizophrenia Society, Sept. 2010 – June 2011; creator/facilitator of "Art Escapes" therapeutic art group
  • Addictions Counsellor, AADAC Youth Treatment Centre, Nov. 2009 – Oct. 2010; psycho-educational groups & counselling support for youth in treatment
  • Counselling practicum, Lethbridge Family Services, Sept. 2008 – Apr. 2009; counselling adults (under supervision); co-facilitated grief support group & domestic violence group
  • Therapeutic Art Instructor, Youth Employment Program - Lethbridge College, Jan. 2007 – Apr. 2007; therapeutic art-making activities; developing interpersonal & communication skills
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TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS
​2025
  • Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral Health: Ethics and Risk Management Challenges 
  • Politics in Psychotherapy: The Ethics of Self-Disclosure, Managing Countertransference, & More
  • Indigenous Learning Portal courses: Ancestral Knowledge & Healing Practices; Decolonizing Our Shared History: Remembering Our Place & 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 & Supervision in Assessment & Diagnosis; clinical interviewing & 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
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+1 (403) 634-6609 
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