​​​Therapeutic Modalities
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EMDR Therapy
Integrative, Holistic
Humanistic, Existential
Insight-Oriented Therapy
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Somatic Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Attachment Therapy
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Family Systems Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Motivational Interviewing

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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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Education

University of Lethbridge, Master of Education, Counselling Psychology, 2007 – 2010

• ​Honour Roll, Great Distinction (throughout)
• Graduate Thesis and research project: "Quality of Life & Social Capital in Sustainable Intentional Communities", 2010; funded by the J. Armand Bombadier Canadian Graduate Scholarship
• Research Assistant, Sept. 2007 - April 2008, "Transformations of Psychosis" ​

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​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

Trainings & Certifications
​2025

• Politics in Psychotherapy: The Ethics of Self-Disclosure, Managing Countertransference, & More
• Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral Health: Ethics and Risk Management Challenges 
• 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