TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

  • Rewire Therapy: Hypnotherapy for Trauma, 2022
  • How to Work with a Client's Emotional Triggers, 2022
  • Practical Skills for Working with a Client's Anger, 2022
  • Working With Somatic Components to Overcome Trauma-Related Fears, 2021
  • Healing Traumatic Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder, 2021
  • Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma, 2021
  • Emotion-Focused Therapy: Couple Interventions in the Age of Attachment, 2021
  • Understanding and Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder, 2020
  • Somatic Interventions for Treating Complex Trauma & Shame, 2020
  • Protecting Clients from Sexual Abuse and Misconduct, 2020
  • Treating Trauma: Master Series, 2019
  • Anxiety: New Interventions for Rapid & Effective Outcomes, 2019
  • Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, 2018
  • Training and Supervision in Assessment & Diagnosis, including clinical interviewing and psychological report-writing; 2016-2017
  • Suicide Assessment and Intervention within an EAP setting, 2017
  • Substance Abuse Expert, 2017
  • Relapse Prevention, 2017
  • Anger Management, 2016
  • Family Systems Therapy, 2016
  • Substance Abuse Screening within an EAP setting, 2016
  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, 2015
  • Disordered Eating: From Image to Illness, 2015
  • Conflict Transformation: Taking All Sides, 2015
  • Helping Clients Forgive, 2015
  • Emotional Integration, 2015
  • Depression Care, 2015
  • Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions, & Related Disorders, 2014
  • Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder, 2014
  • Helping Couples Achieve Greater Intimacy, 2014
  • Empowering Client's Need to Deepen Their Relationship to the Divine, 2014
  • Gottman Couples Therapy, 2013
  • Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach to Conflict, 2013
  • Crisis and Suicide Prevention and Intervention, 2013
  • Looking Forward: Dealing with Bereavement, 2013
  • Abuse Prevention and Reporting Protocol, 2012
  • Full-Body Awakening – Mind Body Integration, 2012
  • Solution-Focused Therapy, 2011
  • ThetaHealing Certification, Basic & Advanced, 2011
  • Supporting Father’s Involvement parenting group, Facilitator Training, 2011
  • Shamanism: Death, Dying, and Beyond, 2011
  • Introduction to Shamanism, 2011
  • Suicide Assessment and Prevention, 2011
  • Helping Professionals Create Resiliency in Youth, 2010
  • Strength-Based Counselling with At-Risk Children, Youth, and Families, 2010
  • AADAC Trauma-Informed Service, 2009
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, 2009
  • The Healing Power of Expressive Arts, 2008
  • Abuse Prevention & Response Protocol, 2006


EXPERIENCE

Director, Indigo Insight Counselling & Psychology, Inc.
Registered Psychologist, Jan. 2018 – present; Certified Counsellor, June 2010 - Jan. 2018
  • Person-centered counselling for individuals, adolescents, couples, and families
  • Return-to-Work Specialist, WCB and insurance claims, Substance Abuse Expert
  • "Art Alchemy" transformational art workshops; therapy group facilitation
Disability Services Worker, Quest Support Services, Aug. 2004 – May 2013
  • Providing care for individuals with disabilities and mental illnesses
Group Facilitator, Family Centre, Sept. 2010 – Sept. 2011
  • Supporting Father's Involvement (SFI) parent education and support group
Art Instructor, Schizophrenia Society, Sept. 2010 – June 2011
  • "Art Escapes" therapeutic group art activities
Addictions Counsellor, AADAC Youth Treatment Centre, Nov. 2009 – Oct. 2010
  • Psycho-educational groups and support
Counselling practicum, Lethbridge Family Services, Sept. 2008 – Apr. 2009
  • Individual counselling; group facilitation - grief support group and mandated offenders of domestic violence group
Art Instructor, Youth Employment Program - Lethbridge College, Jan. 2007 – Apr. 2007
  • Instructed youth in various therapeutic art-making activities, and in developing interpersonal and communication skills​

EDUCATION

University of Lethbridge, Master of Education, Counselling Psychology 2007 – 2010
  • Honor Roll, Great Distinction
  • Graduate 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
  • 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 and Applied Studies
  • Research Assistant, 2002-2005

THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES
(click on titles for further descriptions)

Integrative, Holistic
Humanistic, Existential
Insight-Oriented Therapy
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Somatic Therapy
Hypnotherapy
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
Exposure Therapy

SPECIALTIES

Couples counselling
Family counselling
Insurance, Disability, and WCB Claims
Telephone & Video counselling options

Telephone

Call or text   403-634-6609
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Email

indigoinsightcounselling@gmail.com