This information is provided so that prospective clients can get a sense of my educational and professional background.
Formal education:
Master’s of Social Work 2006 / Bachelor of Arts degree, major in Psychology 2000
EMDR:
EMDR Certification 2023 / EMDR Basic Training 2020 / Interweaving EMDR with Indigenous Ways of Healing: Decolonizing Therapy / EMDR & Complex Trauma: Skills to Manage Therapeutic Impasse / EMDR and Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma / EMDR 2.0 / Simplifying Complex PTSD: new treatment approaches / EMDR for Complex Trauma: A tool for case conceptualization / EMDR Therapy Protocols for Early intervention & Ongoing Traumatic Stress
Cultural safety:
Palliative Care – Indigenous Perspectives on End of Life / Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Safety Training / In a Good Way: Putting the TRC Calls to Action into Practice / How do we address the barriers to reconciliation? / A community perspective of United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Addressing the impacts of Indigenous identity fraud / Allyship and confronting unconscious bias / Health related impacts of the residential school system / Engaging with Active Anti-Oppressive Anti-Racist (AOAR) Grounding Principles / Our Home on Native Land: Mobilizing Justice in Social Work Practice / UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Unconscious Bias and Debunking Stereotypes / Indigenous Peoples and the History of Residential Schools / Trans-Affirming Care and Practices
Trauma and trauma-informed care:
Trauma Informed Care workshop / What has your trauma made you believe? / Understanding what trauma healing looks like / How trauma shapes our attachment style / Ancestral trauma healing / Committing to the journey of trauma healing
Body and food related:
Supporting the healing journey: how providers can support ED recovery / Transforming Body Image / Eating Disorders – A toolkit
Group work:
Ran interpersonal psychodynamic CBT-based therapy groups 2018 and 2019 / ran CBT-based anxiety groups 2018 and 2019 / CBTm class facilitator / Experiential training group participant / Using group process in facilitating a CBT group / “The power of short term groups” – a panel discussion / Enhancing group therapy
Other:
Field Instructor for MSW student / Health Behaviour Change / Standards, A Road Map for Ethical Practice / Ethical decision-making in social work / The myth of self-sabotage: getting unstuck / The science of stuck / Harm reduction camp: harm reduction 101 / Klinic crisis lines training program / Klinic crisis lines volunteer / Suicide Assessment and Intervention / Helping with loss: Addressing the six needs of grief / Real self-care to redefine wellness / The 5 levels of compassion / Trust in your Self with Internal Family Systems / IFS study group / Motivational interviewing techniques / Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy / Risk and Liability in Social Work Practice / MAID and mental disorders