Thank you for taking the time to visit my website. It’s important you know something about my professional background and credentials.I am a registered social worker and member of good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. This is the governing body, which ensures that your rights are protected when you enter into a counselling/therapeutic relationship.
Education:
- Master of Social Work, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
- Bachelor of Social Work, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
- Bachelor of Arts, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Work Experience:
- Twenty-five years of direct client counselling/case management experience
- Grief and loss
- Bereavement; Acute, Complicated, Prolonged/
- Adjustment to injury and illness
- Return to work after an injury or illness
- Anxiety and Depression
- Self-Esteem
Therapeutic Approach:
- Primarily utilize a psychodynamic therapeutic approach: focus is on the interrelation between the conscious and unconscious forces which shape our decisions and behaviour, and how our past can impact our present
- Also utilize a combination of attachment-based, solution-focused, strengths-based, narrative approach, and cognitive behaviour techniques
Other training:
- Trauma, Memory, and the Restoration of One's Self - Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
- Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma - Dr. Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
- Death and Grief Certificate - Dr. Aland Wolfelt, Ph.D.
- C.B.T.: Mind over Mood - Dr. Christine Padesky, Ph.D.
- Emotional Focused Therapy - Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone, Ph.D.
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) Workshop Facilitator - Living Works, Calgary, Alberta
- Advanced Community Crisis Response Training - National Organization of Victim Assistance (NOVA)
- Traumatic Incident Stress Reduction - Applied Metapsychology International
- Advanced Social Work with Older Adults - Ontario College of Social Workers
- Cybercounselling Certificate - Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto and TherapyOnLine
Professional Memberships:
- Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW)
- Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW)
- Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW)
- Bereavement Ontario Network (BON)
- Grief Australia (GA)
- Bereavement Network Europe (BNE)
