Additional Training
In addition to the professional development listed below, I participate in monthly group consultation for EMDR, and a peer consultation group. Both groups aid in my ongoing learning to help review therapeutic approaches, practices, and stuck points.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING
- EMDR Therapy with Integrative Bridging: A conscious, compassionate approach for building more connection between the adult self, the little self and the guiding self, for complex trauma, Deborah Nielsen, EMDR Canada Conference, April 2022
- Health Issues as a Doorway for Healing Trauma: Changing Our Destiny, Irene R. Siegel, Ph.D., EMDR Canada Conference, April 2022
- Universal Psychotherapy Addiction Treatment, Terence Wade, PhD, MAC, & Darlene Wade, LCSW, CSAC, EMDR Canada Conference, April 2022
- Issues in Consent, Capacity, Documentation and Confidentiality, Robert Soloman, Nov 2021
- Embodying The Unspoken Self: Working with Implicit Communication and the Body in Complex Trauma, Kathy Steele, MN, CS, Envision Canada, April 2021
- Working With Parts in Dissociative Disorders: A Practical Guide for Trauma Therapists, Dolores Mosquera, Clinical Psychologist, Envision Canada, March 2021
- EMDR Basic Training Certificate, 85 hours of training completed with Sue Genest, Jan - May 2021.
- Online Grief Literacy Training Levels 1 & 2, Being Here, Human, 2020
- Trauma in the Mind’s Eye: Mitigating & Eliminating Intrusive Thoughts, Flashbacks & Nightmares, Natalie Zlodre MSW, RSW, mission: empowerment!, 2019
- The State of Affairs: A New Clinical Approach to Infidelity, Esther Perel, Leading Edge Seminars Inc., 2018
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), LivingWorks, CMHA, 2016
- Listen for Change: Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice, Trinity Institute, 2016
- Social Work Talk Series: Use of Self ; Supporting Trans/Gender Fluid Youth; Self-care for helping professionals, KW Counselling Services/Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2016
- Creative Approaches to Getting Un-stuck and Moving in Therapy, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2015
- LGBTQ, Working with Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity, Allisa Scott, 2014
- Motivational Interviewing, Angela Rolleman, 2014
- Social Media & Internet Safety, Waterloo Regional Police Services, 2014
- Treatment and Mental Health Laws: Children & Youth, Grand River Hospital, 2014
- Vicarious Trauma, Grand River Hospital, 2014
- Relationship Based Strengths Approach, Stephen de Groot, 2014
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Trauma in Children and Youth, Heather Fiske, 2012
- Crossing Cultural Borders, Dr. Celia Falicov, 2012
- Suicide Prevention Training, Lutherwood, 2011
- Developmental Trauma & Disturbances of Attachment, Dr. Richard Zayed, CPRI, 2010
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Children & Adolescents with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder & Anxiety, Dr. Aureen Wagner, Toronto, 2008
- Solution Focused Therapy Training, Heather Hair, 2008
- Narrative Therapy/Single Session Training, Karen Young, 2008
- The Impact of Trauma on Early Childhood Development, 2005
EDUCATIONAL SKILLS/PRESENTATIONS
- Recruited to Present on the topic of, “Anxiety and School Refusal,” for the Waterloo Region District School Board, 2012
- Developed and delivered workshop on managing anxiety in children/youth, Lutherwood Speaker Series, 2010
- Developed and led a highly successful self-esteem and healthy body image group for adolescent girls, titled “Girl Power” which the agency, now named Carizon, continued to offer post practicum placement
