Qualifications & professional registration
Nature-Based Therapy training (in progress)
Introduction to Therapeutic Nature-Based Interventions (Somatic Nature Therapy Institute, Colorado)
Nature-Based Therapy in Practice (Human-Nature Counselling Society, British Columbia)
Advanced Nature-Based Expressive Arts Therapy: healing trauma and grief with nature (with Dr Cathy Malchiodi)
Somatic Experiencing training (in progress)
PhD in Expressive Arts Therapy
(International University of Professional Studies)
MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy (5 year clinical program)
(Metanoia Institute/Middlesex University)
MA in Archaeology & Anthropology
(University of Cambridge)
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training
(with Dr. Janina Fisher, PhD)
Certificate in Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy
(Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute: www.trauma-informedpractice.com)
Practitioner Diploma in Working with Eating Disorders
(The National Centre for Eating Disorders)
Practitioner Certificate in Working with Addictions & Eating Disorders
(Metanoia Institute)
Diploma in Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy
(Two years post-qualifying training with Dr Ruella Frank at the Center for Somatic Studies in New York)
Post-qualifying training in Clinical Supervision
(Psychosynthesis & Education Trust, London)
Telehealth training
(www.pesi.com)
Registered Clinical Counsellor and Approved Clinical Supervisor (RCC-ACS #13474) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (www.bc-counsellors.org)
Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT #2134) with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (www.ieata.org)
Registered Canadian Art Therapist (RCAT #350-R-23) with the Canadian Art Therapy Association (www.canadianarttherapy.org)
Approved Practitioner by the National Eating Disorders Information Centre (www.nedic.ca)