DEGREES AND CERTIFICATIONS:
- Master of Social Work with a primary focus on clinical counselling
- Registered with the Board of Registration for Social Work in B.C. in the clinical category (#00-107), and approved for prviate practice and for listings on the Board's Private Practice Roster in the areas of individuals, couples, families and groups.
- Certified by Family Mediation Canada for divorce mediation
- Ph.D. in English Language and Literature.
SELECTED TRAINING: Assessment:
- Two-day workshop on diagnosis and treatment, Otto Kernberg, MD, World Council for Psychotherapy Conference, Vienna, Austria.
- Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy , Scott Miller, Ph.D., Vancouver, BC.
- Outcome Research for Social Work, Judith Globerman, Ph.D., Vancouver, BC.
- Narrative Therapy in Australia, Two-year Gestalt Institute, Solution-focused Therapy and Brief Thearpy with different founders
- Two weeks, Intensives I and II in Narrative Therapy with Michael White, Dulwich Centre, Adelaide, Australia.
- Two four-day conferences in narrative practices, Therapeutic Conversations 6 and 7, Vancouver, B.C.
- Two-day workshop, Mapping Narrative Conversations, Michael White, Richmond, B.C.
- Two-year training program in Gestalt Psychotherapy, Jack Mullen, Ph.D., Boone, N.C.
- Three-day conference, Association . . . of Gestalt Therapy, New Orleans, LA.
- Three-day workshop, Gestalt Institute of Georgia, Susan Imes, Dahlonega, GA.
- Four-day conference on brief psychotherapies, Therapeutic Conversations 2, Reston, VA.
- Two-day Global Reach of Brief Therapy, Steve de Shazer, et al., Mt. View, C.A.
- Three-day brief therapy intensive, Paul Watzlawick et al, Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, C.A.
- Three, 3-day conferences, American Academy of Psychotherapists, Atlanta, Montreal, and San Francisco.
- Two, two-day intensive workshops in Hypnotherapy, Bob Dick, PhD., Chapel Hill, N.C.
- Two-day workshop, Client-focused therapy, William O'Hanlon, Ph.D., Vancouver, B.C.
- Two-day workshop in Peso-Boyden Psycho-motor Therapy, Al Pesso, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Abusive Relationships, Depression and Anxiety, Trauma:
- Two-day Restorative Practice after Domestic Abuse, Alan Jenkins, Vancouver. B.C.
- One-day, Management of Bipolar Disorder, Dr. Ranga Krirshnan, Duke U. Medical School, Durham, N.C.
- Two-day, Mood & Anxiety Disorders Conference, Riverview Hospital, Port Coquitlam.
- Two-day conference, Trauma, Dissociation and Attachment, Vancouver, B.C.
- Two-day workshop, Trauma & Sexual Compulsivity, Masters & Johnson, Charlotte, NC.
Problems with pornography, marijuana, drugs, or sexual compulsions
- Eleventh Substance Use State of the Art Conference, Kill Devil Hills, NC.
- Two-day workshop, Trauma & Sexual Compulsivity, Masters & Johnson, Charlotte, NC.
- Course, Substance Use Counseling, Community College, Sanford, NC.
- Substance Use Protocol, Referral and Assessment Issues, Raleigh, NC.
Family Therapy :
- Graduate courses in Family Therapy and Advanced Family Therapy, East Carolina University
- Two-year Intensive in family therapy, video-person, Satir Institute, Chapel Hill, NC.
- Divorce: How Families Cope and What Helps, Judith Wallerstein, Raleigh, NC.
- Treating Men in Families, Frank Pittman, Greensboro AHEC, Greensboro, NC.
- Two-day workshop, Therapy with sand trays, Raleigh, N.C.
Group Counselling:
- Group Psychotherpay, graduate course, East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C.
- Group certification course and three 4-day group trainings at conferences of Atlanta Group Psychotherapy Association, Georgia.
- One and two-day workshops at conference of American Group Psychotherapy Association, San Francisco, CA.
- Two 2-day courses [as experiential group], Advanced Gestalt Therapy, Prof. Jack Mulgrew, Appalachian State University, N.C.
- Two 5-day group therapy trainings (experiential), Jack Mulgrew, PhD, Appalachian State U., NC.
- "Healing and Destructive Forces in Groups" & "Resonance and Dissonance in Groups," Carolinas Group Psychotherapy Society, Chapel Hill.
- "Flexibly Bound Group Model for Persons with SPMI" Walter Stone, Durham, NC.
- Two group workshops, Canadian Group Psychotherapy Conference, Vancouver, B.C.
- Group work with addictive clients with chronic mental illness. CGPS, Durham, NC.
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