Training & Credentials

For those who want to know more about the training and experience behind this work.

Registration

Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC #2923) — Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada

Summary

Five years' experience as a therapeutic counsellor integrating trauma-informed and somatic approaches. Skilled in nervous system regulation, relational attunement, and attachment-informed work. Ongoing Somatic Experiencing mentorship and embodied yoga practice inform a grounded, client-centered approach that supports deep healing and authentic expression.

Clinical & Supervision Hours

Direct Client Contact: 800+ hours (private practice and contract work, cumulative as of 2025)

Supervision: 225+ hours (individual and group, cumulative as of 2025)

Ongoing mentorship with a Somatic Experiencing practitioner for six years; current clinical supervisor is also an SE practitioner

Core Clinical Training

Professional Counsellor Diploma — Rhodes Wellness College (2021)

Somatic Attachment Therapy Program — The Embody Lab (2022)

Parts Work Therapy Certificate — with Bea Rhodes (2025)

Foundational & Complementary Study

240-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certificate — Vancouver School of Healing Arts (2014)

Holistic Nutrition Diploma — Canadian School of Natural Nutrition (2015)

Herbalist Diploma — Dominion Herbal College (2019)

Arkaya Mindfulness & Yoga Teacher Training (2019)

My path here didn't start in a therapy room. It started in the body — through yoga, nutrition, and herbalism — long before I had language for somatic work or parts work. That earlier training is a part of the foundation of how I practice now: with the body as much as the mind.