Qualification Highlights

I’ve had a life-long interest in human psychology and its relationship to the body, culture, technology, science, nature, spirituality, and the cosmos. As a young adult, I became deeply interested in psychological, physical, and spiritual wellbeing and a vital healing journey has unfolded.

While I have had the good fortune to learn from many remarkable educators and mentors, it is my lived experience that has been my most profound teacher and informs my compassion, strength and effectiveness as a psychotherapist. My years of life experience, education, and clinical acumen inform my understanding of the life challenges and transitions that you may be facing. I hold with upmost respect the privilege of meeting you in this place.

Experience with…

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

  • Early Attachment Injuries such as Emotional Neglect and Rejection

  • Loss of a Parent

  • Adoption

  • Self-Abandonment and Shame

  • Low Self-Worth

  • Rejection of the Body

  • Self-Sabotage

  • Generational Recovery from the Trauma of Alcoholism

  • Parenting Support and Education

  • Anxiety and Depression

  • People Pleasing

  • Addiction

  • Perfectionism

  • Disordered Eating

  • Career and Parenting

  • Recovery from Narcissistic Injury

  • Relationships and Marriage

  • Divorce

  • Single Parenting

  • Parent/Child Estrangement

  • Life Transitions

  • The Passage of Menopause

  • Immigration and Relocation

  • Generational Recovery from the Trauma of War

  • Workplace Challenges

  • Health Challenges and Crises

  • AI and its Impact on our Humanity

  • Dissatisfaction with Life

  • Existential Fear and Climate Change

  • Human as Digital Consumer: The Curated Persona and the Loss of Soul

  • Fear of Life and Self-Expression

Photo: Lisa Holien

Education and Registration

Canadian Certified Counsellor and Psychotherapist (C.C.C.) Registration#10004382

Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (Honours), Yorkville University

Master of Arts Mythological Studies with an emphasis on Depth Psychology (Year One), Pacifica Graduate Institute

Bachelor of Arts in the Classics, English and Fine Arts (Honours), University of Alberta

Trainings and Professional Development Highlights

Spiritual Homebase Seminars (2026) with Caroline Myss (Anatomy of the Spirit, Sacred Contracts)

Jungian Women and the Soul’s Journey (2026) with Marlene Schiwy, Ph.D.

The Functions of Image in Psychological Process (2026) with Mark Dean, Ph.D.

Passage to Poros: Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of the Healing (2026) with Edward Tick, Ph.D. (Soul Medicine, War and the Soul, The Practice of Dream Healing)

Guide to the Power of Your Soul (2025) with Caroline Myss (Anatomy of the Spirit, Sacred Contracts)

Applied Jungian Psychology Certification (2024) The Centre of Applied Jungian Studies

Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training (2019) with Dr. Gabor Maté (In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, The Myth of Normal in a Toxic Culture)

Singing over the Bones (2017) with Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. (Women Who Run with the Wolves)

Trauma, Body and the Brain (2015) with Dr. Bessell van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score)

The Wounded Healer (2015) with Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. (Women Who Run with the Wolves)

Hospice Volunteer Training (2015) with BC Hospice Palliative Care Association

Art as a Sacred Act (2014) with Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. (Women Who Run with the Wolves)

The Lost and Recovered Soul in the Psychotherapy of Early Trauma (2014) with Donald Kalsched, Ph.D. (The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit)

Number and Geometry of Time-honored and Primordial Mysteries: An Introduction (2013) with Evangeline Rand, Ph.D. (Recovering Feminine Spirituality, C.G. Jung as Artisan)

Simplicity Parenting (2010) with Kim John Payne, M.Ed. (The Soul of Discipline, Being at Your Best with Your Kids are at Their Worst)

Relationships: Psychodynamics of Self & Other (2009) with James Hollis, Ph.D. (The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife, The Archetypal Imagination)

Mothering and Spirituality: Resourcing Feminine Wisdom (2006) with Rahima Baldwin Dancy, M.A (You are Your Child’s First Teacher) and Betty Peck, Ph.D. (Kindergarten Education: Freeing Children’s Creative Potential)

Resolving Conflict through Storytelling (2006) with Nancy Mellon, M.A. (Body Eloquence: The Power of Myth and Story to Awaken the Body’s Energies)

Parenting as a Path of Growth and Development (2004) with Peggy O’Mara (Natural Family Living) and Lee Sturgeon Day (A Slice of Life, Biography and Life-Cycles)

Body and Soul (2000) with Marion Woodman, Ph.D. (Addiction to Perfection, The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation)

Mentorship

Jungian Analyst Russell Lockhart, Ph.D. (Psyche Speaks, Words as Eggs)

Registered Psychologist Evangeline Rand, Ph.D. (Recovering Feminine Spirituality, C.G. Jung as Artisan)