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Experience
I have been in Private Practice since 1987, providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy, counseling and art
therapy for clients with a range of issues including: anxiety, depression,
post traumatic stress, sexual abuse, addictions, life
transitions, grief, loss and relationship issues.
I have worked in provincial mental health centers both as:
a Psychotherapist providing assessment and psychoanalytically informed
individual and group psychotherapy to mental health patients suffering
from depression, anxiety, addictions and personality disorders
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an Art Therapist running groups for chronically
mentally ill patients.
I have also worked at sexual
assault centers, and other non profit counseling agencies.
I have trained and supervised Counselors at the Victoria Sexual Assault
Centre and Art Therapists at Victoria Mental Health.
I have taught Object Relations and Art Therapy; and Dream Work using Art Therapy at the British Columbia School of Art Therapy, Introduction to Psychopathology at the Vancouver College of Counselor
Training, and I have been a
teaching assistant at the
University of Victoria for the Group Processes course.
I have taught basic counseling skills to alternative health practitioners
at Langara College.
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Training
Psychoanalytic Candidate at the Vancouver Institute of Psychoanalysis
Substance Abuse Counselling Certificate VCC
M.A. equivalency Diploma in Art Therapy from the British Columbia School of Art Therapy
B.A. from the University of Victoria
Four Year Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Dr. Romero from the Seattle Institute
of Psychoanalysis; covering
Freud, Ego Psychology, Object Relations, Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity
Psychodynamic Training
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique, Basic Concepts in
Psychoanalysis, Salman Akhtar Seminar, Introduction to the Work of
Melanie Klein - the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society Western Branch
Knowledge and Authority in the Psychoanalytic Situation - Owen Renik
Making Sense Together: Intersubjectivity in Clinical Practice - Donna
Orange (WCPPA)
Dying Into Life - Marion Woodman
Demystifing Object Relations - (Annual Scientific Meeting WBCPS)
Analytic Listening and the Nature of Therapeutic Action - Dr. Evelyne
Schwaber
Intersubjectivity and Self Psychology - theory, practice and case
consultation - Helen Moran and Lolita Sabriel
Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity, Theory and Practice - Max Sucarov
and Nancy Nigro
Basic Concepts in Psychoanalysis - Simon Fraser University
Affect Regulation - Alan Shore
Narcissism - Elie Debbane
CPS
Western Branch Conference - Ethel Persons
Daniel Stern, Infant Psychotherapy Research - Implications for Clinical
Practice - the Seattle institute for Psychoanalysis
Borderline Personality Disorders and Their Management - Hassan Azim
Buddhism and Psychotherapy - Beth Trotter
Family Therapy Using the Satir Model - John Banman
Responding to Traumatic Rage - theory, practice and issues of the self
of the therapist - David L. Calof
Ethics and Feminist Therapy - Laura Brown, PhD.
Somatic Experiencing: working with shock and trauma - Dr. Peter Levine
Body Dynamics Training: a Developmental Psychotherapeutic Approach to
Boundary Issues, Shock and Trauma, 1 year training
Child Sexual Abuse Symposium: cycles of abuse - Sandra Butler, David
Finklehorn
Sexual Abuse Symposium - defensiveness, dissociation and denial - John
Briere
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Jungian Approach to Incest - Evangeline Kane, PhD.
Advanced Adult Sexual Abuse Training, 11 day training - various
facilitators
Multiple Personality Disorder - Dr. Marlene Hunter
Sex
Therapy - Joseph Lepicalo PhD
Methods of Treatment for Unresolved Trauma - Jane Middleton-Moz
Grief, Loss and the Process of Recovery - Jane Middleton-Moz
Victim Assistance Training - various facilitators
Facilitating Groups for Victim Populations - Maggie Ziegler
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Supervision
Peer Supervision and Consultation with
psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists
Object Relations Study Group - bi-weekly - 1998 to 2002
Psychodynamic supervision with Dr. Auby Axler
Psychoanalytic supervision with Dr. Eli Debbane
Membership in Professional Organizations
COR Northwest Family Development Center
British Columbia Art Therapy Association
Self-Psychology-Intersubjectivity Study Group
Western Branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Association
Western Canadian Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Association
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