Experience


I have been in Private Practice since 1987, providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy, counselling 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 also worked in provincial mental health centers: providing assessment and treatment to patients suffering from depression, anxiety, addictions and personality disorders,
and running Art Therapy groups for chronically mentally ill patients. 

I have extensive experience as a trauma counsellor at sexual assault centers, and other non profit counselling agencies.

I have trained and supervised Counselors at the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre and Art Therapists at Victoria Mental Health and have continued to supervise  practitioners in private practice. 

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.

Membership in Professional Organizations

Supervision

  • Peer Supervision and Consultation with psychoanalytic psychotherapists 
  • Object Relations Study Group - bi-weekly - 1998 to 2002
  • Psychodynamic supervision with Dr. Auby Axler 
  • Psychoanalytic supervision with Dr. Eli Debbane 

Justice Institute of B.C.

  • 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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Janet Oakes Self Portrait
MY PUBLISHED WORK

Education

  • Psychoanalyst ~ Vancouver Institute of Psychoanalysis
  • M.A. ~ Simon Fraser University
  • Substance Abuse Counselling Certificate ~ Vancouver Community College 
  • M.A. equivalency Diploma in Art Therapy ~ British Columbia School of Art Therapy
  • B.A. ~ University of Victoria 
After Modigliani by Janet Oakes
After Modigliani by Janet Oakes

Psychodynamic Training

  • 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 
  • 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 - (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

Other Training

  • 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
  • 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: cycles of abuse - Sandra Butler, David Finklehorn 
  • Sexual Abuse: defensiveness, dissociation and denial - John Briere 
  • A Jungian Approach to Incest - Evangeline Kane