Education

  • 2011 Ryerson University, Master’s of Social Work
  • 2010 Ryerson University, Bachelor of Social Work

Additional trainings & certifications:

  • The Neuroscience of Self-Compassion: Supporting your clients and yourself to access kindness and turn it inward with Juliane Taylor Shore
  • Group Facilitation Method Through ICA Associates
  • Working with Complex Trauma: Innovative approaches to mind-body integration with Linda Thai and Bessel van der Kolk
  • Generative Conflict: Leadership skills for Healthy workplaces with Big Waves
  • Transformational Strategy - Strategic thinking to produce breakthrough and action through ICA Associates
  • Meetings That Work: Practical tools to design and lead effective meeting through ICA Associates
  • Trauma-Informed Organizational Development Training and Trauma-Informed Leadership through The Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care
  • Introduction to Clinical Supervision through Laurier Social Work
  • Resisting Burnout and Vicarious Trauma with Justice-Doing & Believed-in Hope with Vikky Reynolds
  • Critical Incident Group Debriefing. Crisis Response and Trauma Institute
  • Anti-Black racism: What mental health workers need to know in order to work with the Black community in clinical/organizational practice, SickKids and Janelle Campbell
  • Somatic Experiencing Certification. Level 1 and 2 , Trauma Institute
  • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors, Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment ( TIST) with Janina Fisher
  • Inclusive Management Certificate with Anima Leadership
  • Healing Attachment Wounds and Affect Dysregulation with Lisa Ferentz
  • Safety, Belonnging and Dignity: Using the Generative Power of Somatics to Heal Individual and Systemic Trauma with Staci Haines
  • Certificate in Somatic Embodiment & Regulation Strategies with Linda Thai
  • Healing the Wounds of Racial Trauma: Embodied Somatic Healing for Systemic Racial Trauma, Becky Carter
  • Leadership and Culture - How to Create a Workplace Where People Like to Work, Randy Grieser.
  • Trauma-Informed Leadership. Randy Grieser
  • Trauma & Resistance: Responses to Oppression, Violence and Suffering with Vikky Reynolds
  • Clinical Social Work Supervision. University of Calgary.
  • Facing the Pain: Enhancing Resilience in Front-Line Workers, Natalie Zlodre
  • Toxic Stress and Trauma, Jane Clapp
  • Core Strength for Improved Emotional Resilience, Jane Clapp
  • Somatic Experiencing: Body-Oriented Approach to Trauma and Stress Disorders, Peter Levine
  • Resilience Toolkit Training Course, Lumos Transforms
  • Mindful Movement Level 1 Jane Clapp
  • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors, Dr. Janina Fisher
  • Brainstorm Intensive: A Practical Understanding for Keeping the Adolescent Brain in Mind, Dr. Dan Siegel
  • Rewiring the Traumatized Brain, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk Emotion-Focused Therapy of Depression & Anxiety, Dr. Les Greenberg
  • Emotion-Focused Therapy of Depression & Anxiety, Dr. Les Greenberg
  • Movement for Mental Health & Trauma, Urbanfitt
  • Trans Health for Social Service Providers, Rainbow Health Ontario
  • Grounding Techniques, Leading Edge Seminars
  • Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, The Hinks Dellcrest Centre Gail Appel Institute
  • Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Leading Edge Seminars Motivational Interviewing, Leading Edge Seminars
  • Motivational Interviewing, Leading Edge Seminars
  • Compassion Fatigue, The Hinks Dellcrest Centre Gail Appel Institute
  • Trauma Counseling for Front-Line Workers (Level 1), The Hincks Dellcrest Centre Gail Appel Institute
  • Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution Skills, St. Stephen’s House