Background and Experience.
Academic Background:
- Master of Social Work, Yeshiva University - New York, USA
Thesis: Death and Loss in the Family: A family systems approach to examining change in the family structure after the loss of a loved one.
- BA, University of British Columbia - Vancouver, BC
Major areas of study: Psychology, English, Family Studies.
- Pacific Coast Family Therapy Institute - Vancouver, BC
Two year post Master's level training in family systems approach to individual, couple and child therapy.
- Continuing Legal Education - Vancouver, BC
Collaborative Divorce training for lawyers, mental health professionals and financial specialists to create a working team of divorce professionals.
Work Experience:
- Private practice: individual, couple, family and child therapist; Collaborative Divorce Coach.
- Family Counsellor: Project Parent Fraser South: counselling at risk families, working with MCFD with child protection concerns, parenting plans and supervised access.
- Sunrise/Choices Adoption Agencies: compiling home studies for prospective adoptive parents, facilitation of the adoption process, birth mother counselling, post adoption counselling.
- Medical Social Worker: Surrey Memorial hospital, psychiatry.
- Group workshop facilitator: Family Services of Greater Vancouver: workshops include: dealing with anger, communication for couples, improving self-esteem, survivors of sexual abuse.
- Air Canada/Canadian Airlines: Coach, Project Green: on site counsellor working with employees, management and unions to help cope with the transition of the merger between Air Canada and Canadian Airlines. EAP counselling with employees in private practice.
- Employee Assistance Counsellor (EAP) for several agencies, working with employees on a variety of individual, couple, family or work place issues.
- Criminal Injury Compensation Program: working with victims impacted by the trauma associated with a criminal incident.
- Residential Historical Abuse Program (RHAP): working with adults who were sexually abused as children in the residential care/foster care program as children.
- Non-Insured Health Benefits: Indian Affairs: crisis counselling for aboriginal clients: individual, couple, family or child counselling.
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