I have a BA in psychology from Simon Fraser University and an MA and PhD in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia.
I have trained at the Seattle Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Vancouver Institute for Psychoanalysis and I am a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association (FIPA) and a practicing psychoanalyst as well as a Registered Psychologist.
I also attended the Gestalt Institute of Vancouver and took advanced training in Group Leadership, Life Review, Psychodrama, Therapeutic Enactment, and EMDR through the British Columbia School of Professional Psychology.
I have attended numerous seminars focusing on many different types of cognitive-behavioural short-term therapies and many different types of issues affecting all ages.