Credentials & Licenses

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)—Missouri #2025043083

Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC)—#11250532

Board Certified Telemental Health Provider (BC-TMH)—#BC-TMH-4103

Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC)—#1726528

Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level 2 (CCTP-II)—(#779274)

Trainings

2021—The Mindsight Approach to Well-Being: A Comprehensive Course in Interpersonal Neurobiology by Dr. Dan Siegal

2021—The Power of Awareness Mindfulness Training by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach

2022—Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) through Roy Kiessling’s EMDR Consulting

2023—Janina Fisher’s Trauma Treatment Certification Training (CCTP) by Dr. Janina Fisher

2023—Dissociation-Focused Trauma Treatment: IFS, Somatic, CBT, EMDR, Polyvagal Strategies & More

2023—Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Attachment Trauma: Transforming Psychological Wounds for Adult Clients Traumatized as Children by Dr. Sue Johnson & Dr. Leanne Campbell

2024—Trauma-Related Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: Assessment and Treatment Strategies for Some of the Most Misunderstood Disorders in the DSM

2024—Introduction to Dissociation and the MID (Multidimentional Inventory of Dissociation 6.0) with D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW & Jennifer Madere, MA, LCP-S

2024—Integrating the Multidimential Inventory of Dissociation into Clinical Practice with D. Michael Coy, MA, LICSW & Jennifer Madere, MA, LCP-S

2024—Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse: Working with Survivors of Adverse Religious Experiences by Candice Dickens, LCPC-S, LCADC-S, CCTP, MAC

2024-2025—Certification Prgramme in Advanced Trauma, PTSD & Dissociation, Dr. Ruth Lanius, et al.

2025—Trauma-Attachment Regulation & Integration Process Therapy (TRIP) by Monique Hoving, MFT/RCC

2025—First Nations Approaches to Healing Trauma: Ancestral Wisdom and Soul Retrieval by Dr. Patricia Vickers

Education

2023—MS Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Missouri State University, USA)

2015 PhD—Medieval Studies (University of Toronto, Canada)

2000—MA Medieval Studies (University of Toronto, Canada)

1998—BA Medieval Studies (University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada)

Curious about my research and publications in Medieval Studies? You can find more information here and here.

Professional Memberships

American Counseling Association (ACA)

Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association—L’Association canadienne de counseling et de psychothérapie (CCPA-ACCP)

International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD)

EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)