Background

Education

BA University of California at Berkeley, Design, 1971
MA University of Victoria, Counselling Psychology, 1978
EdD McGill University, Educational Psychology and Counselling, 1990

I completed my Doctor of Education from McGill University in 1990 in Educational Psychology and Counselling with a year of Family Therapy courses in the Faculty of Social Work. My doctoral research focused on adult attachment issues in people with difficulties sustaining intimate, committed relationships.

Work Experience

I worked in addictions from 1978 to 1983 (detox, outpatient counselling and residential treatment with the Department of National Defense). From 1983 to 1986, I provided individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy for adults, and children and youth in community mental health centres. From 1990 to 1992, after completing my doctorate, I was the Child and Youth Coordinator for North Shore Community Mental Health Centre in North Vancouver, BC. From 1992 to 2000, I worked for Wilson Banwell & Associates providing solution focused therapy to individuals, couples and families. In addition to this, I was the Eating Disorders Psychologist at North Shore Mental Health Centre from 1997 to 2004. From 2004 to 2014, I worked on a brief-stay psychiatric unit at Vancouver General Hospital providing psychological assessments to the team when there were questions of differential diagnosis. I also have extensive experience working with First Nations people. I have been in private practice since 1992.

Curriculum Vitae.

Training

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Bioenergetic Analysis
Gestalt Therapy
Dream Therapy
Family Therapy
Couples Therapy
Trauma Therapy
Somatic Experiencing
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy

Registration & Membership

College of Psychologists of BC #773
BC Psychological Association
Canadian Psychological Association

Internship & Supervision

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, Western Branch Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, 2007 – ongoing
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy supervision groups with
Dr. Debbane, 2002 – 2004
Dr. Axler, 1999 – 2003
Dr. Azim, 1994 – 1999
Doctoral Internship, Allan Memorial Institute, Child & Adolescent Clinic, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1987
Co-therapy & supervision with two psychologists & one psychiatrist, 1979 – 1980

Research

Personal Growth Self-Help Groups: Origins, Functions, Issues and Self-Reports of Participants
1977 Master's Thesis, University of Victoria
Exploratory Study of the Long-term Unattached
1989 Doctoral Dissertation, McGill University