Education + Training
I have spent years cultivating myself through personal inquiry, postsecondary education and rigorous training.
Trauma + Nervous System
I have been in private practice as a trauma therapist for 6 years. Additionally, I founded BodyWise Trauma Institute and educated thousands of providers in body based trauma informed care. Please note: I am not a licensed mental health clinician.
+Current Student of Somatic Therapy with Dr. Peter Levine Three Year Training
+Resilience and Regulation: a complex trauma approach with Dr. Kathy Kaine and Dr. Steven Tyrell
+Trauma Releasing Exercises with Dr. David Berscelli
+Nuero Affect Regulation Model candidate (NARM)
+Trauma Informed Yoga with The Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Center with Dr. Bessel van derKolk, David Emmerson, and Jen Turner
+Pre and Perinatal Trauma with Dr. Raja Selvan
+How The Body Keeps The Score Workshop with Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk
+Tao of Trauma with Aliane Duncan
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
+IFS Immersion, Integrating Internal Family Systems across Clinical Applications with Dr. Richard Shwartz and other senior IFS faculty 60 hours of IFS training
+Internal Family Systems Informed Therapist: IFS online circles a 6 month intensive with Dr. Richard Shwartz, Toni Herbine-Blank and Pamela Krause (IFS Institute)
+3 Week Course Integrating IFS and Psychedelic Research with Dr. Richard Shwartz along with Expert Lecturers in the Field of Psychedelic Assisted Therapies
Attachment
+Attachment Repatterning with George Hass level 1 & 2
+IPF application for Attachment Repair with Cedric Reeves
Psychedelics
+Psychedelic Coaching Certificate with Tahkole Bio Integration
+Psychedelics in Therapy: MDMA, Psilocybin, Ketamine, Micro-Dosing
+Ethics and Psychedelics: Ethical Issues in the Use of Psychedelic Medicines
with Temple Morris, LCSW-C + Miranda Morris, PhD
Embodiment
+Cranio Sacral Training with the Upledger Insitute
+Board Certified Structural Integrator (BCSI) with Tom Meyers and Kenisis (this modality is also known as Rolfing)
+Thai Massage: Certified Advanced Practitioner and Teacher Training Program (CAPT) 390 Hours at the International Training Massage School in Chang Mai Thailand
+ Dance residency at Leviathan Center on Lasqueti Island, BC
+AcroYoga International Teacher Training
+Over 2,000 hours of yoga training with inspirational programs and mentors (like the Nosara Yoga Institute and the Himalayan Iyengar Institute in India)
Ancestral Wisdom + Herbalism
+Family Constellations: a Guide to the soul of the family field with the Hellinger Institute (Candidate) Two Year Training
+Lineage of Love with Sacred Ancestry
+Ongoing Herbalism Mentoring with Sean Padriag O’Donahue at the Otherworld Well Hedge School
+Herbal Foundations at Sky House Herb School with Ashley Elenbass
+Earth Activism with Animus Valley Institute
+Soul Craft Intensive with Animus Valley Institute
Nutrition, Bio-hacking, + Breathwork
+Breathwork facilitation with Jessica Dibb and Inspiration Consiousness School (4 Years of Training)
+I have training in practices that promote mitochondrial health like intermittent fasting, zone 2 cardio, + cold exposure. And training in practices that promote Nuer-plasticity (rewiring the brain) and increasing vagal tone
+Nutrition Coaching with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition
Mindfulness Meditation + Buddhism
+Mindfulness Teacher with Dr. Tara Brach + Dr. Jack Kornfeild (Candidate) Two Year Training
+Over 115 days in silent retreat or in silence studying Buddhist theory courses
Conscious Communication
I have fallen deeply in love with these practices and intend to one day teach this content. I am currently in a monthly peer practice group and preparing for Level 4.
+Authentic Relating Level I: The Art of Being Human
+Authentic Relating Level II: The Art of Being Human Level 2
+Authentic Relating Level III: Emerging Leadership Training
+Authentic Relating + IFS
. . . as well as decades of Self Cultivation.