Professional Memberships & Associations

Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada

Some Therapeutic Approaches that Inform my Work:

My teachers in the tradition of grief-tending and ritual have shown me a way of sitting in the Heart...one which isn't tipped forward in the fixed position of trying to "look on the bright side". I found in them an aliveness that encompassed the full spectrum of what it is to be a human in a sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes devastating world: a grounded, unflinching acceptance of death and pain and the transience of things. I've found their example so important in learning how to sit with others who are in intense pain. To be with someone, letting myself be touched by their pain. Not creating an uncomfortable gap that ulimately leaves both people alone.

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My teachers in the field of somatic therapy support me in the ongoing, endless learning involving the polyvagal nervous system's complex interplay with beliefs emotions, instincts and waking dreams. How attunement to physical sensation and the inner world can transform trauma.

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Jungian psychology has offered me a map of Wholeness that includes priorities and a layered of reality that matches and helps make sense of my direct experience. I feel especially indebted to Donald Kalsched, a Jungian whose description of our "inner self defence system" so beautifully compliments somatic practice.