Individual Counseling & Psychotherapy Trainings:

 

Somatically-Focused Therapies:

• Somatic Healing Practitioner Certification, accredited by the Yoga Alliance and IAYT. Training in a range of trauma-informed somatic healing practices including breath-work, movement practices, and other somatic healing techniques. Online training, 2023.

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Experiential Group Work & Community Healing:

Couples Counseling & Family Systems Trainings:

Emotionally Focused Therapies (EFT/EFIT/EFFT):

• Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Attachment Trauma, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Grief, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to Transform Couple Relationships. Online trainings, 2023.​

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Mediation/Conflict Resolution:

• Mediation Training with NorthWest Mediation Center learning the art, craft, science, and ethics of facilitating peaceful conflict resolution, including conflict theory, convening skills, neutrality, ethics, agreements, mediation and the law. ​Online training, 2023

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Family & Systemic Constellations Therapy:

• Practitioner Certification in Family and Systemic Constellations Therapy with Family Constellations NYC. Training included in-depth learning of classic Family & Constellation work after Bert Hellinger and extended Constellation work after Dr. Peter Orban. Online training, 2022 - 2023.​

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Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS):

• Multiple courses with the Internal Family Systems Institute including Foundations of the IFS Model, IFS Treatment for Freedom from Trauma, Early Adversity, IFS & Anxiety, Depression, and Shame, and Healing Cultural Trauma with IFS. Online trainings, 2019 - 2021.

 

Non-Medical Hospice Training:

• In-home non-medical hospice training with the Hospice of SLO County, San Luis Obispo, CA. In-person training, 2019. 

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Song Therapy/Lament work:

• Certificate in Song Therapy Training with the Song Therapy Network, Somerset, UK. Online training, 2020 - 2021.​

• One-on-one training and mentorship with Tuomas Rounakari, lament teacher and long term student of and co-teacher with, Pirkko Fihlman, also known as the Grand Mother of Lament Singing in Finland. In-person training, 2019.

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Nonviolence Studies​:

• Certificate Program in Nonviolence Studies with the Metta Center for Nonviolence, Petaluma, CA. Online training, 2018

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Focusing and Inner Relationship Focusing:

• Facilitator Level I and II Focusing Training with The International Focusing Institute with core teachers Eugene Gendlin, founder of the Focusing method, and Ann Weiser Cornell. Online training, 2014. 

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Restorative Circles:

• Restorative Circles facilitation with Cat Gilliam and John Cunningham in Portland, OR. In-person training, 2014

• Restorative Circles facilitation with Christine King (NVC Santa Cruz) in Santa Cruz, CA. In-person training, 2013.

• Restorative Circles facilitation with Dominic Barter, founder of the Restorative Circle Process, Ashland, OR. In-person training, 2014. 

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The Work That Reconnects:

• The Work That Reconnects facilitation training with Joanna Macy (founder) and Anne Symens-Bucher at The Mercy Center, Burlinghame, CA. In-person training, 2013. ​

• The Work That Reconnects multiple workshops with various WTR trained facilitators, UK and USA. In-person trainings, 2010 - 2015.

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Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT):

• Certified Accredited EFT International Practitioner Training, Level 1, Level 2, Advanced Level 3, and Integrated Energy Techniques with EFT Masters Emma Roberts and Sue Beer of The EFT Centre, London, UK. In-person training, 2011.

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Matrix Re-Imprinting:

• Matrix Re-imprinting Practitioner Training with Karl Dawson, founder of Matrix Re-imprinting and EFT Master, Brighton, UK. In-person training, 2011.

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Nonviolent Communication (NVC):

• International Intensive Training (IIT), 9-day residential training with The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) with Marshall Rosenberg, founder of NVC, and other CNVC Certified Trainers, Albuquerque, New Mexico. In-person training, 2011. ​​

• Multiple trainings in Nonviolent Communication with multiple certified NVC trainers, including Anna Finlayson, Daren De Witt, (NVC Resolutions), London, UK, and Christine King (NVC Santa Cruz), Santa Cruz, USA. In-person trainings, 2009 - 2014.

• Ongoing mentorship with certified NVC trainer, Anna Finlayson. In-person and remotely, 2010 - ongoing.

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Cognitive Hypnotherapy:

• Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma (HPD) in Cognitive Hypnotherapy, an assimilative and psychodynamic therapy, with the Quest Institute, covering a host of modalities including Ericksonian Hypnosis, Time Line Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy, Evolutionary Psychology, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), with the Quest Institute, London, UK. Accredited by the NCH and externally verified by the NCFE. In-person training, 2010 - 2012.

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Neuro-Linguistic Programming:

• Master Practitioner Training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) with the Quest Institute, London, UK. In-person training, 2010.

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General Workshop Facilitation:

• The Facilitator Development Program with Chris Johnstone and Jenny Mackewn, 10-month transformative group facilitation training and eco-facilitation including nature-based experiential group processes, Family and Systemic Constellations Therapy workshops (family/organization/ eco-constellations), and Joanna Macy's The Work That Reconnects, Bath, UK. In-person training, 2010.

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Buddhist Studies & Training:

• Committed Dharma Practitioners’ Programme (CDDP), two-year advanced course in Buddhist philosophy, ethics, and practice. This course provided an integrated approach to the study and practice of the Dharma, and was taught by multiple international Insight meditation teachers including John Peacock, Stephen Batchelor, Christina Feldman, and Akincano M Weber at Gaia House, Newton Abbott, UK. In-person training, 2009 - 2011.​

• Multiple Buddhist retreats in the Insight (Vipassana) tradition at Gaia House, and Sharpham Trust, Devon, UK. In-person, 2009 - 2011.​

• 10-day Vipassana Meditation course (S.N. Goenka tradition) at Dhamma Dipa, Herefordshire, UK. In-person training, 2010.

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Awakening the Dreamer:

• Awakening the Dreamer Symposium Facilitator/Leadership training with the Pachamama Alliance, York, UK. In-person training, 2010​​.

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Transition Town Facilitation:​

• Transition Town Facilitator Training with The Transition Network, London, UK. In-person training, 2010.

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Voice Dialogue:

• Voice Dialogue Facilitator Training parts I, II & III, with John Kent (Voice Dialogue UK), London, UK. In-person training, 2008.

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Shamanic Practice:

• Shamanic Practitioner training including ancestral connection, shamanic journeying, and indigenous wisdom traditions with medical anthropologist Dr. Natalie Tobert, academic and field-researcher of Indian, African, First Nations Native American and Aboriginal Australian understandings and perspectives, Richmond-upon-Thames, UK. In-person training, 2005.

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Other influences:

Modalities and perspectives that I have studied at depth but have no formal training in include: Somatic Experiencing (SE), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), Coherence Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Family Systems Therapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Jungian Archetypal Psychology, Psychedelic Therapy, Consciousness Studies, and various Indigenous Wisdom Traditions.​

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Disclaimer/Liability:

I am not a licensed psychologist, therapist, or health care practitioner, and my services do not replace the care of licensed psychologists, therapists or healthcare professionals. I do not assess, diagnose, prescribe for or treat any physical or mental ailments or conditions. All information, resources, and therapeutic support offered during our work together are intended to help and guide you to the very best of my ability and are intended solely as a complement to (and not a replacement for) therapeutic services provided by licensed health care practitioners. In certain cases I may refer you to another qualified professional. Please use your discernment and conduct due diligence before implementing any plan or practice suggested or recommended to you during our therapeutic work together. You agree that, except in the case of gross negligence or malpractice, you or your representative(s) will fully release and hold me harmless from and against any and all claims or liability of any kind or nature arising out of or in connection with our work together.