I am an approved clinical supervisor (ACS) with the BCACC. As the Assistant Clinical Director at Alongside You, I supervise intern counsellors throughout their masters practicums, and I also supervise many RCC’s throughout their careers. My style of supervision leans heavily on Person of the Therapist (POTT) work, along with case consultation.

Through POTT work, I support supervisees to examine themselves and any blind spots that may be coming into their therapy practices. Us counsellors are all human and therefore have our own histories and lives outside of therapy that influence who we are in sessions with our clients. I strongly believe that it is equally important that we are looking inward at ourselves, as well as outward toward our clients in order to facilitate meaningful, authentic therapeutic relationships. In this way, I guide my supervisees to explore who they are in relation to their clients and in relation to the context in which they are doing therapy.

In addition to the POTT work, I am trained in EMDR, IFS, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, DBT and EFT and I can therefore offer supervision from these frameworks. I am a certified EMDR therapist and am able to provide EMDR consultation which can be used toward certification with EMDRIA. I also have significant specialized training is treating trauma-related conditions, including complex-PTSD and dissociative disorders, and can offer supervision on these often complex cases.

My overall goal as a supervisor is to help my supervisees reach the full expression of who they are as unique therapists. I really enjoy this work, it’s a great privilege to be trusted with my supervisees’ processes.

I am a certified EMDR therapist with EMDRIA as well as a Consultant in Training (CIT). I am therefore able to provide 15 of the required 20 hours of consultation toward EMDR certification. I offer both individual and group consultation, both of. which are required by EMDRIA for certification. If you have questions about the route to certification please feel free to reach out to me. As a CIT, I also regularly receive consultation of consultation through my own EMDR consultant which helps me to ensure I am providing the highest quality of consultation.

I have been using EMDR in my practice for several years and have completed many advanced trainings, particularly in the area of dissociative disorders. As such, I’m able to provide consultation for the standard EMDR protocol, as well as more advanced cases of complex-PTSD and dissociative disorders.