OPEN MIND PSYCHOLOGY

I earned my doctorate from Adler University in Vancouver, BC. During my graduate training, I mostly worked in in-patient hospital and correctional settings. After graduation, I completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the DBT Centre of Vancouver. Following my postdoctoral fellowship, I worked at the DBT Centre of Vancouver providing comprehensive Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), including individual therapy and facilitating DBT Skills Groups. While at the DBT Centre of Vancouver, I started a Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO DBT) program. As Manager of the RO DBT program, I provided educational information about RO DBT to clinicians within and outside of the DBT Centre, participated in an RO DBT consultation group, assessed clients for disorders of overcontrol, provided individual RO DBT, and facilitated RO DBT skills classes. I have training in CBT, DBT, RO DBT, and ACT.

I have experience treating clients with emotion dysregulation, interpersonal issues, depression, anxiety, insomnia, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and difficulties associated with an overcontrolled coping style. I have a particular interest in treating adults with trauma, complex problems and personality disorders, and perfectionism and disorders of overcontrol.