Dear visitor,
As you can read below, I have been studying and teaching therapy for more than fifteen years and I believe in body-centered approach to helping people heal from traumas of accidents, wars and betrayals as well as developmental traumas of childhood neglect, invalidation, poverty, oppression and abuse. I discovered the effectiveness of body-centered approach in my own therapy and I have studied many modalities of somatic psychotherapies since 2001. My PhD dissertation is about embodiment as discovered in the course of body-centered psychotherapy.
Before focusing mainly on my private practice, I worked in Adolescent Psychiatry as a social worker, family and individual therapist, as a Counselling Program coordinator and Instructor in Vancouver Community College, and as a group, individual, and family therapist in the Looking Glass, provincial residential recovery resource for young people suffering from Eating Disorders. I want to highlight that I continue to teach an awesome, cutting edge course in family therapy (and human development), which I thoroughly enjoy. As you can see from my choices, I was always interested in health and mind and wanting to understand what it means and how we develop as people. Therefore, my approach to therapy is developmental, which means that I consider missing developmental experiences as a possible core of personal suffering or reason for a particular issues that will not go away. Often, these developmental issues show up in patterns of feeling and thinking and such symptoms as anxiety, depression, OCD, addictions, complicated grief, Eating Disorders, and family and couple’s conflicts.
My PhD course work (UBC) focused on human development and clinical issues, and my dissertation is in the area of body-centered psychotherapies.