I have worked with children, youth and families, providing counselling services to them, for over 25 years.  My clients have been from a variety of cultural backgrounds and I have worked extensively with First Nation children and their families through community schools, here in Saskatoon.

I specialize in working with troubled children, youth and their parents.  In particular, my work has centered around the areas of divorce and separation, anxiety, depression, anger management, grief and parenting skills.  The approach I use is primarily Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative Therapy.  Using these approaches, I hope to assist clients to reframe and rewrite “their stories”, thereby improving their quality of life.

Areas of Interest:
- Child and teen counselling and assessment
- Group therapy
- Single parent issues
- Families coping with separation and divorce
- Family therapy
- Parenting skill development

Training Upgrades & Certificates:
2009/2010
- Anxiety in Children & Adolescents - 2009

2008 & Previous
- Family Therapy Institute Basic
- Adlerian Psychology Basic
- Reality Therapy (16 hours)
- Certified Parent Educator with Adlerian Society
- Certificate in Addictions
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy (Levels 1 and 2)
- Level I CISD
- EMDR – Level 1, 2005
- Scared Stiff – Adult Anxiety Issues, 2008
- Attachment Disorder Workshop, Dr. David Burns, 2007
- Gottman’s Marriage Therapy Workshop, 2007

Professional Experience:
- School Psychologist since 1976
- Counsellor with Professional Psychologists & Counsellors since 1997

Augmented Experience:
- Member of the Saskatoon Chamber Singers
- Past Board Member of Sunstar Day Home
- Member of Sierra Club
- Member of Saskatoon Nature Society