In practice since 1996, I have discovered the incredible resilience with which people heal themselves. We are indeed, "fearfully and wonderfully made". As a marriage and family therapist I enter the therapeutic relationship from a systemic perspective, believing that it is in relationship we are formed, learn both healthy and unhealthy patterns of interaction, and come to believe certain things about ourselves, some of which prove harmful. By discovering healthy patterns of communicating, learning to trust in our own ability to change and make healthy decisions, and understanding how old messages may have shaped undeserved beliefs about ourselves, we can learn to be confident in our choices for a better life.

Areas of Interest:
- Family Systems impact on individuals, couples, and families.
- Grief Therapy
- Dealing with life from a Christian point of view

Training Upgrades & Certificates:
2009/2010
- Reflections on Sibling Relationships
- Using Clinical Intuition in MFT
- Systemic Treatment of Trauma
- Pure At Heart: A Man's Guide to Purity in a Sexualized World
- "The Box and the Circle: Three Generations of Residential School Trauma" SKAMF Conference, Sept, 2009

2008 & Previous
- Dynamics of Addiction: Individual, Couple, and Family Treatment July 23-26

Professional Experience:
- Counselling since 1996: Private Practice, Employee and Family Assistance Affiliate Provider with PPC, Shepell/FGI, Family Services, Health Canada, and the Saskatchewan Public Service Commission
- Counselling inmates – both provincially and federally, since 1996
- Trauma debriefings and defusing since 1998

Clinical Fellow with AAMFT

Certified Counsellor

Favorite Book:
"The Gifts of the Child Christ" by George MacDonald

Favorite Quote:
"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

What I like most about my job:
Seeing people discover their healing potential.