I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with 15 years of experience in the mental health care industry. As the Founder and Clinical Director of Forward Mind Counselling, my team and I specialize in counselling services that assist youth and adults dealing with anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, motor vehicle accidents (ICBC), anger issues and addictions.

• Provide a range of mental health services to children, youth and their families, when the child or youth is suffering from serious emotional, psychological, behavioural or psychiatric illness. • Provide direct clinical services such as intake, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and crisis intervention for children, youth and their families.• Provide comprehensive assessment and treatment planning and conduct individual, group and family therapy.• Involved in community education, development, coordination and prevention/early intervention programs.• Build and maintain relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders in the community including families, physicians, schools, hospitals, transition houses and the RCMP Victim Services to ensure that the conflicts are resolved and appropriate outcomes are achieved.

• Draw from a variety of counselling approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, One Eye Integration and Emotion Focused Family Therapy in treating my clients who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, ADHD, anger issues and low self esteem. • Treat clients who struggle with pain for various reasons including being in a motor vehicle accident.

• Entering and retrieving information to and from RCMP computer systems (PRIME and PIRS) and detachment records• Providing factual information and assistance to a variety of contacts including Police Officers, Civilian Members and other professionals involved in police reports.

• Responsible for handling case loads of clients (children and adults)• Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients• Guide clients in the development of skills and strategies for dealing with their problems.• Prepare and maintain all required records and reports• Counsel clients and patients, individually and in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, and making changes• Co-facilitating Relationship Groups and Drug & Alcohol Groups for mandated clients on probation and non-mandated clients

• Completed the Crisis Line Training • Provided emotional support, referral information, and crisis intervention to a diverse population of callers in distress• Completing call reports after each call and detailing what the call was regarding, how we handled it, if we made any referrals

• Facilitating a youth group consisting of youth in grade 6 and 7 who are at risk of joining gangs• Went over topics pertaining to anger and how anger can be managed effectively for youth.• Organized recreation activities for youth in the gym including basketball, soccer and hockey• Provided conflict resolution between youth when required

• Managed occupational health and safety in the workplace • Provided counseling to individuals with mental health illnesses and behavioral challenges • Supervised staff and conducted performance review • Gained valuable experience in the administration of policy and regulations • Responsible for statistical data and monthly program reports • Organized and facilitated monthly staff meetings • Managed payroll and budgeting responsibilities

• Co-faciliated on the topic of Children Who Witness Abuse to a group of abusive men involved in domestic violence while their children were present.

• Worked at grassroots level with autistic youth involved in drug and alcohol use • Provided counseling to youth with behavioral challenges and addictions • Dealt with emotionally charged situations and handled several emerging emergencies. • Demonstrated excellent conflict resolutions skills • Documented crisis incident reports as needed

• Worked one to one with youth at risk as identified by Vancouver Police Officers and Youth Probation Officers• Organized recreation activities for youth in the community such as swimming and basketball.

• Co-facilitated Children Who Witness Abuse Training at the Justice Institute of BC