SELECTED TRAINING

Assessment

• Two-day workshop on diagnosis and treatment, Otto Kernberg, MD, World Council for Psychotherapy Conference, Vienna, Austria
• Outcome Research for Social Work, Judith Globerman, Ph.D., Vancouver, BC
• Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy, Scott Miller, Vancouver, BC

Approaches to Psychotherapy

• Two-weeks, Intensives I & II in Narrative Therapy, Michael White, Adelaide, Australia
• Two two-day workshops, Scaffolding Conversations, Ninetta Tavano, Vancouver, BC
• Two-day Mapping Narrative Conversations, Michael White, Richmond, BC
• Four-day Therapeutic Conversations Conferences--6, 7 8, 9, 10, 11--David Epston et al, Vancouver, BC
• Two-day Narrative and Solution-focused Therapies, William O'Hanlon, PhD, VA
• Four-day International Conference on Narrative and Cooperative Approaches to Therapy, Michael White, Steve de Shazer, Insoo Berg, William O'Hanlon, Reston, VA
• Two-day Global Reach of Brief Therapy, Steve de Shazer, et al., Mt. View, CA
• Three-day Brief Therapy Intensive, Paul Watzlawick et al, M.R.I.,Palo Alto, CA.
• Two-year training program [as experiential group], Gestalt Institute, Boone, NC
• Conference, Association for Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, New Orleans, LA
• Two-day workshop, Shame, Realization, and Restitution in Restorative Justice, 13 hrs., Alan Jenkins, Yaletown Family Centre, Vancouver, BC
• One-day training, Joining Cognitive-Behavioural and Psycho-dynamic Approaches to Personality Disorders,” Dr. Drew Westen, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

Trauma

• Sexual Trauma and Healing, Mark Schwartz, Masters & Johnson, Charlotte, NC
• Trauma, Dissociation & Attachment, 14 hrs., Trauma Treatment Assoc., Vancouver, BC

Addictions

• Eleventh Substance Abuse State of the Art Conference, Kill Devil Hills, NC
• 4-day workshop, Gambling Addiction, Vancouver, BC
• Course, Substance Abuse Counseling, Community College, Sanford, NC
• Substance Abuse Protocol, Referral and Assessment Issues, Raleigh, NC
• Two-day workshop, Addiction: The Family Disease, OPC NC, Chapel Hill, NC

Couple and Family Therapy:

• Graduate-level courses: in Individual Therapy, Couples Therapy, Family Therapy, and Advanced Family Therapy, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
• “The Good Marriage” & “Beyond Divorce," J. Wallerstein, PhD., Chapel Hill, NC
• Two-day workshop, Treating Violence against Women, Maggie Carey, Vancouver, BC
• Two-year Intensive in Family Therapy, videoperson, Satir Institute, Chapel Hill, NC

Group Psychotherapy

• Group certification course & three four-day group trainings with David Hawkins, MD & Bernard Kempler, PhD, Atlanta Group Psychotherapy Conferences
• Two courses [as intensive group], Advanced Group Therapy, Boone, NC
• One and 2-day workshops on group treatment, Walker Shields, MD, Mary Goulding, John Gladfelter, et al., American Group Psychotherapy Association, San Francisco, CA
• Two 5-day group trainings in Gestalt Therapy, Jack Mulgrew, PhD, Appalachian State U., NC
• Group workshops, "Healing and Destructive Forces in Groups" & "Resonance and Dissonance in Groups," Carolinas Group Psychotherapy Society, Chapel Hill, NC
• "Flexibly Bound Group Model for Persons with SPMI," Walter Stone, Durham, NC
• Three-day group training, Gestalt Institute of Georgia, S. Imes, Dahlonega, GA.
• Two Group Therapy workshops, Canadian Group Psychotherapy Conference, Vancouver, BC

Anxiety, trauma, sexual compulsivity:

• Two-day Mood & Anxiety Disorders Conference, Riverview Hospital, Port Coquitlam, BC
• Two-day conference, Trauma, Dissociation and Attachment, Vancouver, B.C.
• Two-day workshop, Trauma and Sexual Compulsivity, Masters & Johnson, Charlotte, NC
• "Receiving and Responding to Stories of trauma and social suffering", 5 hours, Therapeutic Conversations IX Conference, Vancouver, B.C.
• "Working with Interrupted or Lost Storylines," 5 hours,TC IX Conference, Vancouver, B.C.