For those of you who love a list of credentials, here’s my education and training:
NuMethod Facilitation Level 1, Carmen Spagnola, Fall 2025
A Fat Lib Look at GLP-1 Weight Loss Medications: A Three-Part Series with ASDAH, Winter 2025
Neurodivergence, Feeding Differences and ARFID training with RDs for Neurodiversity, Winter 2025
San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training, Fall 2023
Certified Body Trust Provider training with the Centre for Body Trust, June 2022-June 2023
'Trauma' and Resistance: Innovative Responses to Oppression, Violence and Suffering with Vikki Reynolds, December 2023
Narrative Therapy Foundations Training Certificate with the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, June 2022
Working with Cultural Diversity in the Therapeutic Setting: Theoretical and Practical Applications two-part workshop presented by Dr. Myrna Lashley, November 2021
Master of Counselling Degree from City University, August 2021
Sexual Assault Response Team Support Worker training and volunteering with the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre, 2016-2022
Bachelor of Arts, English Drama Major/Theatre Minor, University of the Fraser Valley, June 2012
My lineage of learning:
It’s important to be to acknowledge the many people I have learned from, whether it be through reading their work, attending workshops, or been taught/mentored by them. Here are some of them.
Aubrey Gordon - author of What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat and You Just Need to Lose Weight, and co-host of podcast “Maintenance Phase”
Carmen Spagnola, the Numinous Network, somatic attachment
Center for Body Trust - Hilary Kinavey, Dana Sturtevant, Sirius Black
Christy Harrison - author of Anti-Diet and host of podcast Food Psych
Da’Shaun L. Harrison - author of Belly of the Beast
Desiree Adaway - The Adaway Group
Edge of the Couch Podcast - hosts Alison McCleary and Jordan Pickell
Dr. Jen Mullan of Decolonizing Therapy
Kai Cheng Thom - writer, performer, cultural worker, and speaker
KC Davis - author of How to Keep House While Drowning
Dr. Lisa Gunderson - One Love Consulting
Dr. Nicole Little - my wonderful supervisor
Resmaa Menakem - author of My Grandmother’s Hands
Sabrina Strings - author of Fearing the Black Body
Sonya Renee Taylor - founder and author of The Body is Not An Apology
Tricia Hersey - founder of The Nap Ministry and author of Rest is Resistance
Fat Liberation Consult Group - filled with some of the best people I'm fortunate enough to know!