About Elizabeth
I became a Chartered Psychologist in Alberta in 1982. I started by working for the Family Service Association of Edmonton (now the Family Centre) where I received excellent training in marriage counselling and family systems. For several years I maintained my clinical membership in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. I also trained in Bioenergetic Analysis for five years, and in 1993 and 1994 took Beginner and Advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Since 1982, I have taken professional development training in a variety of other areas as well. Some examples are: couples counseling, family counseling, kids and divorce, blending families, brief therapy, stress management, working with dreams, goal setting, incest and sexual abuse, understanding dissociative disorders, and understanding addictions. My most recent and ongoing training is in Self Regulation Therapy (SRT) , which uses the latest advances in neuroscience research to decrease psychological distress in mind and body. I left Family Service to start a private practice in St. Albert where I was living at the time. In 1998 we moved to Vancouver for five years, which was a great place for the challenging midlife transitions my husband and I were both experiencing. Now we are back in Edmonton and I am once more in private practice. I am also author of the popular column Life Experience, published in eighteen weekly newspapers in Canada. Life has provided me with some powerful experiences, which are very useful in working with clients. Divorced in 1981 and remarried in 1989, I had the joy and challenge, with my husband, of blending a family of five children, all but one in their teens! We have all thrived and now my husband and I are at the next stage, the "sandwich generation" where we have increased responsibility for our parents and the great pleasure of grandchildren.
This combination of real life experience, formal training, and many years of therapy practice gives me breadth and depth as a therapist. |
