Continuing Education
2025 Advanced Training in IFS: Nuance and Attunement with Stephanie Mitchell
2024 Somatic Experiencing, Beginning 1 with Glyndie Nickerson
2024 Unburdening your Exiles with Dick Schwartz; retreat in Molok’ai, HI
2024 Unattached Burdens & Guides in IFS Therapy with Robert Falconer
2024 Consultation Group with Robert Falconer
2023 Externalizing Parts Through Drawing, Multiplicity of the Mind Training Institute
2022 Nonviolent Communication with Leah Boyd & Clarity Services
2022 EMDR 5-Day Intensive through EMDR Consulting
2022 Brainspotting with Tracy Gantlin-Monroy
2021 Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner
2021 IFS, Level Three, Richard C. Schwartz & Alexia Rothman
2021 Therapeutic Art Life Coach Certification, Udemy Learning
2021 IFS; Negotiating Relationships with Richard C. Schwartz & Sarah B. Stewart
2020 IFS, Level Two, Deepening & Expanding with Pamela Krause and Jim Andralis
2020 Brianspotting with Katherine Allen
2019 IFS, Level Two, Deepening & Expanding with Kay Gardner & Katelyn Staecker
2019 IFS; Inspired Coaching; Aligning the Inner System, Online course
2018 IFS, Level One, Introduction to IFS with Kay Gardner & Mona Barbera
2018 IFS; Kripalu Program with Richard C. Schwartz & Sarah B. Stewart
2017 Education Technician III, The State of Maine, #91886
2017 IFS; IFS & Meditation with Dick Schwartz & Loch Kelly, Online course
2017 Safety Care, High Severity One & Two, Margaret Murphy Center for Children
IFS Program Assistant for Level 1 & Level 2 Trainings
2021-Present:
I assist the Lead and Assistant Trainers in running the trainings and teach the model to participants within the small group practice sessions. I also lead home and practice groups in training while demonstrating the model within those groups, assisting participants in understanding, and implementing the model, while working with an awesome team to create and ensure safety, confidentiality, and community. Trainings I worked at so far:
#676 – 2021, #657 – 2021, # - 2023, #959 - 2024
Formal Education
2022 MS - University of Southern Maine; Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Portland, ME
2013 MFA - Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1992 BFA - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1990 AAS - Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA