EDUCATION, TRAININGS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Formal Education

• Social Development Studies Undergraduate – University of Waterloo

• Bachelors of Social Work – University of Waterloo

• Masters of Social Work – Wilfred Laurier University

Continued Education – Therapy and Social Work Workshops and Trainings

• Trauma Informed Mindfulness and Pranayama Breath Work workshop (Infinite Oceans) 

• Ganja Yoga Sexuality Course (Ganja Yoga) 

• Trauma Informed Polyamory workshop (Clementine Morrigan)

• Embodying Polyvagal Theory training: Body-Oriented Learning and Exploration for Psychotherapists and Helping Professionals training (OASW)

• Bisexual Girls with Baggage workshop (Clementine Morrigan)

• Disorganized Attachment is a Fucking Trip workshop (Clementine Morrigan)

• Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model training (OASW)

• CBT and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) training (OASW)

• Frank Conversations: Polyamory and Non-Monogamy (Karada House)

• Playing with and Despite Guilt and Shame (Karada House)

• Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) Interventions & Strategies with LGBTQ2IA+ Clients (Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc.)

• Internal Family System Interventions and Strategies to Support LGTBQIA+ (Envision Counselling & Consulting, Inc.)

• Trauma and Kink (Karada House)

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Continued Education - Yoga

• Pranalife Yoga Teacher Training

• Ganja Yoga Teacher Training

• Trauma Informed Teacher Training

• Barre Teacher Training

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Reading

Trauma, Attachment & Mental Health:

• The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang

• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

• It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

• Love Without Emergency: I Want This but I Feel Like I'm Going to Die: Writings on Trauma, Attachment, and Polyamory by Clementine Morrigan

• Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari

• Trauma Magic by Clementine Morrigan

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

• The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams

• Principles and Techniques of Trauma-Centered Psychotherapy by David R. Johnson, Hadar Lubin

• So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience by Mark Henick

• Autism Partner Handbook: How to Love Someone on the Spectrum by Joe Biel, Faith G. Harper

• Love Without Emergency 2: I Want This but I Feel Like I'm Going to Die by Clementine Morrigan

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

• Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

• I Hate You - Don't Leave Me: Third Edition: Understand the Borderline Personality by Kreisman and Jerold J.  

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Polyvagal Theory:

• Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana

• Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and Autism by Stanley D. Rosenberg

• The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation by Deb Dana, Stephen W. Porges

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Sexuality & Queer & Kink:

• Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

• Fucking Crazy: On Complex Trauma, Surviving Sexual Violence, and Living My Best Slut Life by Clementine Morrigan

• Broken Toys: Submissives With Mental Illness and Neurological Dysfunction by Raven Kaldera, Del Tashlin

• Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber

• Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much by Jen Winston

• Fucking Girls by Clementine Morrigan

• I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

• Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships by Jillian Deri

• Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies by Michael J. Bader

• Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

• Rough Paradise by Alec Butler 

• It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese et al. 

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ENM:

• Polyamorous: Living and Loving More by Jenny Yuen

• The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt

• More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory by Franklin Veaux, Eve Rickert

• Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

• Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel 

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Addiction:

• From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle

• Sober Queers Do Exist by Clementine Morrigan

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Cults & Religion:​

• Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

• Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman

• Almost Feral by Gemma Hickey

• Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell