I am passionate about counselling. I have been in the industry for more than 20 years and I love helping people realize their full potential and reach for the stars.
Below you will find a list of my education, licenses and memberships and other trainings I have completed.
If you have any further questions, please email me at helpinghands.89 [at] yahoo.com
Education:
M.A. in Counselling Services 1993 – 1995
RIDER UNIVERSITY, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA www.rider.edu
B.Sc. in Psychology 1986 – 1990
ASSUMPTION COLLEGE, Manila, Philippines www.assumption.edu.ph
Certificate in Community Mental Health
DOUGLAS COLLEGE, New Westminster, BC, Canada, www.douglascollege.ca
Substance Use Certificate
JUSTICE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, New Westminster BC, Canada www.jibc.ca
Grief and Loss Certificate Level 1
Living Through Loss Counselling Society of BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Licenses & Memberships:
- Canadian Certified Counsellor (Certification No. 7466)
- Philippine Licensed Guidance Counsellor (Registration No. 000009),
- Member, Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA), Ottawa, ON
- Member, NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, Alexandria, VA, USA
Trainings:
- The IFS Clinician’s Guide: Restoring Self, Healing Trauma, and Deepening Therapy – Dr. Frank Anderson and Dr. Diane Poole Heller (2025)
- The Master Series 2024 -Immersion with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (University of Oxford)
- The Master Series 2023 Virtual Conference (University of Oxford)
- Solution-Focused Therapy 2021 (Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy)
- General Psychiatric Management for BPD 2020 (Harvard Medical School)
- Naloxone Training – 2018 (Vancouver Coastal Health)
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention – 2018 (BC Housing)
- Emergency First Aid/CPR – 2018
- Mental Health First Aid – 2016
- Core Addictions Practice – 2014
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