Formal Education:
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Masters of Science in Behavioral Health; Loma Linda University, Loma Linda California
Bachelors of Arts (Psychology); University of Montana

Continuing Education:
 Substance Use Disorders Summit (2024); Mental Health Academy 
Family Violence Across the Lifespan Training (2024)
Pet Loss and Bereavement Counselling (2023); Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
Internal Family Systems for Couples (2022;2021); Internal Family Systems Counselling Association
Internal Family Systems (2020, 2021,2022); Internal Family Systems Counselling Association
Counselling Ethics; Perfecting Relational Informed Consent and Writing Succinct Therapy Notes (2022,2019); Dawn Psychological Services.
Counselling Millennials/Young Adults in the Digital Age (2018) Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association,.
Highlights of Ethical Best Practices: Consent and Documentation Issues by Dawn Mcbride, (2018) Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.
Relational Life Therapy Level one (2017); Relational Life Institute.
Psychological Trauma, PTSD and Healing in Military and Veteran Populations (2016) Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.
Association for Advanced Training for the Behavioral Sciences (2014), American Psychological Association.
Compassion Fatigue: Our Trauma & Theirs (2014) Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level One (2013)
Mastering Solution Focused Brief Therapy; (2011); Rocky Mountain Brief Therapy Institute

Professional Clinical Development/ Conference Attendance:
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association Virtual Annual Conference, May 2021
1st Global Conference on Friendships: Inclusive Interdisciplinary Perspective
 March 2020, Prague, Czech Republic .
Psychotherapy Networker Symposium: The courage to connect (2017), Washington, DC. 
Alberta Family Works Conference (2015) Red Deer, AB.