Credentials
Traci is a an experienced and accredited clinical therapist, counsellor and supervisor. Her private therapy practice serves couples, families and indivdiuals across the Greater Victoria area. And she has strong connections among local health care professionals, and deep roots in our mental health care community.
Traci holds a Master's Degree in Applied Behavioural Sciences (Systems Counselling) from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington (1995). Also, she has a Bachelor's Degree in Child and Youth Care from the University of Victoria (1990).
She maintains standing as a clinical member of these professional associations:
- Registered Clinical Counsellor-Approved Clinical Supervisor, RCC-ACS #1406, BC Association of Clinical Counsellors, BCACC
- Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, RMFT #2017227, Canadian Association for Couple and Family Therapy, CACFT
- Certified Canadian Counsellor, CCC #11247463,Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, CCPA
Her post-graduate coursework, training and experience include:
- Emotionally-Focussed Therapy (EFT)
Traci is a Certified EFT Therapist for couples (EFCT) through the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focussed Therapy (ICEEFT)
- Perinatal Mental Health Therapy
Traci is certified by Postpartum Support International (PSI) as a Perinatal Mental Health Therapist (PMH-C #126699) - EMDR
Advanced training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) for the treatment of trauma, depression, anxiety and other emotional and behavioural issues; Member of EMDR Canada and the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)
Traci started her career in 1988 as a Child and Youth Care Worker in Victoria on an in-patient psychiatric ward at Jack Ledger House (Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Health). In 1992, she began counselling at-risk youth and adolescents and their families in the local high school system. From 1994 until 2006, she was a clinician on a multi-disciplinary child and youth mental health team in Victoria. This team provides services to children, youth and their families on behalf of the British Columbia's Ministry of Children and Family Development.
For more than 15 years, Traci has run a busy private practice, originally from a home office in Saanich and since 2023, from her downtown Victoria space at the Centre for Therapy & Counselling.
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