Credentials and Training

Formal Cedentials

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    Master of Counselling Degree

    City University of Seattle 2020

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    Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology

    Thompson Rivers University 2016

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    Community Support Work Certificate

    Yukon College 2008

Post Graduate (2019-Current)

  • Indigenous Clinical Counsellor - Douglas College

  • Clinical Counsellor and Clinic Owner - Chantelle Sands Therapy (formerly Fireweed Healing)

  • Trauma and Diversity Course Instructor - Justice Institute of British Columbia

  • Clinical Counsellor - Lu’ma Medical Centre Society

  • Educator/Instructor - Family and Community Counselling Program - Native Education College

  • Intern Counsellor - Ciel Community Counselling

Work Experience

Pre Graduate (2009-2019)

  • Community Mental Health Worker - Robins Pharmacy

  • ESL Teacher - Give a Heart to Africa

  • Youth Treatment/Recovery Worker - Mental Wellness and Substance Use Services

  • Child and Youth Government Care Worker - Residential Youth Treatment Services

  • Adult Inpatient Treatment Attendant - Alcohol and Drug Services

  • Summer/Day Camp Counsellor - Child and Adolescent Therapeutic Services

  • Recreation Coordinator - Skookum Jim Friendship Centre

  • Youth Employment Assistant - Skookum Jim Friendship Centre

  • Administrative Assistant - Alcohol and Drug Services

  • Youth Shelter Attendant - Alcohol and Drug Services

  • Intern Teacher Assistant - Individual Learning Centre & Kwanlin Dunn House of Learning

Additional Trainings and Seminars

2025

  • MBARI: Art Bodies and Care at the End of the World - Bayo Akomolafe, Therapy Wisdom

  • Decolonizing Attachment Theory - Linda Thai, Therapy Wisdom

  • Decolonize Your Mind - Dra Rosales Meza

  • The Healing Power of Truth | Confronting Colonial Propaganda - Dra Rosales Meza

  • Reclaiming the Sacred | Decolonizing to Remember - Dra Rosales Meza

  • Fundamentals of Trauma Recovery - Level 1 Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice

  • Promising Practices for working with Sex Workers: Living in Community’s Approach to Effective service Delivery - Living in Community

  • Curriculum for Change: make space for new opportunities and perspectives in regard to sex workers’ safety and acceptance in society  - Living in Community

2024

  • Leaning into Liberatory Practice Summit - Reflecting on Justice

  • Fundamentals of Psilocybin Assisted Psychotherapy Didactic Training - TheraPsil

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Training (EMDR) Basic Training + Special Populations

  • New Dimensions of Trauma Healing: Energy, Neuroscience and Spirituality - Therapy Wisdom

  • Aboriginal Narrative Practice Course - Dulwich Centre Foundation

2023

  • Queering Mental Health Conference 2023 - Our Landing Place

  • Ethical Right Relationship in Psychedelic Therapy - Ethics 101

  • Ethical Right Relationship In Psychedelic Therapy - Ethics 102

  • Peer Consultation Groups: Supporting Ethical alternates in Community -  Ethics 103

  • Microdosing Psilocybin and LSD: What we know so far - Psychedelic Support

2022

  • Riding the Wave: Principles of Psychedelic Harm Reduction - Psychedelic Support

  • Psychedelic Psychotherapy Forum

  • Exploring Psychedelics: Discovery, Research, and Effects - Psychedelic Support

  • Queering Mental Health Conference 2022 - Our Landing Place

  • Intro - Gender Diversity - Transcare BC

  • Trans Rights Toolkit - Trans Care BC 

2021

  • San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training-  San’yas Anti-Racism Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Program

  • Vikki Reynolds - Justice Doing in Private/Alternative Practice - Narrative Therapy Centre of Toronto

  • What is Narrative Practice - Dulwich Centre Foundation

  • Group Facilitation Training - Grief and Loss Support - Living Through Loss Counselling of BC

  • Introductory Motivational Interviewing for Helping Professionals - Change Talk Associates

2017

  • Mental Health First Aid Facilitator Training  - Mental Health Commission of Canada

2016

  • Allen Wade - Response Based Practice - Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society

  • Risking Connection - Traumatic Stress Institute

2015

  • Trauma Informed Practice Training- Mental Wellness and Substance Use Services 

  • Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Training - Crisis Prevention Institute

2014

  • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) - LivingWorks (2014)

2008

  • Gabor Matê - Trauma and Addiction - YTG Alcohol and Drug Services (2008)

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