Education and Credentials

The complete record of what I hold, where it came from, and what it does and does not qualify me to do.

Currently in training

Master of Psychotherapy and Spirituality (MPS), Counselling stream — St. Stephen's College, University of Alberta. May 2025 to a tentative graduation in 2028.

A 600-hour supervised counselling practicum (PPSYC 5870) is scheduled for July 2027 to June 2028 in Metro Vancouver. I am working toward registration as a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCPA) and a Registered Clinical Counsellor (BCACC) after graduation.

Until that degree is complete and registration follows, I am a Student Counsellor in Training. I am not a psychotherapist, a registered clinical counsellor, or a Canadian Certified Counsellor, and nothing on this site should be read as offering therapy.

Education

  • Master of Psychotherapy and Spirituality (Counselling stream) — St. Stephen's College, University of Alberta, 2025–present
  • Applied Psychology Professional Certificate — Trinity Western University, 2025. PSYC 215 Lifespan Development and PSYC 305 Abnormal Psychology, completed while working full time in a dispensary
  • Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy — University of Alberta, 2006–2010
  • Pre-Pharmacy, Chemistry and Biology — Medicine Hat College, 2004–2006. President's Honour Roll

Professional licensure

  • Registered Pharmacist (RPh) — College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, Full Pharmacist class, in good standing
  • Minor Ailments Full Prescriptive Authority — British Columbia
  • Injection Certification — British Columbia

Psychedelic-assisted therapy training

  • ATMA Academy — Introduction to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, 2022
  • Fluence — Psychedelic Psychopharmacology, 15.00 CE, 2022
  • MAPS Canada — School of Psychedelics, 2023
  • Chacruna Institute — Roots of Psychedelic Therapy: Shamanism, Ritual and Traditional Uses of Sacred Plants, 26 hours, 2023
  • Healer.com — clinical cannabis education

Safety, crisis and cultural certification

  • Suicide Prevention, Risk Assessment and Management (SPRAM) — Recovery Alberta, 2025
  • First Aid and CPR/AED Level C — Canadian Red Cross, valid to 2028
  • Police Information Check with Vulnerable Sector Search — RCMP, August 2026
  • Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility and Anti-Racism — British Columbia continuing education

Professional memberships

  • Psychedelic Pharmacists Association — member since August 2022
  • International Society of Cannabis Pharmacists — member since July 2021. Attended the Society's inaugural Clinical Cannabinoid Pharmacy Conference in August 2020, as an attendee
  • Companionship of the Sacred Vine — Honorary Lifetime Member, 2023
  • Vancouver Psychedelic Society — member

Volunteering

  • MAPS Canada — Special Access Program Community of Practice and Tip Sheet Working Group
  • Psychedelic Association of Canada — a supporter since December 2021, when it was still the Canadian Psychedelic Association, and a research-team volunteer since November 2022
  • TheraPsil Psilocybin Coalition — former volunteer

What this does not mean

None of the training above is a licence to practise psychotherapy, and I do not claim it as one. The psychedelic certificates are education, not credentials to treat. The pharmacy registration is real and current, and it governs pharmacy practice only.

Education, not medical advice.