 STUDY, EXPERIENCE & CONTINUING INQUIRYÂ
Some fields are not entered in order to master them, but to remain in relationship with the questions they carry.
My continuing studies move across scientific, embodied, contemplative, nature-based, experiential, and wisdom traditions.
They include psychoneuroimmunology, neuropsychology, neurobiology, noetic sciences, consciousness research, language, perception, sound, energy, and the relationships among brain, body, breath, nervous system, environment, and experience.
I also explore consciousness across waking, dreaming, sleep, meditation, threshold states, death, and expanded awareness. This includes lucid dreaming, Dream Yoga, Yoga Nidra, hypnagogia, night consciousness, transpersonal and out-of-body experiences, contemplative maps of transition, and the different ways science, lived experience, mythology, and wisdom traditions approach what is not yet fully understood.
Further areas of study include Tibetan Buddhist and Bön teachings on dream, sleep, bardo, death, dying, and transition; Taoist philosophy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tai Chi, Shaolin, Kundalini, Ayurveda, meditation, breath, and subtle-body practices; Japanese understandings including Ikigai, Keiko, Kokoro, and Kototama; and relationships among human beings, living environments, and the more-than-human world.
Though these fields arise from different contexts, they converge around enduring questions:
How does life move through body, mind, language, relationship, environment, consciousness, and form? How does experience become perception and identity? How does practice become embodiment? What becomes possible when life is encountered as movement rather than fixed form?
I approach these studies with curiosity, discernment, humility, and respect for the traditions, cultures, lineages, research, and lived experiences from which they emerge.
Different systems are not assumed to describe identical states, and no experience is reduced to a single interpretation. These areas of study are not presented as equivalent forms of training, professional qualification, or authority. Each is included for the distinct contribution it makes to my continuing inquiry and to the ways I listen, perceive, and participate.
The field remains open—to what I am studying now and to the knowledge, traditions, questions, and forms of intelligence I have not yet encountered.
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professional Designations, Certifications & Trainings
The following is an excerpt of designations, certifications, trainings and ongoing educations that I am involved in:
- Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)
- Certified Complex Trauma Professional _ Level Two (CCTP-II)
- Certified First Responder Counsellor (CFRC)
- Critical Incident Stress Management – (CCISM)Â
- Certified Early Intervention Field Traumatologist (CEIFT)
- Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
- Registered Clinical Supervisor (RCS)
- Master Therapeutic Counsellor (MTC)
- Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC)
- Master Neuro Affective Relational Model Therapist (NARM)
- Certified Clinical Applications of Neuroscience (CCATP)
- Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional (CIMHP)
- Certified Integrative Medicine & Nutrition for PTSD & Trauma (CIMNTT) – in progress
- Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP)
- Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional (CCFP)
- Certified Anger Management Treatment Professional (AMTP)
- Certified Attachment Mastery for Couples
- Certified Sex Offender Treatment Professional (SOTP)
- Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP)
- Certified Interpersonal Neurobiology Practitioner - in progress
- Intensive Trauma Stress Management Program
- Certified Family Trauma Professional (CFTP)
- Certified Child & Adolescent Trauma Professional (CATP)
- Certified Sexual Trauma Specialist – (CSTS)
- Certified Traumatologist (CT) – in progress
- Trauma Counselling & Competency Program
- Diploma in Transpersonal Counselling PsychologyÂ
- Diploma in Narrative Therapy
- Certified Association Executive (CAE)
- Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (Cl.Hyp)
- Advanced Rapid Transformational Therapist (ARTT)
- Certified Tantra Practitioner
- Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP)
- Certified Sex Therapist - Couples Â
- Certified Life Transitions SpecialistÂ
- Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
- Certified Master Coach (CMC)
- Certified Relationship Coach (CRC)
- Certified Grief & Bereavement Coach (CGBC)
- Certified in Deep Neural Repatterning (DNR)
- Certified Business Coach (CBC)
- Certified Executive Coach (CEC)
- Certified Group Coach (CGC)
- Certified Laser Coach (CLAC)
- Certified Life Coach (CLC)
- Magnetic Mind Coach
- Certified Spiritual Coach (CSC)
- Certified Stress Management Coach (CSMC)
- Change Management Practitioner (CCMP)
- Certified Life & Energy Healer
- Holistic Mental Health Specialist Certification - in progressÂ
- Lifestyle Medicine Certification - in progress
- Food as Medicine Certification - in progress
- Functional Nutrition Certification - in progress
professional training, embodied practice & continuing study
The following is a selected overview of the professional approaches, therapeutic modalities, embodied practices, and wisdom traditions in which I have completed training, received certification, or continue to study.
Each is included according to the place it holds within my learning and practice; they are not presented as equivalent forms of training, qualification, or authority.
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamics Psychotherapy
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) & Trauma Focused ACT
- Advanced Strategies for End of Life Care
- AST Model of Shame in Trauma Recovery
- Attachment Trauma Mastery
- Blue TherapyÂ
- Brainspotting
- MAiD -Medical Assistance in Dying
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) for Trauma, Substance Abuse & Addictions
- The Developmental Needs Meaning Strategy (DNMS)
- Deep Neural Repatterning (DNR)
- DisasterTrauma & Field Traumatology
- NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
- EMDR
- Energy Psychology
- First Responder Health - Emergency Worker Trauma & Firefighter Culture & Trauma
- Flash TechniqueÂ
- Focusing
- Forest TherapyÂ
- Gestalt Therapy
- Hakomi
- Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy
- Integrated Medicine & Nutrition for PTSD
- Internal Conflict Resolution
- Internal Family Systems Theory (IFS)
- Interpersonal Neurobiology & Traumatic Transference
- Ikigai - Pathway to PurposeÂ
- Kinesiology
- Keiko - Devotional Practice as way of  Being
- Kokoro - Heart, Mind, Spirit CoherenceÂ
- Kototama - Soul of Sound & Word
- Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training -Level 1 - in progress
- Line of Duty Death
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
- Neuro Cognitive Intelligence (in progress)
- Neurocopsychology
- Neurofeedback: Rewiring the Brain
- Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
- Neuroscience for Trauma, Anxiety & Stress
- Nutritional Neuroscience
- Polyvagal Theory & Informed Therapy
- Psychodrama
- Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
- Reiki Levels 1 & 2
- Relational Frame Theory in Experiential Practice
- Sensorimotor Psychology
- Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing)
- Sleep & Mental Health
- Somatic Experiencing (SE)
- Somatic Trauma Therapy
- Sound TherapyÂ
- Threat Assessment & Response - NACTATR
- Traditional Chinese Medicine (in progress)
- Trauma Focused Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (T-CBT)
- Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
- Trauma Sensitive Yoga
- Victimology
Katalyst Within is a layered body of work exploring conscious evolution, living intelligence and what becomes possible when we participate more fully in life. Moving through body, mind, consciousness, relationship, transition, completion and becoming, its guided experiences and self-directed courses invite greater presence, discernment, responsibility and the embodiment of what is true. There is no single entrance or fixed destination. Each offering is a doorway into the life becoming available to be lived.
