Works with

Adults

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Often Supports

Trauma · Anxiety · Overwhelm · Burnout 

 

Approach

Somatic Experiencing · EMDR · Art therapy ​

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Sometimes you understand why you react the way you do — but understanding it hasn’t been enough to change what happens in the moment.

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You might replay a conversation long after it’s over. Feel responsible for how everyone else is doing. Know you need a boundary but feel guilty setting it. Stay alert for what might go wrong even when there isn’t an obvious reason to. Push yourself until you’re exhausted. Or notice that experiences from years ago are still shaping how you respond today.

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I work with adults who are finding that experiences from the past are still shaping how they feel, respond and move through life now — through anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, feeling constantly on alert or shut down, or reactions that seem to happen before you have time to think.

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Therapy doesn’t have to mean retelling everything that happened or trying to think your way out of a response that feels automatic. We can slow things down and work with what is happening in the present — noticing patterns, emotions, relationships, and the ways your body responds when something feels threatening, overwhelming or familiar.

 

This is where healing beyond words alone becomes part of the work. Sometimes talking helps us make sense of what has happened. Other times, we may work with what you notice in your body, use imagery or creative expression, or draw on approaches that help shift responses that words and insight alone haven’t been able to change.

 

​The aim is not simply to understand why a pattern exists. It is to help create enough space and safety that the old response no longer takes over.

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Training & Credentials

Master of Education in Counselling · Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) · Registered Canadian Art Therapist (RCAT) · Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) · Canadian Certified Supervisor (CCS) · Registered Canadian Art Therapist-Supervisor (RCAT-S) · EMDR · Flash Technique · Focusing 

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Clinical Supervision & Consultation

I also provide clinical supervision and consultation for counsellors, psychotherapists and art therapists. As a Canadian Certified Supervisor (CCS) and Registered Canadian Art Therapist-Supervisor (RCAT-S), I support new clinicians as they develop their therapeutic work, think through complex cases, deepen trauma-informed practice and thoughtfully integrate different approaches.

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Interested in clinical supervision and consultation with Dana? Reach out care@valleyarttherapy.com

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Outside the therapy room

When I’m not working, I’m usually reading, spending time with my family, or enjoying the views at home on our Black Angus cattle ranch.