Books, Personal Essays, Short Memoir, & Book Reviews
Book Review: Skipping Seasons, Changing Hemispheres, BC BookWorld, 2018
Book Review: The Book that Changed Your Life: Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, The Georgia Straight, 2018
Book Review: The Suitcase & The Jar, The Ormsby Review, 2018
What is Forgiveness? Discuss, The Globe & Mail, 2017
Writing Letters to My Dad’s Killer Helped me find Peace, New York Post, 2017
Why I Reached Out to My Father’s Murderer, (excerpt), VICE, 2017
Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017
Book Review: Ignite (poetry), Matrix Magazine, 2016
My Father’s Killer has been Granted Parole and I am Relieved, The Globe & Mail, 2016
Waiting to be Heard, Understorey, 2016
At the Helm, 48 North Sailing, 2015
Then He Would Know, emerge, 2014
Unanticipated Outcomes, Community Justice Initiatives, 2014
Preparing for a Lesser Known Journey, The Place We’ve Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35, 2013
Appliance Envy, The Tyee, 2013
Your Momster Personality, PinkMomBlueMom, 2012
Books, Professional Essays, Columns, & Book Reviews
Child & Youth Care in the Field: A Practicum Guidebook, Canadian Scholars Press (forthcoming, 2020)
Extended Book Review: Narrative Approaches to Youth Work, Relational Child & Youth Care Practice, 31-3, 2018
Socially Just, Culturally Responsive Practitioners, The Canoe: Journeys of Indigeneity, 2016
Indigenous Education, Canadian School Counsellor/Colleges & Institutes Canada, 2015
Pathways & Possibilities, Canadian School Counsellor/Colleges & Institutes Canada, 2015
Unconventional Programs, Canadian School Counsellor/Colleges & Institutes Canada, 2015
High Demand Careers, Canadian School Counsellor/Colleges & Institutes Canada, 2015
Being Atypical in a Typical World, Insights into Clinical Counselling, 2014
On the Bookshelf: Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth, Canadian School Counsellor, Summer 2014
School Absenteesim, Canadian School Counsellor, Spring 2014
Feedback Informed Treatment, Perspectives, 2013
Theories for Change, Canadian School Counsellor, 2012
Steps of Change, Guru, 2012
Counsellor’s Corner: Deliberate Practice: Thinking, Acting, and Reflecting, Canadian School Counsellor, 2012
Feedback Informed Treatment, Cognica, 2012
Letters for Therapeutic Closing, Insights into Clinical Counselling, 2010
Miscellaneous Opinions
Letter to the Editor, Vancouver Sun, January 26, 2019
Be an Ally, Not a Bystander, Rant/Rave, Westender, April 14, 2016
It’s Cold in Canada, Rant/Rave, Westender, June 12, 2014
Don’t put the Blame on the Women, Rant/Rave, Westender, March 28, 2013
Google the Answer to this Question, Rant/Rave, Westender, November 27, 2012
She’ll Drink to That, Rant/Rave, Westender, November 11, 2010
Bridge to Who-Knows-Where? Rant/Rave, Westender, August 26, 2010
Does not “Like,” Rant/Rave, Westender, August 19, 2010
Rules of the Offroad, Rant/Rave, Westender, August 12, 2010
Academic Autoethnographic Research Articles
Constructing a Life after Death: Writing my Younger Experiences of Grief and Loss, Unpublished Masters Thesis, University of Victoria, 2008
Nominated: BC Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal
Nominated: University of Victoria Martlet Graduate Scholarship for Women
Shortlisted: BC Pacific Leaders Fellowship
Recognitions: NOVA New & Notable Qualitative Research Articles
Writing Ourselves Into Being: Writing as Spiritual Self-Care for Adolescent Girls, Part Two, International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, 2005
Writing Ourselves Into Being: Writing as Spiritual Self-Care for Adolescent Girls, Part One, International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, 2005
Research & practice specialties shared at Conferences, BC Post Secondary Institutions & Government Agencies:
International Conference on Children’s Spirituality
North American Conference on Children’s Spirituality
Child & Youth Care in Action, Making Tomorrow: Healthy Body, Mind, & Spirit
University of Victoria School of Child and Youth Care
University of Victoria Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies
Douglas College Child, Family & Community Studies
Capilano College/University Early Childhood Care & Education
Ministry of Children & Family Development, Child & Youth Mental Health