My Professional Experiences & Training

I'm a registered psychotherapist (RP) with over 15 years of professional practice.

I provided psychotherapy for several years in youth mental health agencies, including a provincial residential youth treatment program in BC and a youth day treatment program in Toronto. I now work in private practice. While I now offer mainly “talk” therapy, my background is in music therapy. I completed my Bachelor of Music Therapy at Capilano University and my Master of Music Therapy at Wilfrid Laurier Univeristy. I'm a clinical member of the Ontario Society of Registered Psychotherapists. While I don’t practice music therapy anymore, my background in it for sure influences my playful, arts-inclusive and out-of-the-box ways of working as a therapist.

Professional Trainings Completed

In addition to the following, I regularly attend shorter trainings that range from 60min to single-day in length.

Third-Wave Behavioural Modalities

DBT

  • Certificate in DBT, 86 hours (with Shelley McMain, University of Toronto);

  • Advanced Case Conceptualization in DBT, 29.5 hours (with Shari Manning, Treatment Implementation Collaborative);

  • Antiracism in DBT, 12 hours (with Faria Kamal & Marcus Rodriguez)

  • DBT with Adolescents and Their Families, 31 hours (Broadview Psychology);

ACT

  • ACT Essentials, 7.5 hours (with Joe Oliver, Contextual Consulting);

  • ACT Next Steps, 6 hours (with Joe Oliver & Kristy Potter):

  • ACT Intermediate Skills, 6 hours (with Elizabeth Baker & Ray Owen);

Ethics

  • Counselling Ethics #1: Session Notes, 8 hours (with Dawn McBride)

  • Counselling Ethics #2: Informed Consent, 8 hours (with Dawn McBride)

  • Advanced Counselling Ethics: Risk & Safety in Consent and Charting (with Dawn McBride)

Liberatory Practice

  • Decolonial Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Ethical Insights from Palestine, 8 hours (with Samah Jabr)

Dissociation-Centred Trainings

Ego State Therapy

  • Ego State Therapy Foundations, Level 1, 20 hours (with Wendy Lemke)

Clinical Hypnosis

  • Clinical Hypnosis Levels 1, 20 hours (with Wendy Lemke)

  • Clinical Hypnosis Level 2, 20 hours (with Wendy Lemke)

EMDR

  • EMDR Therapy Basic Training, 81 hours (with International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation);

  • Overview of Established Modifications of EMDR Therapy for Dissociative Disorders, 3 hours (with International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation);

  • What You May Not Have Learned in EMDR Therapy Basic Training: Treating: Treating Non-realization, Non-personification, and Non-presentification, 4 hours (with Kathleen Martin, ISSTD).

Case Conceptualization

  • Conceptualization & Treatment of Dissociation, 12 hours (with Dolores Mosquera & Natalia Seijo)

Somatic Strategies

  • Somatic Embodiment & Regulation Strategies, 12 hours (Linda Thai, Collectively Rooted)

Narrative Therapy

  • Narrative Therapy Certificate, 30 hours (Hincks-Dellcrest Institute);

  • Over 100 additional hours in workshops and supervision in Narrative Therapy (Narrative Therapy Centre).

Trans Health

  • Foundations of Trans-Positive Counselling, 6 hours (Rainbow Health Ontario);

Trauma (without a Dissociation Focus)

  • Level 1 Trauma Counselling Certificate, 40 hours (with Natalie Zlodre, Hincks-Dellcrest Institute);

Regular Clinical Consulting

While I am licensed for independent practice of psychotherapy by the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), I choose to engage in several hours per month of clinical consultation or supervision with other registered health professionals who practice psychotherapy, and also some consultations as-needed with front-line harm reduction / shelter workers. I think this is really important for maintaining responsible, ethical and skillful practice. I engage in the following regular clinical consultations:

  • I meet approximately biweekly ( every 2 weeks) for 90min with a peer team of fellow DBT psychotherapists in private practice;

  • I attend a 90min open peer consultation in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) about twice a month;

  • I meet monthly for 50min with a peer RSW consultant committed to politicized behavioural practice;

  • I meet monthly for 50min with a senior RSW consultant with expertise in DBT and BPD;

  • I meet monthly for dyadic supervision with a psychologist with expertise in ACT.

Alejandra Lindan, MMT, RP (they/them)

Registered Psychotherapist #001976

alejandra@lindan.ca