My long term professional goal is to become a school counsellor and

eventually an educational psychologist with Yukon Education.

The following goals and planned activities will be used to help me
achieve this career aspiration.
Professional Goals
1. Obtain a Bachelor
of Education
degree through
the Yukon College
2. Read psychology
related material
for pleasure and
personal
development

3. Create a self care

routine

4.

Increase my
community

Planned Activities
Application to the program
to be completed in April
2016, including acquisition
of references of required
paperwork.

Aim to read three to five

books per year, titles to
start with are: The Gift of
Therapy (Irvin Yalom), The
Body Keeps Score (Bessel
Van Der Kolk), The New
People Making (Virginia
Satir), Trauma and
Recovery (Judith Herman),
Rising Strong (Brene
Brown), Brainstorm (Daniel
Siegel), Authentic
Happiness (Martin
Seligman), Tapping In
(Laurel Parnell)
Complete a journal entry
about each book
Increase my strength and
flexibility through physical
activity four to five times
per week (yoga, fitness
classes, weight training,
running, and cycling)
Reduce my screentime
when with my children by
turning off my phone for at
least one hour every day
Talk on the phone with
family members in BC at
least twice per week
Go outside my children for
at least 30 minute 2-3
times per week during the
cold seasons, camp for at
least four nights per month
in the warmer months
Run for School Council at
cole Whitehorse

Projected Timeline
Application Due: April
2016
Program Start:
September 2016
Program End: April
2018
Starting May 2016 and
ongoing

May 2016- ongoing

September 2016 to
ongoing

engagement
through
volunteerism

Elementary School
Become a board member
for a non-profit
organization in
Whitehorse with First
Nations initiatives
Volunteer with Yukon
Distress and Support Line
(two evenings per month)
5. Increase my skill
Complete the 10 hour
set with training in
online module for Trauma
trauma focussed
Focussed CBT through the
CBT and positive
Medical University of South
psychology
Carolina
https://tfcbt.musc.edu/
Complete The Science of
Happiness
(https://www.edx.org/cours
e/science-happiness-ucberkeleyx-gg101x-2)
Attend the Evolution of
Psychotherapy Conference
in Anaheim (December
2017)
6. Begin teaching
Apply to work as a
with Yukon
substitute teacher
Education
Apply on all postings in
Whitehorse that I am
qualified for
7. Register as a
Submit required paperwork
Provisional
to CAP
Psychologist with
CAP
8. Write the
Complete the review
Examination for
course and obtain study
Professional
materials, then develop a
Practice in
study schedule, including
Psychology (EPPP)
practice EPPP tests, then
register for and write EPPP
9. Increase my play
Complete Level I (10 days
therapy skills
of training) for the Play
Therapy Certificate with
the Canadian Association
for Child and Play
Therapist.
Level II to be completed
after CAP registration
10.Complete my
Register for EMDR Basic
EMDR training with
Training: Parts 1 & 2
Laurel Parnell
Transforming Trauma with

Between December
2017 and December
2018

May 2018

September 2018

September 2018January 2019

June-August 2019

September 2019- June

2020

11.Complete
Expressive Arts
Therapy Training
with Cathy
Malchiodi
12.Complete the
requirements to
become a
Registered
Psychologist with
CAP

EMDR (7 days) and attend

an event in California
Attend the 3 day TraumaInformed Expressive Arts
Therapy Level One
Obtain a placement as a
provisional psychologist
with an appropriate
supervisor and complete
the required supervised
hours and write Oral Ethics
Exam

July 2020- May 2021

September 2018September 2021