BIO              Expressive Art Therapy              Visual Artist             Workshops            Forest Bathing Club           CV           Contact
Education
2025/Fall   Climate Psychology Certificate, California Institute of Integral                                Studies

2022/25
Expressive Arts Therapist, (Candidate) Create Institute, Toronto

2022     Certified Nature & Forest Therapy Guide, Association of Nature and
               Forest Therapy, California

2021     Foundations of Applied Mindfulness Meditation Certificate, University
               of Toronto

2021     French Proficiency Certificate, Chang School, Ryerson University

2018    MFA, Masters with Merit, Masters in Communication and Culture,                        Yeats Graduate School, Ryerson University

2016     BFA, Bachelors of Fine Art with Honours, Photography, School of                        Image Arts, Ryerson University

2015     Art Photo Program, Erasmus Program, University of South Wales, UK


Professional development
2024     Decolonizing Therapy With Dr. Jennifer Mullan: A Workshop on 
                Healing the Colonial Soul Wound", Jennifer Mullan, PsyD; (12/7/24)                
                (5hrs)  CIIS Public Programs

2024 Work That Reconnects: “The Expanded Spiral As A Tool of Liberation”, Mutima 
            Imani and Shayontoni Rhea Ghosh (5/18/2024) (1 hr)

2024 Work That Reconnects: “Hospicing Modernity” with Vanessa De Oliveira 
            Andreotti (26/10/2024) (2 hrs)

2022    Developmental Trauma and Transformation, (13 hrs), University of 
                Toronto
Bursaries
2020    Toronto Artscape Launchpad Bursary, Artscape Daniels Launchpad

2014     Roloff Beny Foundation, Ryerson University 5,000

2013     Ike Morgulis First Year Proficiency Award, Ryerson University 250


Installations / Performance Work
2023
   “In Honour of All Beings”, Good Mourning Festival, Evergreen Brick
               Works, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024   Colour and Form Society’s 72nd Annual Open Juried Exhibition,                           Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery

2024   Tradition Transformed, Annual Juried Exhibition  OMAH, Orillia,              

2024   Journeys at Youngplace, Youngplace Toronto

2024
   RENEWAL, Annual Spring Juried Exhibition, Melt Studio + Gallery,
                Prince Edward County

2023
   Colour Splash!, 149th Annual Juried Exhibition , John B. Aird Gallery,
               Toronto

2021    VAM's 43rd Annual Juried Show of Fine Arts , Visual Arts Mississauga 
            (VAM) at Riverwood

2020    Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed, 
               OMAH, Orillia

2020    Exposed 2020, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG), Oshawa 
           
2018     Re-Locating the Canadian North, MLC Research Centre, Toronto

2016     Maximum Exposure, graduation show, TMU, Toronto

2016     SNAP! 2016 Silent Auction, Andrew Richard Designs, Toronto

2015     Full Frame, Toronto Metrolpolitan University, Toronto

2015     TROGLODYTE EXHIBITION, Riverfront, South Wales, United Kingdom

2015     Third Year Show, Toronto Metrolpolitan University, Toronto

2015     First Edition, Ryerson Art Space, Toronto

2015     SNAP! 2015 Silent Auction, Andrew Richard Designs, Toronto

2014     Salon Show, Toronto Metrolpolitan University

2014     Moving On, Elgin and Winter Garden Theater, Toronto

2013     Salon Show, Toronto Metrolpolitan University

Curation
2018     Re-Locating the Canadian North, MLC Research Centre, Toronto

Public Collections
Special Collections, Ryerson University Library, Toronto, ON

School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON

Film
2021    Art Production / PA, DRMTLGY Commercial shoot Media One, Toronto

2020   Cinematographer, Dear-God “BUCK” music video, Dine Alone Records
              (Toronto), Terrible Records (Los Angeles)

2020    Art Director, Cinematographer, Dear-God “New Kid” music video, 
               Dine Alone Records (Toronto), Terrible Records (Los Angeles)



Work Experience

Expressive Arts


2024 - Present    Expressive Arts Therapist (in training), Create Clinic, Toronto 
  • Population ranges from late teens to mid-50s

2023 - Present    Expressive Arts Therapist (in training),  Margaret’s Housing and Community 
                                Support,Toronto. Multiple locations: 
  • 31 Broadview and 17 Winchester - population is women in transitional housing
  • 323 Dundas East Homeless Drop-In Centre
  • Private residence with bedbound client

2024        Expressive Arts Facilitator, “Toronto Floods Grief Gathering”, for the staff of 
                   Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto

2023       Expressive Arts Therapist (in training) Purple Carrots Drama Studio, Toronto 
  • (Special Needs Youth + Adults)

2023        Expressive Arts Educator and Facilitator, “Be Here Now Workshop”  
                  McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Klienburg



Arts and Nature Related Work

2023        Creator, Writer, and Voice of “The Stories We Tell Ourselves” Audio Tour,  TD Bank,                        Ignite Series at Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto


2022        Guest Faculty, Pilot Certificate Program “Developmental Trauma and
                  Transformation”, Course 6 - Visions of Gaia, University of Toronto

2019 – 2020
   Front Desk Consultant, Toronto Image Works

2018
        Guest Photo/Art Teacher, The York School, Toronto (ages 8-10)



Nature & Forest Therapy

2024 - Present       Group Therapy Facilitator, Climate Anxiety Collective, Toronto

2024 - Present       Corporate Walks, Turner Fleischer
 
2024 - Present       “Monthly Members Gathering”,  Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto

2023 - Present        “Intro to Forest Bathing”, McMichael  Canadian Art Collection, Kleinberg

2023 - Present       “Intro to Forest Bathing”, Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto

2024                          Public Walk,  Canada Lands Company, Downsview Park

2023                          Corporate Walk, Royal Bank of Canada               


Media
2024            Forest Bathing and Wellness Interview for CBC Radio’s The Current With Matt 
                      Galloway - aired Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 CLICK HERE FOR LINK

Conferences
2024        Evergreen Conference 2024, “Growing Integrated Community”, Toronto

2016
      “Canadian Identity and The National Gallery of Canada: An Althusserian
                        Analysis
,”   Underhill Graduate Colloquium, Revealing the Past – Carleton
                        University

2017           Canadian Identity and The National Gallery of Canada: An Althusserian        
                       Analysis
,”
Intersections|Cross-sections Graduate ConferenceTMU  
                   
The Implications of the True North Strong and Free Mentality International
                        Conference on Cultural Studies and Education – University of British Colombia


Publications
2023            “The Stories We Tell Ourselves” Audio Tour, TD Bank Ignite Series, Toronto

2018              
“A/r/tography as a Method of Awe: An A/r/tographic Inquiry of the Canadian    
                       North”
Library and Archives Canada, Ryerson University Library and Archives

2017               “A Letter to the Students at Etobicoke School of the Arts”, PINK& GREEN, 1st
                       edition, Toronto Art Book Fair 2017


Awards
2013 – 2016    Dean's List, Ryerson University, Toronto

2015     First Edition Photo Book Award, Ryerson University, Toronto

2012     Valedictorian, Mayfield S.S., Caledon


Scholarships
2016 – 2017    Academic Scholarship, Ryerson University 12,000





Amália/Emily - “I am grateful to be able to live and work in Tkaronto. I  recognize this land to be the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat. I acknowledge that Tkaronto is covered by Treaty 13 and that while I am on this land I must know and live the Dish With One Spoon Wampum agreements to honour all beings that live in this land.