Jane Osborne, M.A., C.C.C.

  • Jane has provided individual counselling for over 25 years, combining traditional psychotherapy approaches, with a Danish psychotherapy model integrating mind/emotion/body learning.
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  • Her relationship counselling draws on systemic and narrative approaches as well as training in Gottman couples therapy.

  • Jane’s focus is to support clients in learning new skills to live satisfying and fulfilling lives, build core strengths and inner resources, and tailor counselling to the needs of​the individual or couple.                


Member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)

Education and Training: 

  • Masters in Counselling Psychology from UBC
  • Bodynamics Therapy (A body-based Developmental Psychotherapy System that integrates psychomotor development, cognitive and depth psychotherapy, brain research, and quality of contact and healthy relationship)
           Level 1 certification
                    Workshops:     
                     Depression & the Body-Mind
                     Shock Trauma: Opportunity for Growth
                     Love/Sexuality & the Body-mind 
                     Instincts, Emotions & Feelings
                     Psychological Development & Society 
                     Embodied Spirituality 
  • MOAIKU Therapy (Resource-oriented training for regulating trauma and states of high arousal)
           Hidden Choices: the Teenage Phase in Psychotherapeutic Process.    
           Authority andTrauma: Resource-Oriented Skill Training in Trauma Work

    
       Additional Workshops/Training taken:
  • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
  • Treating Stress and Trauma 
  • Neuroscience: Counselling & Coaching with the Body in Mind
  • Working with Aggressive and Violent Children and Youth with Gordon Neufeld
  • Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy 
  • Sand Play Therapy with Marie-Jose Dhaese
  • “Mindfulness Enhanced Strengthening Families Program” - Facilitator Training 
  • Level 1&2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy

Workshops presented:
  • Assertiveness Training, Decision Making, Stress Management, Care for the Caregiver
  • Facilitation of planning sessions with the Sunshine Coast School District Home Learners Program, involving parents, staff and students.
  • “Mindfulness Enhanced Strengthening Families Program” (part of Mind the Gap Project with SD46 Community Schools).  Co-facilitated sessions for parents and their middle school age children.

Parent, Roberts Creek Resident, yoga enthusiast
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