Lurline Raposo

About Lurline

I have been practicing for almost two decades as a Registered Clinical Counsellor. I am a Registered Play Therapist and a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, an Approved Clinical Supervisor, a Parenting Coordinator, a Master ART Practitioner for trauma and an experienced family/ couples therapist. I offer contracted clinical supervision services to individual counsellors, interns and organizations. I am comfortable working with couples, parents, adolescents, children and families. I have advanced training in trauma-informed interventions including a designated as a Master Practitioner in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). I have a diploma in Family Mediation and formalized training as a Parenting Coordinator that includes Mediation/ Arbitration training. I have been formally trained as a Parenting Capacity Assessor in Alberta and in BC and have historically written many Views of the Child reports (Full Section 211) and Hear the Child reports in BC although I no longer write these now.

At this point in my career, I am primarily looking to support the following issues for all clients of all ages:

Parenting and Coparenting challenges
Family conflict and estrangement
Trauma Resolution and Developmental Trauma
Abuse with specific experience supporting sexual abuse/ assault
Anxiety, stress, panic and phobias
Separation/ divorce adjustment (including blended families)
Attachment difficulties
Couples issues including Affair Recovery and Discernment Counselling

I work in the following therapy models:

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)
Attachment-Focused Family Therapy (AFFT)
Neuroscience-based Sand tray Therapies (NSST)
Gottman Couples Therapy
Emotion-focused Couples Therapy (EFT)
Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR)
Neurobiological Attachment
Neuroscience in Sandtray
Various Other Play Therapy Models, Tools and Interventions