Lurline Raposo

About Lurline

I have a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology. I am a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, an Approved Clinical Supervisor, a Parenting Coordinator and a trauma and family 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.

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