Crystal Tierney

Training & Education in Psychotherapy

Continued Education: 

  • Coming soon 2025: EMDR Training: Integrating EMDR into your Clinical Practice, 5-Day Intensive 
  • 2024: Foundations of Clinical Supervision at Ottawa 
  • 2024: Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
  • 2021: 300h Trauma-Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga Certification 
  • 2021: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation: A Polyvagal Theory of a Guided Approach to Therapy with Deb Dana
  • 2020: Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma with Angel Yuen
  • 2020: Internal Family Systems (IFS): Treating Complex or Relational Trauma with Frank Anderson
  • 2019: Seminar on Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing With David Treleaven

Formal Education: 

  • 2020: MA Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University
  • 2017: BSc Neuroscience and Mental Health at Carleton University

Program Evaluation Education, Skills, and Projects

Education:

Training:

  • CES-NCC Annual Learning Event; Mastering Triangulation, Mastering Facilitation, Incorporating Lenses into Evaluation (2024)
  • Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus)(2023) 
  • Introduction to NVIVO in thematic analysis (2022)

Project:

  • Development of an Engagement Strategy for Understanding Gender-Based Violence Prevention in Disaster Management For the Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action For the Government of Prince Edward Island w/ PRA, conducted a jurisdictional scan to support triangulation of evidence (2024) 
  • Developed and conducted a needs assessment of the client's primary healthcare needs for CMHA Ottawa including thematic analysis of qualitative data collected via focus groups, triangulated with quantitative biographical data (2023)
  • Research and Evaluation of the Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) program at Children's Well-Being Lab at uOttawa, work includes qualitative research, thematic analysis, coding using NVIVO (2022 - Ongoing)
  • Evaluation of The Walk-in Counselling Clinic, data collection by self-report questionnaires, followed by data transcription and cleaning(2021)

Trauma Informed Workshops Presented by Crystal

  • Community Workshop: Trauma-Informed Workspaces for the Youth Infringement Festival (2024) 
  • Yoga & Trauma: Introduction to the Nervous System and Polyvagal Theory for Warrior Yoga (2021)
  • Yoga & Trauma: Understanding Trauma and PTSD for Warrior Yoga (2021)