Guest: Maureen McEvoy, MA, RCC

This week we spoke with Maureen McEvoy about “re-enactments”:

Many, many years ago, Maureen was a volunteer with a sexual assault centre in Ontario.  Intrigued by that experience, she changed careers, going back to school to earn her degree in Counselling Psychology. Since then she has worked with many survivors of trauma – both historical and recent. She works with individuals, couples and groups.

She is a long-standing instructor with the Justice Institute of BC, teaching  other counsellors skills for working with complex trauma.

She provides clinical consultations to a number of counsellors and agencies. She has written several articles, including one co-authored with Maggie Ziegler on counter-transference in trauma groups. She also wrote “Balancing conflicting Interest:  A Counsellor’s Guide to the Legal Process, 3rd Edition”.

A believer in life-long learning, Maureen has continually updated her knowledge and skills through both individual and couples therapy approaches. Consequently, Maureen draws on a broad knowledge base - from recent advances in brain development to approaches that include  Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DMNS) and art therapy  to assist deep healing work with individual clients, including those with complex trauma and  dissociation.

She does extensive work with couples where one or both of the partners is a trauma survivor, either recent or historical. She has taken many trainings to develop skills in couples work, including Imago Relationship Therapy, the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), The Developmental Model and, most recently, Stan Takin’s Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT).

She is a certified Imago Relationship therapist (Advanced Clinician) and Clinical Consultant.  Along with her business partner Tamara Adilman, Maureen also presents Imago-based Getting the Love You Want weekend workshops for couples. You can find out more about her work with couples by visiting www.ImagoVancouver.com.