Professional Standing and Continuing Education


Wendy has professional standing with the following art and play therapy organizations:

ATR Registered Art Therapist
    June 1992 - Present
    American Art Therapy Association  (link)

CPT Certified Play Therapist
    July 1994 - Present
    Canadian Association of Play Therapy (link)

OATR Registered Art Therapist
    November 1992 - present
    Ontario Art Therapy Association (link)

RCAT Registered Art Therapist
    April 2017 - Present
    Canadian Art Therapy Association (link)


Wendy's continuing education has included the following topics:
  • Adoption issues Issues that can occur in interracial adoptions
  • Attachment, reactive attachment disorder and Theraplay
  • Therapy with special needs children, F.A.S.D. and Tourette's
  • Particular needs of the parents and siblings of special needs children
  • Sensory needs
  • Different learning styles for special needs children
  • Struggles with transitions
  • Severe feeding issues in failure to survive children
  • Several courses about attachment needs in children from Gordon Neufeld
  • Attachment in adopted children
  • Specialized training to work with perpetrators of sexual abuse
  • Helping clients cope with and process life losses related to sexual, physical and emotional abuse

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