Therapist/Consultant/Facilitator
Independent Community Practice
Sidney, BC, Canada
Rochelle Sharpe Lohrasbe, PhD, RCC, is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (BCACC #2131) in independent community practise, who holds an MA in Learning and Development and a PhD in Child and Youth Care. Rochelle began her career in forensic psychiatric nursing and emergency nursing, and she now has more than 30 years of clinical experience in the areas of post-traumatic stress, adverse experience and developmental wounding. In her independent community clinical practice in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Rochelle works with both children and adults who have endured abuse, neglect, and other traumatic and adverse experiences. She is an EMDRIA-approved consultant in EMDR therapy-- contributing to the ISSTD project to develop a dissociation sensitive EMDR curriculum. Rochelle's curiosity has kept her an engaged learner herself and resulted in several certifications including in Neuroptimal Neurofeedback, clinical hypnosis, and Havening Techniques.
As an avid learner, always curious to learn new ways to help clients, Rochelle shares this knowledge in her roles as consultant, supervisor and educator/facilitator. Rochelle is an active community member with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She is a member of the SPI curriculum development team and promotes the growth of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy at local and global levels. Rochelle presents regularly at ISSTD conferences and workshops internationally, where she provides clinical education for psychotherapists on trauma and dissociation, now as a Fellow of the ISSTD. Her recent work includes local professional newsletter contributions, book reviews in peer-reviewed journals, treatment guidelines, and publications on the integration of EMDR and SP/Somatic Psychology, as well as “Somatic Resources: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Approach to Stabilising Arousal in Child and Family Treatment” (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 2017) which she co-authored with Pat Ogden.
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM US Eastern Time