Credentials and Training

Formal Cedentials

Queering Mental Health Conference 2023 - Our Landing Place (2023)
Queering Mental Health Conference 2022 - Our Landing Place (2022)
Intro - Gender Diversity - Transcare BC (2022)
Trans Rights Toolkit - Trans Care BC (2022)
Queering Mental Health Conference 2021 - Our Landing Place (2021)

Promising Practices for working with Sex Workers: Living in Community’s Approach to Effective service Delivery - Living in Community (2025)
Curriculum for Change: make space for new opportunities and perspectives in regard to sex workers’ safety and acceptance in society - Living in Community (2025)
Leaning into Liberatory Practice Summit - Reflecting on Justice (2024)
San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training- San’yas Anti-Racism Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Program (2021)
Vikki Reynolds - Justice Doing in Private/Alternative Practice - Narrative Therapy Centre of Toronto (2021)

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Training (EMDR) Basic Training + Special Populations (2024)
New Dimensions of Trauma Healing: Energy, Neuroscience and Spirituality - Therapy Wisdom (2024)
Risking Connection - Traumatic Stress Institute (2016)
Allen Wade - Response Based Practice - Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society (2016)
Trauma Informed Practice Training- Mental Wellness and Substance Use Services (2015)
Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Training - Crisis Prevention Institute (2015)
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) - LivingWorks (2014)
Gabor Matê - Trauma and Addiction - YTG Alcohol and Drug Services (2008)

Fundamentals of Psilocybin Assisted Psychotherapy Didactic Training - TheraPsil (2024)
Ethical Right Relationship in Psychedelic Therapy - Ethics 101 (2023)
Ethical Right Relationship In Psychedelic Therapy - Ethics 102 (2023)
Peer Consultation Groups: Supporting Ethical alternates in Community - Ethics 103 - (2023)
Microdosing Psilocybin and LSD: What we know so far - Psychedelic Support (2023)
Riding the Wave: Principles of Psychedelic Harm Reduction - Psychedelic Support (2022)
Psychedelic Psychotherapy Forum (2022)
Exploring Psychedelics: Discovery, Research, and Effects - Psychedelic Support (2022)

Feminisms, Intersectionality and Narrative Practice - Dulwich Centre Foundation (pending)
Aboriginal Narrative Practice Course - Dulwich Centre Foundation (2024)
What is Narrative Practice - Dulwich Centre Foundation (2021)

Group Facilitation Training - Grief and Loss Support - Living Through Loss Counselling of BC (2021)
Introductory Motivational Interviewing for Helping Professionals - Change Talk Associates (2021)
Mental Health First Aid Facilitator Training - Mental Health Commission of Canada (2017)

Work Experience

Clinical Counsellor and Clinic Owner - Chantelle Sands Therapy (formerly Fireweed Healing)
Trauma and Diversity Course Instructor - Justice Institute of British Columbia
Clinical Counsellor - Lu’ma Medical Centre Society
Educator/Instructor - Family and Community Counselling Program - Native Education College
Intern Counsellor - Ciel Community Counselling

Community Mental Health Worker - Robins Pharmacy
ESL Teacher - Give a Heart to Africa
Youth Treatment/Recovery Worker - Mental Wellness and Substance Use Services
Child and Youth Government Care Worker - Residential Youth Treatment Services
Adult Inpatient Treatment Attendant - Alcohol and Drug Services
Summer/Day Camp Counsellor - Child and Adolescent Therapeutic Services
Recreation Coordinator - Skookum Jim Friendship Centre
Youth Employment Assistant - Skookum Jim Friendship Centre
Administrative Assistant - Alcohol and Drug Services
Youth Shelter Attendant - Alcohol and Drug Services
Intern Teacher Assistant - Individual Learning Centre & Kwanlin Dunn House of Learning