Tania Suzuki
Biopsychosocial Therapy
About me
My Training
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I am an experienced health professional, with a multidisciplinary background. ​I have been working with body techniques since 1993 and the clients who remained with me the most were the ones in pain. I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Canada and a Psychologist in Brazil.
My training includes:
IFS Institute - Internal Family Systems - Richard Schwartz
IFS Online Circle -- Apr-Sept/2022
IFS Stepping Stones- IFS Canada - Jan- Apr/2022
Somatic intervention - Ricki Bernstein
Working with Grief and Loss somatically - 2021
Part 3- The Lost Piece: Reclaiming the Body after Abuse 2020
Part 2 - Attachment Wounds, Then and Now - 2020
Part 1- The Missing Piece: The Body in the Therapy Room 2020
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AEDP Institute
Level 3 completed in 2021
Transforming Resistance - Steve Shapiro - 10 months - 2021/2022
Advanced Skills - Fine-tuning AEDP Experiential Interventions in interpersonal and Intrapsychic Contexts: Growing your AEDP Edges as You Help Your Client’s Grow Theirs course with Benjamin Lipton - Oct 2021
Advanced Skills- The Therapist as Organizing Other: Regulating and building self-structure in dysregulated clients through an AEDP lens - Jen Edlin - Apr 2021
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Advanced Skills: Memory Reconsolidating at Work Across States in AEDP: Portrayals and Metaprocessing - Ron Frederick - Feb 2021
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Advanced Skills:Transforming Entrenched Defenses, Pathogenic Affects and Trauma States in AEDP - SueAnne Pilliero - Jan 2021
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Experience Teaches: A Deeper Exploration of Our Own Capacity for Therapeutic Courage Through Opportunities for Experiential Practice with Colleagues course with Kate Halliday - Dec- 2020
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Advanced Skills: Navigating AEDP’s Experiential-Attachment Work in the Context of Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity- Kari Gleiser, Phd - Dec 2020
Essential Skills 1 - Ron Frederick 2020
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A Soulful Warrior’s Six Session Journey to Transformation Through AEDP with Jerry Lamagna, Feb- 2020 - Vancouver
Immersion training - Diana Fosha - NYC 2019
Clinical Counselling - City University - 2017
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Master's degree in Kinesiology - UBC
UBC- Canada, 2013-2015
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Multi-disciplinary Pain Management Certificate -
Medical School- USP - 2011
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Professional training in Eutony - Somatic Practice
Instituto Gerda Alexander Brazil - 2009- 2012
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Professional training in Yoga
Faculty of Physical Education - FMU - SP- Brazil 2003-2004/ 2006-2007
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Psychology Degree
Pontificia Universidade Catolica - SP Brazil- 1995-2000
(this is the program that fully equips professionals to become counsellors and psychologists in Brazil)
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My gratitudes and
experience
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I started teaching dance in 1993 following my dancing experience since 1985, when I was introduced to the work of Isadora Duncan, Pina Bausch and Rudolf Laban, among others. Their approach to dance is that movement is a form of expression and self-knowledge and not a technique.
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In 1996... read more
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