Jann Derrick M.A. RMFT. PhD.
Ms. Derrick has specialized training in Relationship and Family Therapy and is a Registered Family Therapist and is of Mohawk heritage. She has been in practice for over 30 years in Vancouver, Lytton, Vernon and Kamloops.
Ms. Derrick has delivered workshops and trainings in all parts of Canada, USA, New Zealand and Australia. She did pioneering therapy work with residential school survivors in Lytton, B.C. in the 1980's. Ms. Derrick has worked at Round Lake Treatment Centre as a clinical supervisor, a trainer of Drug and Alcohol counsellors, and as therapist in the innovative Trauma Recovery Program for Native trauma.
Ms. Derrick has published professionally about The Box and the Circle and Native Family Systems, as well as contributing to books such as The Dispossessed by Geoffrey York, Voices of Colour – First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists ed. Rastogi andWieling, and Multicultural Couple Therapy ed. Rastogi and Thomas.
Ms. Derrick is a Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor in the Canadian Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. She is also a member of the Canadian Psychological Association and the American Family Therapy Academy.
Ms. Derrick is currently completing her doctorate and her dissertation is entitled ‘OnenKiwahi: The Indigenous Worldview as the Foundation in a Family Therapy Practice’. She served as a director on the Board of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy from 2008 - 2010, and was awarded the John Banmen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Family Therapy in B.C. in 2003.
Ken Genlik, RSW, MMFT, RMFT, PsyD. Can, EMDR Therapist
Ken Genlik is a complex trauma, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and relationship expert who is a Doctor of Psychology candidate, a registered social worker (RSW), and a registered marriage and family therapist (RMFT). He has enjoyed practicing individual, couples and family therapy for many years. Mr. Genlik uses evidence-based treatment modalities that have been researched internationally and found to be the most effective approaches to stress, complex trauma, DID, PTSD and relational trauma.