Jacqueline Ravel Counselling

Reading list (so much more to come!)

Favorite Books of All Time

Just Kids by Patti Smith

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

The Places That Scare You by Pema Chodron

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr

Truth and Beauty by Anne Patchett

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Lover by Margerite Duras

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Memoir

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Glass House

Educated by Tara Westover

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Lit by Mary Karr

Cherry by Mary Karr

M Train by Patti Smith

Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolf

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Hold Still by Sally Mann

Between the World and I by Ta-Nehisi Coats

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

Fierce Love by Vivian Gornick

The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn R. Saks

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

Drunk Mom by Jowita Bydlowska

Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch

My Dog Tulip J.R. Ackerley

Essays

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

All About Love by bell hooks

Psychology

Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon

Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson

Ace by Angela Chen

Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate

The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown

The Gift of Therapy by Irvin Yalom

Writing and Creativity

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Bodywork by Melissa Febos

Welcome

I’m glad you are here. My name is Jacqueline Ravel (she/her) and I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) specializing in working with trauma, relationships, and identity. I am experienced with and passionate about working with emerging adult-age people.

As someone who has struggled with both anxiety and depression, I come to my work with the compassion and insight of lived experienced. My experiences as a woman with ADHD also contributes to my therapeutic lens. Before becoming a counsellor I was a teacher, a writer, a circus performer, a wanderer, a truth seeker, a lover of words and language. I have lived in Japan, Spain, France, and the United States and speak English, French, and Spanish fluently.

I am a white, cisgender, neurodivergent human who loves dogs, making art, and discovering beautiful things.

I am a settler practicing on the unceded traditional and ancestral homelands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples.

Education

• Master of Education in Counselling Psychology (2017) - University of British Columbia

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction (2011)-University of Arizona

• Bachelor of Arts in Spanish (2007) University of British Columbia

Professional Trainings, Certifications, and Registrations

• Registered Clinical Counsellor (#14918) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC) since 2018.

• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

AEDP Level One Completion (2021)

AEDP Level Two Completion (2022)

AEDP Level Three (in progress)

• Core Self Reclamation Therapy

CRST Introductory Course (In Progress)

• EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association (EMDRIA) approved basic training (2019)

Treating OCD with EMDR: Exposure and Response Prevention and Ego State Therapy with Sandra Paulsen (2019)

Initial Clinical Interview for EDMR treatment planning with Sandra Paulsen (2019)

Looking Through the Eyes: Working with EMDR and dissociation with Sandra Paulsen (2019)

Towards and Embodied Self: Somatic Therapy and EMDR with Sandra Paulsen (2019)

When There are No Words: EMDR Early Trauma Protocol with Sandra Paulsen (2019)

Simplifying Case Formulation, History Taking, and Target Sequence Planning for EMDR with Andrew Leeds (2019)

• Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing for Helping Professional Introductory Course (2015)-University of British Columbia

Motivational Interviewing for Helping Professionals Advanced Course (2015)-University of British Columbia

• Sandplay (Canadian Association for Sandplay Therapy)

Module One

Module Two

Module Three

Module Four

Module Five