Background and qualifications

Lynn Hutchinson

I hold a Master's Degree in Counselling (Psychology). I am a Registered Social Worker,Registered Parenting Educator, Provisional Psychologist and Certified Grief Recovery Specialist® who has worked with people in difficult situations for over 20 years. I have been involved in the Mediation field since 1995, in the Arbitration field since 2006 and in the Coaching field since 2010. I have experience conducting court ordered interventions.

Practical Experience:

• ADRIA Mediation and Negotiation Coach
• Alberta Justice Provincial Civil Claims Mediator
• Better Business Bureau Commercial Mediator
• Catholic Social Services Parent - Teen Mediator
• Community Mediator 
• Conflict Resolution Facilitator with the United Church of Canada
• Divorce Coach
• High Conflict Coach
• Family Mediator
• Municipal Affairs Mediator
• Parent - Teen Mediator
• Parenting After Separation Facilitator
• Parenting Coordinator
• Practice Note 7 Interventions
• Workplace Coach and Mediator
• Workshop Facilitator

Training:

• Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
• Arbitration Certification
• Addictions
• Assessing Danger in Abusive Relationships
• Assessing For Suicide in Kids
• Assessment
• Case Assessment
• Child and Adolescent Counselling
• Child Development 
• Child Mental Health
• Children's Rights
• Children Resisting Contact
• Circle of Security
• Clinical Foundations in Gottman Method - Couples Therapy and Treating Affairs and Trauma
• Collaborative Law 
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy 
• Complex Trauma 
• ​Conducting Reunification Therapy
• Consensus Building
• Counseling Psychology
• Couples Therapy
• Danger Assessment
• Domestic Violence Danger Assessment Certification
• Emotion Coaching
• Evaluative, Therapeutic and Mediation/ Arbitration Interventions with Separated/ Divorced Families - Practice Note 7 
• Family Violence 
• Family Law
• Family Restructuring Therapy Workshop
• Family Therapy
• Foundations of Solution Focused Practices
• Grief and Loss 
• Grief Recovery Method
• Hearing the Voice of Children in a Family Law Arbitration
• Helping Children Deal with Loss
• High Conflict Personalities
• High Conflict Co Parenting: Interventions for Children’s Alignment and Resistance 
• Increasing the Voice of the Child in Family Mediation
• Indigenous Awareness
• Mediation 
• Mourning and Trauma 
• Negotiation 
• New Ways For Families 
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
• Non-Evaluative Hear the Voice of A Child
  
• Non-Violent Communication 
  
• Parenting Capacity Assessments 
• Psychology of Trauma
• Restorative Justice
• Risk Assessment and Threat Management
• SARA/B-SAFER Overview 
• Screening for Power Imbalance
• Signs of Safety 
• Social Work 
• Solution Focused Coaching
• Weaving Together The Child's Inner World: A Psychodynamic Foundation
• Violence Against Women 
• Warrior Health Training - National Mental Health
• Workshop Facilitation 

Memberships:

• ADR Institute of Canada Inc. 
• Alberta Family Mediation Services
• Alberta College of Social Workers
• Association of Collaborative Professionals (Edmonton)
• College of Alberta Psychologists
• Family Mediation Canada 
  
• Grief Recovery Method Institute
  
• International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP)
• Psychologists Association of Alberta

Qualifications:

• Arbitration Certificate
• Certified Advanced On Line Grief Recovery Method Specialist
• Conflict Resolution Certificate
• Domestic Violence Danger Assessment Certificate
• NLP Certification
• Parenting Capacity Assessor
• Practice Note 7 Intervention
• Registered Parenting Coordinator and Arbitrator​

Committee Work:

• Child and Youth Interest Group - Alberta College of Social Workers
• Domestic Violence Task Force - IACP
• Separation and Divorce Committee - Family Mediation Canada
• Judicial Review of Practice Notes 7 & 8