Lori’s professional expertise incorporates 27 years of training and experience in both holistic and clinical treatment models and methods across all areas of human functioning and human development.

REVELANT TRAINING
Intake and Investigation Module (1998)
Court Module (1998)
Risk Assessment (2000)
Core 100 Series (2001)
7 day on site training at Omega Institute, Rhinebeck New York with Dr. Jon Kabatt- Zinn of the University of Massachusetts. Stress reduction program and Mindfulness Meditation. (2007)
Many therapeutic training’s covering a wide variety of therapeutic interventions i.e. Motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy, systems theory, cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, feminist theory and eastern therapeutic practice.
9 day on site training at Spirit Rock Meditation Centre, California with Dr. Jon Kabatt-Zinn, John Teasdale and Christina Feldman. 85 persons attended from around the world, were accepted by application only.

Advanced training in Mindfulness. (2009)                                                    

Trauma Release ~ Clay Miller (2011)   

Somatic Trauma ~Peter Levine (2012)   

Anatomy Trains – Core Awareness ~ Tom Myers and Liz Koch Kinesis (2017)

Acceptance Commitment Therapy (2022)

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (2022)

Populations Served

Individual Adults, Couples, Families, Children, Disabled.

Competencies ( not exclusive or limited to)

Counselling, Life Coach, Mentor, Mind~Body Practitioner

Declared expert witness- voice of child reports

Therapy- Stress reduction- Relaxation Treatments

Somatic Trauma release

Lori  Ellis-McKinney  RSW

Clinical Mindfulness Expert

Court Declared Child Welfare Expert

Owner~Operator of River Valley Wellness Centre 

Oak Valley Retreat Institute

Ellis McKinney & Affiliates