debra bailey
ba, bsw, msw, rsw
EMDR Therapist 

Meet Debra Bailey
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Debra is a Registered Social Worker who has her Masters in Social Work, is an EMDR trained therapist, and a member of the EMDRIA Association. Deb is a warm and gentle therapist who works with both youth and adult clients. With a broad group of specializations, Deb focuses on anxiety, mood disorders, recent and complex trauma, PTSD, brain injuries and neurodiversity including ADHD and Autism.

Deb holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto where she specialized in physical and mental health. She has additional EMDR trainings in autism and neurodiversity, somatic and complex trauma, attachment injuries and chronic depression. Deb commonly uses Dialectical Behavioural Therapy alongside EMDR to enhance emotion regulation and interpersonal skills.

With more than 20 years of experience in the field, Deb has worked in private practice and with provincial health services. She has worked with adolescent and adult psychiatry units, emergency department mental health teams, and a forensic psychiatric unit.

Deb is a registered Autism service provider with the Autism Funding Unit, an approved ICBC provider, and a recognized provider for First Nations Health Authority.

Originally from Ontario, Deb and her family moved to the Okanagan several years ago. She’s a leader with the Girl Guides, a cross-country ski coach, hiker, and dog lover - to the great happiness of Oakley her Aussie Bernadoodle.

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Training

• EMDR Basic Training with Sue Genest

• Trauma Focused CBT- Child & Youth Advocacy Centre

• EMDR with Autism and Neurodiverse Characteristics: the SCOT and START models

• Somatic Therapy for Complex Trauma Certification Training, Body Based, Polyvagal & Neurobiological techniques for mind body healing – PESI-Canada

• EMDR for Attachment Injuries  

• Chronic Depression Treatment within EMDR

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

• Family Check Up® 

• Emotion Focused Family Therapy

• Acceptance & Change Therapy

• The Foundations of Brain Injury for Health Care Professionals – BrainTrust Canada