For thirty years I have been a practitioner of words.  I have seen lives changed just by the way talk unfolds.  We have all heard speeches or sermons which have moved us so much that, just in the hearing of them, they alter our perception of the world and of life.  This is my stock and trade.  The task is to co-construct a conversation that assists in identifying goals which chart a better way through the difficulties life presents. 

There is evidence to suggest that if we even consider an alternate viewpoint, our cell make up changes.  In one of his many pieces on Shakespeare, Harold Bloom points to Shakespeare’s genius as his ability to show characters overhearing themselves.  “To overhear yourself, at least for an instant,” Bloom writes, “without self- recognition is to open your spirit to the tempests of change.”  Therapy is the activity of spending time with a professional who asks questions and makes suggestions which heighten awareness of alternate worlds.  I have the privilege of having different conversations, conversations that make a difference to individual lives.

I work as a therapist in two venues.  I work out of offices on the North Shore of Vancouver.  My practice is individual, couple and family focused.

The second venue, called The Brief Therapy Initiative, an independent project funded by individual tax deductible donations, works with the people of the Downtown Eastside (DES) in Vancouver out of an office at First United Church Mission at the corner of Gore Ave. and Hastings St.   

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