Hi. Who am I? The never ending question that we ask ourselves. For me, it is a becoming – like becoming the best therapist I can be.
My first client was when I was eleven years old. I didn’t know I was doing therapy at the time, I was just helping a friend. He was really down and I invited him to my place and pulled out a bunch of model cars and airplanes. Together we built a hybrid flying Mercedes with a helicopter rotor on the hood. Voila, a flying car, and his spirits took off.
Theatre school and a twenty year acting and directing career impacted my personal development in a major way, as did the human potential movement – lots of workshops (taking and giving). Finally, I started the journey towards qualifying myself to work as a psychotherapist.
After thirteen years, two universities, three degrees, and working part-time as a therapist, I surfaced from that episode of my life.
Since then, I have been in private practice while working on a contract basis for Corrections Services Canada in a maximum security prison hospital, was a clinical faculty member at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, supported and re-trained students who had failed their practicum placement to become teachers, worked with an EAP provider, and taught at three different universities (University of Saskatchewan, Phoenix University and Adler University).
Currently, I teach at Adler (Group Psychotherapy) and have supported grad students in their Practicum Seminars. I am an associate with Alyson Jones & Associates and with Candace Plattor who works exclusively with addictions. Also, the last ten years I have had the great privilege of working with the BC Society of Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse.
In a nutshell, I have taught, trained, coached, encouraged and supported individuals and groups for over forty years. I still love it!