I have been helping Individuals, Couples and Families achieve their potential since 1980.

In the early 1980's I worked with families and adolescents in a group home setting. It was here that I cut my teeth on families and how they funtion. I began to see more clearly how each family member influenced and shaped the other. Parents influenced each teenager, each teenager had different emotional ties to Mother and to Father. For each parent that overfunctioned the other underfunctioned. For each teenager that was struggling and a "rebel," there was another sibling, the "good" one, that could do no wrong. All were caught up in an emotional dance.

My experience in those early years motivated me to seek out training as a therapist and I Completed my Masters degree in Social Work at UBC in 1988 having been trained as a Family Therapist specializing in Family Systems Theory.

In my general therapy practice I've worked with thousands of clients many of whom have told stories of the fallout after a divorce. Either they are still caught up in the hurt and anger of their own divorce or as children they went through their parents difficult divorces.

I've been involved with the Collaborative Divorce Vancouver Group since 2002 and am a former Co-Chair. I am also a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP).

In addition, I'm a Parenting Coordinator and on the PC Roster of British Columbia. Parenting Coordinators work with high conflict parents post divorce.

I am also President of the Board of Living Systems Society, a not for profit organization that provides counselling, training, education in Bowen Family Systems Theory and is actively pursuing research in the area of family functioning.

I separated in 2001 and divorced in 2005. I'm the Father of three great children, a daughter aged 11, and two sons aged 14 and 18. I enjoy an amicable and effective co-parenting relationship with their Mother.