My Passion for Living Fuels Itself From My Complimentary
Purposeful Relationships
With Others.
Early in my career, I was known nicknamed as: "the 90-day Wonder.”
by my heroin-addicted clients.
They marveled at my skills, empathy,
understanding, and trustworthiness.
They found my abilities especially
significant knowing I was but
a young, college-educated male
from Montreal who knew nothing
about the truths of life in and
being an addict on the “Streets
of New York.”
MY FUNDAMENTAL ABILITIES TO RESPECT SIMILARITIES IN PEOPLE AND TO
RISE ABOVE OUR DIFFERENCES HAVE
GUARANTEED ME MY GREATEST SUCCESSES.
For
over 20 years, I worked as a clinical
psychologist in both public and
private practice.
During that time, I counseled
well over 1,500 individuals (adults,
adolescents and children) in individual,
group, marital, and family therapies.
As a therapist and as a consultant,
I collaborated with any significant
social system that was necessary
to assure my patients ultimate
success.
I made it my mission in
life to jump into the middle of
my patients’ greatest traumas
and pain, unafraid to share those
moments with them, as and until,
they achieved relief.
Over
the years, I have assumed many
roles.
I have been a program director
for the mentally ill homeless. I counseled substance abusers and addicts.
I founded or co-founded
several health care related businesses
including: The Center for Psychological
Services, a multidiscipline outpatient
mental health clinic; Rediscovery,
an outpatient cocaine treatment
program; Time For Me, Inc., a
mind/body stress reduction clinic;
and Residential Treatment Centers
of America, an intense residential
treatment facility for adolescents.
I have taught, trained and supervised
psychological interns and assistants
and introductory psychology for
the University of Phoenix.
I
found my true passion as I transitioned
from being a clinical psychologist
into Professional Development
Business Coaching.
As a Coach, I have maintained
my keen sense of caring about
others.
I use many of my professional
skills, but with a new focus. I now work with people who, like me, are seeking
personal and professional change,
pleasure, meaning, and joy, people
who want to live in complimentary
environments to sustain all that
we are and want to be.
Coaching affords me the
ability to work with the “coachable,”:
you know: “normal people” and
the luxury of referring, as necessary,
the “diagnosably impaired” to
qualified licensed mental health
professionals for psychotherapy.
I earned my B.A. from Loyola College
of Montreal, Canada, 8/68, my
M.A., from The New School for
Social Research – N.Y.C. 7/71,
and my Ph.D. in clinical psychology
from the California School of
Professional Psychology – Fresno
7/76. I have trained with CoachVille
and The Institute for Life Coach
Training and am a member of both
The International Coaching Federation
and The International Association
of Coaches.
