Bullying hurts everyone

Bullying damages children. Damaged children carry their wounds into adulthood. Some of them are lucky and can heal themselves. Others look around for ways to distract themselves from their pain and humiliation and wounded self-esteem. When the distractions they choose make a mess of their lives and the lives of their dear ones, they sometimes seek out help from people like me. By which time, it’s a little like cleaning up an oil spill. As a therapist, I know from experience that it’s far, far better to grow healthy human beings from the seeds of a nurtured childhood than do psychological overhauls on adults damaged by bullying, or by being bullies, or who witnessed bullying and couldn’t — or wouldn’t — intervene. It’s truly a form of preventable violence if we set our collective wills to stopping it through education and vigilance — and love, basically.

Hybrids: Are You One Too?

As a psychotherapist, writer and meditator, I do understand what it’s like to juggle many different lives in one.

My Credentials

• M.A. in Counselling Psychology (Adler School of Professional Psychology, Chicago) • Certified Gestalt Therapist (Gestalt Institute of Toronto) • Certificate in Applied Mindfulness Meditation (U. of Toronto, Fac. Social Work) • Certified Mediator (Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Ontario) • Certified since 1999 by OACCPP (Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors,Psychometrists and Psychotherapists)

Hybrids continued ...

I draw on my Cognitive, Gestalt and Mindfulness-Based skills and experience to help you catch the moment’s possibilities and tap back into your own innate spontaneity.

MEDIATION — meditation without the T

A mediator locates the hidden obstacles or emotionally-charged grievances that create impasses. It's not always a picnic. Both parties may leave from a successful mediation feeling they gave ground in order to get to yes. The consolation prize: freedom from the knots of conflict and battle fatigue.

Healthy Mind, Healthy Body

I encourage all my clients to follow their dreams and push past fears. I practise what I preach. Four years ago, I took up horseback riding and now compete in Western reining classes on my quarter horse, Jesse James.

Mindfulness in Motion

I have maintained a Vipassana (Mindfulness) meditation practice for almost 4 decades. I happily teach the basics of meditation to any who ask. I regularly bring my Mindfulness in Motion workshops to busy people in corporate and health services settings.

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” ~ Anna Quindlen