I attended Columbia and Stanford universities as an undergraduate; I hold a master’s degree from Brandon University, a Ph.D. from York University, and I’m a graduate of the five-year training program in psychotherapy at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto. I’ve also been trained pretty thoroughly in the school of life—where I learned, among other things, that there’s always more to learn. My perspective has been influenced by Jules Henry, Donald Winnicott, Gregory Bateson, Edgar Morin, Bruno Latour, James Baldwin, Carol Gilligan, Alain Badiou, Alice Munro, and my principal mentor at the Gestalt Institute, JoAnne Greenham. I see these people as anthropologists who have dared to examine contemporary culture as if it were in its own way “strange, exotic and primitive”—an attitude which, when brought to bear in therapy, allows for unexpected flashes of insight into interpersonal patterns that we often experience as simultaneously familiar and mysterious.

I have an extensive background in writing, music and the visual arts, and always look forward to working with (among others) individuals interested in rethinking or transforming their engagements with creativity and creative media.