I grew up on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. For me, life changed at age 7 when my parents divorced and my family system changed. Once the reality of the change took hold and the moving from place to place started to happen, I began to be filled with insecurities, anxiety, disappointment, and trauma from my challenging family dynamics and relationships. As a teenager my focus changed from dealing with the pain of these challenges with my family to relying on my friends. I buried my feelings and spent a lot of my life angry, not knowing really what I was angry about. It took the loss of my marriage to discover the profound anxiety and sadness that was ultimately at the unconscious helm of my life. Learning from this loss drove me much deeper into myself only to uncover the lessons of what that anger and anxiety was directing me to… my own voice and how to express that while holding onto himself.
I spent over 30 years in the Permaculture, Health Food and Horticulture industries. During this time, I pursued many of my own personal and other professional developments. Notably, I spent many years doing work with Landmark Education and then over 10 years with Unity Institute, volunteering and chairing their board of directors in Victoria, BC. I participated in Unity Institute’s leadership courses with an intention to pursue my master’s in divinity. As well, I have studied shadow work coaching and participated in Men’s work.
I named my business Solid Ground Counselling to both honour all of my years in horticulture and the gifts that it gave me, but also to acknowledge the direct correlation between us developing and anchoring ourselves within our solid selves. I believe nature has many parallels to our own healing and wholeness that we can learn from and implement into our daily lives.
I have now located my passion in Transpersonal Counselling and bring all of my life experience, and my love for people, to my practice as a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor. I am a father to a teenager and feel a deep love and appreciation for those important years. My divorce allowed me to also realize my passion for romantic and intimate partnerships that not only work, but also deeply add to the quality of each partner’s quality of life. Relationships can provide us both with our deepest pain, but also our most profound learning. I am passionate about people discovering who they really are and living a life that is fulfilling, connected to their own personal values, and transforming the painful and limiting beliefs that may be causing them suffering.
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