Counselling in Victoria, BC

My Therapeutic Frameworks & Specializations

I offer counselling informed by a diverse range of proven therapeutic modalities, which I tailor to your specific needs. My toolkit includes: 

Clinical & Cognitive Approaches

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Narrative Therapy

• Existential Therapy

• Person-Centered Therapy

Somatic & Expressive Practices

• Somatic Therapy and Mindfulness

• Poetry and Writing Therapy

• Music and Sound Therapy

• Nature Therapy & Spiritual Grounding

Counselling For Men

I have a particular interest in helping men of all ages with their challenges. I know many kind, creative, generous men, and I believe in their goodness and potential. 

Men often struggle without opportunities or support to voice their thoughts and feelings. Men can feel that society has a lot of expectations of them but doesn’t much care to hear about their inner world. I find that men have complex and nuanced feelings that run deep, and they are often kept in the depths because they feel that they cannot afford to “whine about it.” Men have learned that few will hold space for such indulgence from a man. Opening up can feel unsafe.

Men too often suffer silently. I support men to navigate:

• Identity and Purpose: Finding meaning in masculinity, direction, and self-worth.

• Emotional Terrain: Processing anger, shame, and the pressures of social and cultural expectations.

• Connection: Developing healthy sexual expression, improving intimacy, and sustaining close relationships.

• Life Transitions: Navigating fatherhood, aging, andropause, divorce, physical decline, and grief or loneliness.

Just as the world is needing women to realize their full potential, it is seeking men who are fully alive and present. Many men struggle, and, increasingly, they want to explore why and what to do. When they begin to reconnect with the parts of themselves that have been set aside or beaten down, the benefits are significant, not just for them, but for their relationships and communities as well.

My goal in supporting men is to help them expand their ways of seeing, feeling and being so that they can live more satisfying lives and contribute in their fullest capacity to building a more humane, balanced, and connected world.

My Story

I grew up in a (once) small hippy beach town in Southern California called Encinitas. I was a flowerchild of the 1960s. My mother owned a bookstore and my father taught cinema arts at the local college (I’ve done a lot of reading and watching). The ocean and surfing taught me as much about the world as my parents did. I learned self-reliance, courage, grounding, health, and a deep connection to my body and to nature. In the ocean I formed a belief in non-duality and the unity of the physical and the spiritual.

In my life, opening one door always led to other doors. I went to university in the Northern California redwoods (with a one-year surfing break in Hawaii), joined the Peace Corps to teach English teachers in Pakistan, lived in the Czech Republic for a decade working in advertising and graphic design, and have made Victoria my home since 2003. I have been working as a real estate agent for the past 20 years. I have two sons and love being a father. When they went off to university, I decided at age 60 to do the same. It’s never too late to open another door!