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 I grew up in a large family on a farm in Southern Ontario and also spent many summers on my grandparents’ farm in Prince Edward County. We knew the birds by their calls and the wild flowers by name. To this day I am averse to eating meat because of all my old friends among the cows, horses, pigs and chickens. I seem to have been born a pacifist. I was good at school work but always did best at independent study and that quality remains to this day. When I got interested in a topic I might read 20 books on that subject before moving on to the next topic that woke my passion. I married at age 23 and moved out on my own at age 39 with my 3 children. I had never met a divorced person so this was a very foreign world to me and my children. But it gave me a new passion – to understand what happens to marriages that start out with such passion and end with such disillusionment and pain. I spent the next 30 years studying many aspects of that question and learned much from many wonderful teachers both in person and in books. All of this led me to give up my first profession which was Nursing, and open my own Psychotherapy practice in 1978. Not the least of all my wonderful teachers were the many different kinds of clients I was privileged to serve. They were people with a dream and with the willingness to work to make their lives and the lives of their families better. It gave me hope and joy to see them make those dreams come true. Once all my children were launched in their own homes and families, I moved to Dundas, a lovely town, closer to the natural world of my childhood. I still maintain a consulting room in Burlington but am semi retired, seeing only a few clients a week and one group. My children and grandchildren light up my life, which is making is easier to reduce my working hours. I continue to take great joy in clients who have the determination and perseverance to make real changes in their lives. click to view resume |
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