Experience

Discovery Counseling Associates Bellingham, Washington (Private Practice; 2001-Present). Individual, couple, and group therapy. Specializing in sexual abuse counseling/childhood trauma recovery, affairs, treatment of sexual compulsiveness and sexual deviance; interventions; education (seminars/workshops, publications); organizational consultation with church leadership, missionary organizations and international NGO's.

Arrow Leadership International Ministries, Langley, B.C. (1999-present) Psychological consultant and seminar trainer.

Bayside Associates, Bellingham., WA. Associate (1999-1991). Individual, couples, family and group therapy, psychological testing, training, and supervision.

Sharlow Consulting Group, Inc., Vancouver, B.C. (1998-2001) Senior consultant and trainer.

Bayside Associates, Bellingham. Clinical Psychology Intern (4/98-3/99). Individual, couples, family and group therapy, psychological testing, training, and supervision.

Clinical Internship, Seattle Pacific University Student Counseling and Testing Center. Seattle, WA (Sept. 1997-March 1998). Clinical Psychology Intern. Responsibilities included individual, couple and group therapy, supervision, and psychological testing.

Discovery Counseling Associates Bellingham, Washington (Private Practice; 1992-1998). Individual, couple, and group therapy. Specializing in sexual abuse counseling/childhood trauma recovery, affairs, gender identity, treatment of sexual compulsiveness and sexual deviance; interventions; education (seminars/workshops, publications); organizational consultation with church leadership, missionary organizations and NGO's (national and international).

Youth With A Mission, Children In Need School. New Zealand, Canada, and the United States (1988-Present). Visiting Professor. Teaching courses on child abuse & neglect.

Burnaby Christian Counselling Group, Burnaby, B.C. (1989-1995). Staff counselor working with families, couples, individuals and groups. Specialized in childhood sexual abuse trauma, treatment of sexual compulsiveness and sexual deviance; interventions; and clergy sexual misconduct. Founder, supervisor and therapist for Out of the Shadows Sexual Offender Treatment Program. Also taught Skilled Helper and Caretakers counselor training courses; coordinator of periodic seminars on current counseling issues.

The Image Center/Skagit Discovery Program. Sedro Woolley School District/Northwest ESD 189, Mount Vernon, Washington (1986-1992). Counselor for specialized program for severely behaviorally disordered (SBD) students and their families. Individual, group and family therapy, crisis intervention, community case management, staff and school consultations.

Washington State Department of Children and Family Services (CPS). Bellingham CSO (1984-1986). Responsibilities as an "After-Hours" Caseworker III included child abuse and neglect investigation and intervention, family reconciliation services/crisis intervention counseling, and child welfare services.

Clinical Internship (1986). Northwest Treatment Associates, Bellingham and Seattle, Washington. Specialty: Outpatient Sexual Offender Treatment.