Jeff views his role as a psychotherapist, mediator and divorce coach as a collaborative one.

Serving individuals, couples, and families, Jeff creates a safe, balanced environment for clients to explore what’s most important to them. Jeff works with a directness that is respectful, but one that also facilitates clarity, understanding, and change. Through an ongoing interactive process, Jeff supports, guides, challenges, and encourages clients to move towards the accomplishment of their goals.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in Writing & Transpersonal Psychology - BA (Burlington College)

• Masters Degree in Couples and Family Counseling – MA (University of Colorado at Denver)

• Trained in General Family System Therapies

• Certified Addiction Counselor – CACII (Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division)

• Diplomate of American Association of Clinical Sexology - DAACS (American Board of Sexology)

Background:

• Counseling support and treatment of individuals suffering from serious and persistent mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction, PTSD, and sexual trauma

• Private Domestic & Civil Mediation

• Court-appointed Mediator:  Small claims disputes; domestic and family conflict; pre- and post- divorce; protection orders; parenting plans; and, child support

• Planning, implementing, and facilitating community development

• Collaborative Divorce Coach

I’ve been in Boulder County for 26 years.  In this time, I’ve been through marriage and divorce, starting a small business, grown it for 15 years, and sold it.  After divorce, I became involved in my own personal and spiritual growth process.  For 13 years, I’ve maintained a meditation practice with group support and had several spiritual teachers in the process.

Through this process, I’ve gained a solid ground, a ground I see as necessary for any consulting or counseling.  For the past 7 years, my working with conflicting couples in mediation has been an opportunity to practice staying connected to this ground in the midst of chaos.

I’ve participated in the evolving development of the Nyland Cohousing Community, engaged in intensive work with Nonviolent Communication (Dr. Marshall Rosenberg), Arny Mindell’s process work (a quantum physicist and visionary in the group process field), worked in the role of mediator / conflict manager for 7 years, worked with individuals diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness for 2.5 years, and worked with varying client issues resulting in successful solutions for what worked best with the client.  I am passionate about my work and take my role seriously.