Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, Clinical Traumatologist, and Registered Yoga Teacher.

Guided by attunement and with awe of the human condition, Mark believes that healing begins with acknowledgment and that, as witnesses, the relationship is more important than the
therapy itself. Held unconditionally, the unimagined, unthought, and unspoken are honoured as they accompany a human story no longer lost in time or veiled by shame but voiced by aesthetic compassion and grace.

As a current PhD student, Mark is immersed in creative research exploring how fictive memoir—specifically coming-of-age stories of childhood into initiated personhood—may help free the grasp of intergenerational trauma while reaffirming intuition and fostering a place for both grief and love.

Mark is currently completing the final portion of his intensive three-year Somatic Experiencing program and will soon be a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. He has also begun his official Internal Family Systems (IFS) training at the IFS Institute.

Degrees: 

Master of Social Work, Clinical Social Work
Master of Arts, Creative and Critical Writing
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Music and Economics

Integrated and Informed Modalities:

An unconditional and somatic approach to Existential Therapies, Art Therapies, Narrative Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, and the Tri-Phasic Trauma Practice Model.

Areas of care:

Trauma, Intergenerational Trauma, Grief and Isolation, Anger and Addiction, Anxiety and Depression, Systemic and Dominant Ideological Oppression, Voice and Artistic Expression, Movement and Somatic Exploration, and Spirituality and Meaning.