I started my career in juvenile corrections, working in institutions for delinquent adolescents, both as a counselor and supervisor. After receiving a master's degree in social work from the University of Washington in 1972, I taught at the college level in England. Upon my return I worked as a group therapy specialist for two mental health centers, and became the director of an inpatient adult psychiatric program in Pueblo, Colorado. I also taught psychology at Arapaho Community College; and conducted groups for Mt. Airy Psychiatric Center, and Professional Counseling and Psychological Services in Denver.

 

From 1977-2013 I was in a full-time private practice in Denver, Colorado, conducting two weekly psychotherapy groups, and seeing individuals and couples. I had a busy practice, often with a waiting list. I also conducted a Diversion Program for the Denver City Attorney's Office from 1997-2011, and subsequently am teaching for a comparable program through Better Communities of Colorado's John's School for the Denver DA's office. As of 2005 I was retained as a clinical consultant for the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, providing clinical consultation to the professionals who provide the Comprehensive Risk Counseling Services (CRCS) -- who deal with sexaully transmitted disease cases. Also, from 2007-2009 I served as a clinical consultant  for the CHiP programs at Children's Hospital. CHiP provides social work services to young people infected with HIV.

 

I am the founder and first administrator of the DenverPsychotherapistsNetwork which continues to this day as a portal for clients to find a suitable therapist from our 350 members, and a community forum for therapists to communicate with one another about referrals, office space, and other practice related issues.

 

I have been sited as "Best Psychotherapist"  by  the readers of Out Front Colorado for the years 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. In 2001 I also received the Colorado Community Service Award from P-FLAG (Parents and Friends of Lebians and Gays), and was recognized in a resolution before Denver's City Council for my work as a psychotherapist within Denver's GLBT community, particularly during the early years of the AIDS crisis.

 

I am a past member of preferred provider panels for 30 managed health care organizations. However, as of May 1st, 1996 I resigned from all of them and have since conducted an out of network, cash practice. By doing so my clients' confidentiality was assured, my loyalties were not split with insurance companies, and I avoided the inevitable ethical binds required of providers by managed health care. To make this possible for my clients I offered reduced fees by a third of the going rate.

 

I have written over seventy articles in professional journals, as well as for the popular media. I have two chapters in a book published by Haworth Press in 1999: HIV & Mental Health: Clinical & Policy Issues, edited by Michael Shernoff. From 1994 to 1999 I wrote Shrink Rap, a regular column in Colorado's award winning AIDS newsletter, Resolute!  These columns are posted on this website.

 

I have conducted numerous workshops and seminars at national conferences, including presentations in Baltimore, Maryland,  Cheyenne, Wyoming, Minneapolis, Minnesota, the University of Plymouth, England; and the Colorado Medical Center on a panel with the Medical Attache from the Netherlands. I was also on a panel with Bill Masters (of Masters & Johnson) about therapy with gay men in the 1980's. I have also been a regular guest on the Andria Van Steenhouse and Audre Brodt Shows on AM radio, and in August, 2000 was featured on Toronto television on the subject of "reparative" therapy (I don't believe it works).

 

 

 

In October, 2009 my wife and I did presentations for the Yunnan Department of Mental Health in Kunming, China and consulted with them on their inpatient psychiatric and alcohol treatment programs.