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After completing a very successful run at university and acquiring the necessary degrees and accolades to be part of the academic community, I left the confines of the Ivory Tower and started my private practice. In university, I was fortunate to study with some great mentors and have a very solid scientific background.
Although science has its place, psychology is also an art. An art that requires a very strong link to one's own intuition. Even though I may be proud of my scientific and academic accomplishments, I am equally proud to have studied several types of meditation, yoga, Pilates, martial arts, Zen, Buddhism, Japanese calligraphy, comparative religious studies, and a variety of great therapies that are part of my consciousness.
Apart from being a psychologist (l'Ordre des psycholgues du Québec permit 05067), I have certification in fitness training and behavioral nutrition. Although, psychotherapy is about problems, it is also about empowerment, growth, and grace. We should feel good about psychotherapy as a tool to get us where we really should be in life, with no judgment and with peace of mind.
Undergraduate and graduate research was all about the eyeball. Vision research at Concordia University. That led me to work at McGill University in the field of motorsport with the McGill Motorsport Research Group. Worked with a lot of athletes in motorsport as welll as other sports. I was responsible for vision assessment and vision training as well as general assessment of physical conditionning and reaction time. I lectured in the Department of Kinesiology and finished my sport psychology training.
On a clinical note, I trained at the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Montreal General Hospital and numerous other teaching facilities in a variety of psychotherapy disciplines.
I appeared on many radio talk shows, TV stuff and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers. I had my own little spot on an FM-station called The Health & Fitness Report with Stan Rog. There's my 15 minutes of fame. On a more serious side, I have published several scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals (i.e: Jounal of Physiological Optics, etc.)
Prior to 2008, I was fortunate to have the unique opportunity of owning an integrative psychology facility (Brooklyn Heights Lifestyle Management) in Montreal. It had a complete private gym and consulting offices housed in a 1500 square foot loft. I was fortunate to work with a great bunch of clients, many who had interesting personalities. Given my penchant for confidentiality, none will be named but all are dear to my heart. Albeit many clients were famous or well-known, all were famous in their own right.
Alas, the facility was sadly retired as a I was destined to move to the country. As many will attest, that plan went into another direction. As a result, I remained in the city and took a one-year sabbatical to write and relax.
And now, I am joyfully back at work.
AN ECLECTIC APPROACH
Not all life situations are approached with the same resolution plan. We need to take into consideration many factors that can affect our strategies. The same goes for psychotherapy and wellness. There are many options to intervention and we all don't respond identically to the same therapy. An integrative approach to solution oriented therapy seems to make more sense, since there is so much out there, and there is something good in all that's available. Some of the types of therapy I use are listed below. Sometimes I use one discipline or a mixture of therapies. It depends on what we are working on.
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