Mark is a Registered Social Worker. He has participated in education through a Master of Social Work from York University and a Bachelor of Philosophy from University of British Columbia, as well as through the many co-learning relationships in his life including the people he consults with through therapy. Mark has 12 years of experience engaging in community work with tenants, those experiencing homelessness, and those involved in the justice system.  These roles have influenced Mark’s work in therapy for the last 5 years, where he views social, political, and cultural influences as intertwined with the way we understand ourselves and the problems we navigate.  These roles have also taught him that we rely on each other in our journeys - we make meaning and make change together. Mark is most influenced by Narrative Therapy, which views problems as separate from people, and views people as the experts on their own lives. It is a collaborative and creative approach, which involves exploring the impacts of taken-for-granted “truths” or stories about our lives, and allows the people at the center of these stories to re-author them in ways that fit with their own values, ethics, hopes, and commitments.  Mark is also influenced by Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Invitational Practice, Transformative Justice, Harm-Reduction, and Mindfulness.

I live and work on the traditional territory of the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat, the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Métis. This territory is subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.