His academic studies were in literature and philosophy at McGill, Cambridge (Queens’ College) and the University of Toronto. He taught at the university and college level and has done advanced research in learning.
Business attracted his energy for many years in the role of management consultant and organizational learning strategist, but his energies are now directed to his private psychotherapy practice, developed over the past decade in response to the expressed needs of business clients.
His view of therapy is that the therapist acts as an experienced guide, someone who has been exploring longer, and who can share some good maps to make one's journey easier and more useful. The therapy journey is an opportunity to think about, express and explore all the things that make up a unique life.
He founded the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy in 2000. He maintains an active involvement in current philosophical, literary and psychoanalytic theory, often merging the thoughts of Lacan, Derrida and McLuhan in startling ways.
He is an advanced martial arts practitioner in the Yang lineage and is active in various outdoors pursuits..
Stephen has been an active developer of Salon 425 and the contributor of several very indifferent witticisms therein.
