Kim Barthel

Kim Barthel is a world-renowned therapist and teacher on the topics of developing self-awareness, compassion and healthy relationships. Relationship Matters is a transforming force, which helps shape positive change in an ever-changing world. A little company co-founded by Kim Barthel and Bob Spensley in Victoria, BC, Canada. It has been expanding to include Hilary LeRoy Gauthier and Eugene Hayduk, Marie McKenzie, Shelley Mannell and other esteemed colleagues. A few ways that this organic organization touches and shapes the lives of people around the world are through supporting, teaching, mentoring, innovating, inspiring and sustaining people and organizations that support a lot of people. With a propensity to travel, a contagious will to help, and a growing capacity to connect with web-based training, Relationship Matters contracts with private clinics, school boards, hospitals, government agencies, NGO’s, universities, group homes, not-for-profit organizations and even corporations. Each service arrangement or partnership is unique, depending on the professional/personal development needs and the local context.