Family Therapist, Social Worker & Mediator.Co-Director of Bower Place Psychology, Psychiatry, Family Therapy with Catherine SandersFamily Therapy training at the Adelaide Children's Hospital under Michael White & Jeff Gerrard.Expertise in clinical practice with complex, comorbid matters across all forms of personal, relational & systemic difficulty & disabilityTeaching Systemic Practice & Family Therapy since 1981.49 years professional experience.Fascinated by Bateson's concept of negative explanation; the link between negative explanation and the reflexive/recursive relationship between neuroscience and the socio-relational; and the order of thinking required to grasp the truth of this recursion. Interested in the nature of analogue and it's relationship neurally and socially to the literal. Interested in the analogues that shape clinical practice. Interested in tropes, turning & analogue and the analogic nature of life itself. How does life turn? How does a relationship turn? How does an individual turn? What is change? What does it mean, to dance?Professional practice background in street work with the homeless; prisons; adolescent & adult corrections; child, adolescent & adult psychiatry inpatient & outpatient units; substance abuse & addiction; intellectual disability, acquired brain injury & ASD; child protection, sexual abuse & violence; couple & family relationshipsExpert evidence in the SA & WA Magistrates, District & Supreme Courts; Diversion Courts & most tribunals in child, youth & family law. Central to establishing the emotional abuse of children as a recognized category in Law. Accredited Member, Australian Association of Social WorkersClinical Member, Australian Association of Family TherapistsMember, Institute of Arbitrators & Mediatorsof Australia2004 Australian & New Zealand Family Therapy AwardLife Member Family Therapy Association of South AustraliaPast President of the Family Therapy Association of South Australia