I have been informed by my upbringing and childhood to be deliberate and interested in the world. I have many interests that include woodworking and building useful furniture, bicycling both for the love of athletic sport and for application of technology as I maintain my equipment, gardening and lanscaping to increase productivity through management of the biological processes. Importantly, I am a parent and have been closely aligned with my childrens' maturation, skill development, acquiring values and testing their limits. No one person can be "in charge" of another but we can certainly influence, guide, help adapt, observe closely, learn how to give space and in certain instances and for certain people learn how to get closer and be more intelligently involved in supporting and guide towards the healthiest and most productive development. I beleive strongly that emotions, values and cognition are all required to inform the person-baby or ancient-about that step forward or backwards in life, simple to complex skills.
I rely on the most up to date research in my field and utilize the most modern standardized assessmnet tools as well as two decades worth of developed and proven clinical reasoning experience.