Please
note the following:
I
receive many emails daily seeking advice. Due to the
volume of these email requests, I cannot even begin to read them
through. My services are restricted
to those below.
As
of September 26, 2012, counselling services provided by Registered
Social Workers (RSWs) can be claimed as a medical expense tax
deduction when you file your income tax return.
Statement
on Domestic Violence and Power Imbalances
Services:
About
Gary:
At
57 years of age, Gary
Direnfeld is a social worker with more than 31 years of experience
working with parents, teens and young children. With a private practice
located in Dundas, Ontario, he provides counselling, mediation and
assessment services on most matters of family life.
Courts
in Ontario, consider Gary an expert on social work, marital and family
therapy, child development, parent-child relations, custody and
access recommendations, and an expert at critiquing the assessments
of other assessors. He has a weekly parenting column in his city's
daily newspaper and has hosted 65 episodes of a reality television show working
with newlywed couples.
Gary
presents himself as an advocate for the well-being of children and to
this end he has lectured and given workshops on the impact of domestic
violence as well as parental separation and divorce issues on children
throughout Canada and into the United States.
-
Court
recognized expert in social work, marital therapy, child development
and custody and access matters;
-
First
Social Worker to sit on the Ontario Collaborative Law Federation,
Board of Directors;
-
Canada's
most recognizable social worker thanks to 65 episode reality series,
Newlywed/Nearly Dead;
-
Parenting
columnist - Hamilton Spectator newspaper;
-
Hundreds
of guest appearances on radio and television shows as guest
expert on family matters;
-
Presenter/Speaker
throughout Canada and the US.
Marriage
Rescue - Coming Spring, 2013
Parenting
Column - Hamilton Spectator
Advice
on Slice - answers to relationship questions
Newlywed, Nearly Dead
- TV Show
I
Promise Program - Teen Safe Driving
Have your parenting questions answered by
Gary
in
the Hamilton Spectator. Send your parenting question to:
question@yoursocialworker.com
(50 words or less)
Resume: PDF
version . HTML
version
Gary's
parenting column
Gary's
television show
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Google.com
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Gary's listings on Yahoo.com
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Gary in the news Google
News Search
See
Gary's dog
See
Gary's skydiving
adventure (youtube video)
See
Gary's Skydiving Adventure (in
pictures)
Cook
Gary's best personal recipes
Gary's
friend, Carol, on picky eaters
Family
photos
Favourite
song
Favourite
sign
Favourite
stress reliever
Favourite
aging humour
Favourite
Hamilton
Restaurant
Favourite
Birthday Song 1
Birthday Song 2
Contact
Information:
Gary
Direnfeld, MSW, RSW
Interaction
Consultants
20
Suter Crescent,
Dundas,
ON, Canada L9H 6R5
Tel:
(905) 628-4847
Email:
gary@yoursocialworker.com
Please
note, people regularly come great distances to see me. If you are
considering driving more than two or three hours, please let me know so
I can set an appointment to accommodate your drive.
Locations/Directions
