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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. 

 

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Services:

  • Counseling: Individual, Marital, Family, Parental, Child/Adolescent, Separation/Divorce... and more...

  • Counselling: Specifically regarding children of separated parents

  • Distance Counseling: Counseling via SKYPE...

  • Mediation: Resolving on-going parenting after separation or divorce

  • Assessments: Child Custody and/or Access; Parenting Capacity 

  • Assessment Critiques: When you think the assessment doesn't measure up...

  • Parenting Coordinator: An alternative to turning to the Courts to settle parenting disputes as they arise

  • Collaborative Family Practice: Support to facilitate the separation/divorce process...

  • Family Group Conferencing: A process to facilitate decision making regarding the well-being of a family member

  • Workshops / Public speaking: - Listen to Gary's workshops and view his PowerPoint presentations! Review feedback scores and view lists of presentations. Then call as your next Key Note speaker or workshop presenter.

  • Not sure? Please call to chat: 905 628-4847

 

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

 

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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.

 

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20 Suter Crescent, Dundas, ON, Canada L9H 6R5  Tel: (905) 628-4847  Email: gary@yoursocialworker.com

Counselling and assessment services serving Hamilton, Dundas, Ancaster, Stoney Creek, Burlington, Brantford,

Oakville, Grimsby, Waterdown and other local areas.