Dr. Stephen Madigan holds two Masters Degrees in Counseling (MSW, MSc) and a Doctorate Degree (Ph.D) in Couple and Family Therapy. He is recognized world wide as a highly gifted couple, individual, group and family therapist (see references).
Stephen was recently honored by the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) with their Distinguished Award for Innovative Practice in Couple and Family Therapy Theory and Practice (a first for Canada!). By all accounts, his therapy work with individuals, families and couples is unsurpassed in the city of Vancouver.
Stephen's narrative therapy is resource focused, resolution based and offers long term healthy results. On average, and depending on the issues brought forward, the majority of people attend counseling for 4-5 sessions. Currently, over 40% of Stephen's clients are couples.
Clients experience a short-term, cost effective and change-oriented therapy. Years of client feedback demonstrates Stephen's narrative therapy is very successful in the long term.
Stephen is a supervisor and clinical member of the American/Canadian, European and International Associations for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is also a faculty member with the Taos Institute and Tilberg University in the Netherlands - supervising doctoral students with their PhD dissertations.
Stephen is a member of Vancouver's Collaborative Practice Team - working alongside a committed group of lawyers, therapists, and financial persons whose sole purpose is to help separating couples either find a way back together or negotiate a fair minded family/couple separation agreement - without going to court.
Stephen's new book for the American Psychological Association (APA), entitled Who has the Story Teliing Rights to the Story Being Told: Narrative Therapy Theory and Practice will be out in December 2010. The book is accompanied with a set of six 'live session' DVD client interviews called Narrative Therapy Through Time. With the help of an an eight person film and production crew, the DVD's were able to fully capture the inner workings of his unique narrative therapy practice. The DVD's are now on sale through the APA.
Stephen is a longtime Advisory Board member for Dulwich Centre Publications International Journal for Narrative Therapy and Community Work and, an Advisory Board member for the European 'Human Systems' Journal of Therapy, Consultation and Training.
Stephen teaches narrative therapy workshops worldwide (see workshop schedule) and hosts the annual International Therapeutic Conversations conference. The next TC conference takes place in May 2011, in Vancouver.
Register at www.therapeuticconversations.com