Joe Solanto, Ph.D. served as a School Psychologist for nearly 18 years in the public schools of New York. For the next seven years he acted as Director of an outpatient mental health centre which treated the full range of psychiatric disorders in youth and their families, using combinations of clinical and complementary therapies. Since coming to BC in the early 1990’s he has been teaching trauma related courses at the Justice Institute and consulting across Canada in First Nations and Inuit communities. In the mid-90’s he served as Director of the Vancouver Ocean Challenge Society providing at-risk youth with 15-day marine/wilderness expeditions using the principles of adventure-based counselling.