Biography

I thought you might like to know a little about my professional and personal background outside of being a counselor.  Everything we experience affects how we approach life on a daily basis.  Everything I have experienced affects my approach to counseling.

Professional Experience

In addition to counseling, I am currently the President of Clark Synthesis, a small high-tech company.  I started out in the world of technology by earning a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1980.  My past technical experience includes being an Engineer, Engineering Manager, Project Manager, and seven years as an Independent Consultant.  I have developed Medical, Industrial, and Commercial products for both domestic and international markets.  I have experience working with regulatory bodies and governmental agencies.

Personal

I started life in 1957 in Island, Kentucky.  I went to elementary school in Campbellsville, Kentucky, and Jr. High and High School in Louisville, Kentucky.  I attended Kentucky Wesleyan College for two years, then finished my degree at Vanderbilt University.  I worked in Nashville, Tennessee for a few years, then moved to Boulder in 1983.  After getting married in 1988, my wife and I moved to California in 1989.  Three children later, we returned to Colorado in 1996.  I am now the father of three teenagers.

Travels

I do like to travel.  I have been in 49 of the 50 United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Senegal, Israel, Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Japan, and China.  I also lived in Brazil for 6 months after college and traveled much of that country – including spending a few days with an Indian tribe in Amazonia.

Counseling

I first went through counseling when I was single.  I told the counselor that I had not gone to sleep one day in my life at peace.  I couldn’t make relationships with women work, and I didn’t know why.  This wonderful counselor took me through a course of intensive therapy.  In that year, the therapist uncovered much emotional damage, and took me through a process of healing that damage.  Even better, the counselor gave me the tools to continue the healing process as more emotional damage surfaced in the coming years.