Dr. Will Cupchik Psychologist and Author  

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This is the official web site of Will Cupchik Ph.D., who for the past twenty-seven years,  has been working as a Registered  Psychologist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It also describes the various activities in which he has been engaged throughout his multi-faceted career over the past four-plus decades. Dr. Cupchik...
  • has been a counselor and psychotherapist for over forty years. He received training in individual and group therapy at many venues, including the former Western Institute For Group And Family Therapy located in Watsonville, California. WIGFT's co-directors, Dr. Bob and Mary Goulding, taught their Redecision [Transactional-Gestalt] Therapy approach to attendees at their week-long and extended workshops; Dr. Cupchik was a guest lecturer at some of their workshops, both in Watsonville and in Canada.

 

  • ... conducts individual, couples, and intergenerational (parent/adult child) psychotherapy at his office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

 

  • ... is the  originator of numerous original assessment and therapeutic tools. In the latter category is Reintrojection Therapy, a unique approach to uncovering and healing long-term, often painful, remnants of previous relationships, especially including parent-child difficulties. This approach was reported upon in 1984 in the professional journal, Psychotherapy: Therapy, Research, and Practice. His work in this area was also specifically cited in Dr. Christine Coutrious's important book, Healing the Incest Wound.    

 

  • ... works with many clients on issues of loss, depression, and anger, as well as on mid-life, mid-career issues, life and executive coaching, and pre-retirement and retirement matters. 

 

  • ... is also the original, senior investigator in the area of usually honest people who steal (over three decades in this field)

 

  • ... is the Head of the Atypical Theft Offender - Intensive Intervention Program, that offers out-of-town clients an opportunity to have 4  days (19 clinical sessions) working with Dr. Cupchik, to assist them in stopping this self-destsructive behavior.  

 

  • ... is the author of the best-selling book (in its category on BarnesandNoble.com in its category (keyword: shoplifting), titled WHY HONEST PEOPLE SHOPLIFT OR COMMIT OTHER ACTS OF THEFT: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF 'ATYPICAL THEFT OFFENDERS' 

 

Dr. Cupchik's working life has taken several paths:

  • first as a professional electrical engineer (in 1961-2) working at Computing Devices of Canada, designing navigational guidance systems for the then-next generation of military aircraft, and then as a:
  • high school science and mathematics teacher
  • guidance counselor and (later) attendance counselor
  • psychotherapist for over forty years, working with adolescents, adults, couples and groups
  • psychometrist and (later) psychologist on staff at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (12 years total: 1974-86)
  • Psychologist-in-Charge, Forensic Outpatient Psychological Services at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (2 years: 1984-86)
  • Psychologist in full-time private practice (1986 to present)
  • university lecturer in psychotherapy for the Graduate Studies dept of the University of Toronto 
  • developer of various original psychological techniques and pen-an-paper tools in the areas of relationships and atypical theft behavior
  • developer of Dr Will's DecisionBuddy, a software program that can assist an individual, couple or group in making decisions in relation to most personal and working areas
  • non-fiction author of the book, Why Honest People Shoplift Or Commit Other Acts Of Theft
  • author of the novel, The Arrow Manipulation, and  
  • webmaster pf this and numerous other websites. 

 

Various Media  in the United States, Britain, Europe, Canada, and Australia  have shown considerable interest in Dr. Cupchik's work over the past three decades.  As a consequence Dr. Cupchik has appeared on : CBS's Early Show...  MSNBC Investigates ...., ABC's Good Morning America...,   CBS NEWS 48 Hours....,  The Sam Donaldson Radio Show...., Lifetime Network's New Attitudes Program....,   

...and has been quoted in The New York Times...,   Los Angeles Times....,    San Francisco Chronicle...,    Chicago Sun-Tribune....,   Bloomberg News ... SELF magazine...., HEALTH magazine....,  PEOPLE magazine... among many other media programs and publications. 

 

Contact Information

 Telephone: 416-928-2262

 Fax:           416-489-8882
 
Postal and office address: 
250 St. Clair Avenue West, Suite G-3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 1R6
 
E-mail : wcupchik@aol.com 

Send mail to wcupchik@aol.com with questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © 2006 Dr Will Cupchik
Last modified: 03/10/06

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