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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. |
