Mark Smith

Social Worker, Vancouver, Richmond

I am a Family Therapist whose been in practice for over 30 years. My Masters degree specializes in assessing and working with family emotional systems. Along with my family systems perspective, I integrate my understanding of child developmental needs in the process of parenting coordination.

I added a divorce specialty to my practice in 2002 when I began providing service as a Collaborative Divorce Coach helping divorcing parents create parenting plans.

In 2007 I was one of the first in British Columbia to be trained as a Parenting Coordinator and so I brings extensive experience to the process. I’ve had many Parenting Coordinator families, with parents not only in the Lower Mainland, but on Vancouver Island, in the Okanagan and in Europe.

Through my experience as a Divorce Coach and Parenting Coordinator I’m very familiar with implementing parenting plans and finding creative solutions to the issues that come up when there are grey areas or different points of view. I look to meet the needs of both parents and their children when parenting plans and court orders have either not addressed an issue or there are grey areas.

I’m committed to helping parents find reasonable solutions to issues that are in the best interest of their children, and when necessary to make decisions to eliminate conflict.

As a Registered Social Worker I am not required to charge GST.