Hello, I’m Norm Quantz. I’m a counseling therapist. I married my sweetheart Neva when I was just twenty two years old. We have two wonderful children and we enjoy spending time with them and their families.

I’ve been in private practice as a counseling therapist since 1982. In 2007, I added online video counseling to my practice. I’ve been an adjunct professor training therapists and counselors in issues related to counseling and Neva and I both teach seminars on issues of relationships and how to make them whole, with a focus on going from coping to conquering instead of living in the struggle of how to “put up” with the difficulties going on in your life. 

We enjoy looking at the power and control dynamics in relationships. As an expert relationship therapist I’ve been able to help many people gain some excellent perspective in their lives and in all their relationships, whether in marriage with family or with children. This has caused their relationships, to really get whole and well so that they no longer have the need for therapy sessions anymore.

My private practice has been built pretty much exclusively on word of mouth. That has been my marketing plan. I have always believed that if I do a good job as a counseling therapist that the client will tell somebody else who also tells someone else etc. The online therapy actually enables these happy clients to refer their friends and relatives from a long way away and I am able to accommodate them as well.

I have been working on a relationship counseling model that I call causal therapy. This model is eclectic in that it brings a lot of other models such as cognitive behaviour therapy type models together. Causal therapy is really about going to the reason that people have different struggles. The reason has often developed into their coping style which has then developed their relationship style, which we often refer to as their personality style which is really often based in their developmental years that I go back to as a causal therapist. I take them back there and we have a look at that and make sure that is what they want to believe and get them to look at it as an adult and reconsider so as not to stay just coping with life.

I have a deep interest in is the issue of mental illness and mental health issues that people struggle with and our whole industry in therapy is extensively trying to grapple with to get the answers to depression, marriage problems and anxiety problems that are just so enormous within our global scene right now. 

I have been trying to help therapists and professionals have a look at those as symptoms of issues of pathological or dysfunctional power and control issues in people’s relationships. This has been phenomenal in its results. This is an opportunity for me to be able to expose some of this thinking to the general public and to professionals.

Please feel free to interact on my blog. I welcome feedback, questions and comments and I look forward to meeting you here. 

With You in Mind,
Norm