Dr. Robert Cooley (founder and executive director of Catherine Freer Wilderness Academy) sat down with Dustin Tibbitts during a NATSAP conference earlier this year, and shared what it was like to start and lead a program.
According to Catherine Freer’s website “Dr. Cooley grew up on the McKenzie River in Oregon, where he learned to row a whitewater boat at age four. He made his way through college and graduate school by spending his summers logging, doing Forest Service trail work, and working as a river guide. He earned his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Oregon in 1979 and has specialized in family and adolescent therapy. He has lived abroad several times and speaks French, Spanish, and German. Dr. Cooley developed and directed a family therapy program at Oregon’s child welfare department and had a private therapy practice, while taking summers off to run a whitewater rafting company. In 1988, he combined his outdoor and therapy interests in founding Catherine Freer Wilderness Therapy Expeditions. Dr. Cooley and his wife Ingrid, a family therapist, live in Albany, Oregon, and have four children.”
We are so pleased that Dr. Cooley took the time to talk with us:
Please follow along this week as we post more videos from our interview with Dr. Cooley:
Dr. Robert Cooley (founder and executive director of Catherine Freer Wilderness Academy) sat down with Dustin Tibbitts during a NATSAP conference earlier this year, and shared what it was like to start and lead a program.
According to Catherine Freer’s website “Dr. Cooley grew up on the McKenzie River in Oregon, where he learned to row a whitewater boat at age four. He made his way through college and graduate school by spending his summers logging, doing Forest Service trail work, and working as a river guide. He earned his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Oregon in 1979 and has specialized in family and adolescent therapy. He has lived abroad several times and speaks French, Spanish, and German. Dr. Cooley developed and directed a family therapy program at Oregon’s child welfare department and had a private therapy practice, while taking summers off to run a whitewater rafting company. In 1988, he combined his outdoor and therapy interests in founding Catherine Freer Wilderness Therapy Expeditions. Dr. Cooley and his wife Ingrid, a family therapist, live in Albany, Oregon, and have four children.”
We are so pleased that Dr. Cooley took the time to talk with us:
Please follow along this week as we post more videos from our interview with Dr. Cooley:
Dr. Robert Cooley (founder and executive director of Catherine Freer Wilderness Academy) sat down with Dustin Tibbitts during a NATSAP conference earlier this year, and shared what it was like to start and lead a program.
According to Catherine Freer’s website “Dr. Cooley grew up on the McKenzie River in Oregon, where he learned to row a whitewater boat at age four. He made his way through college and graduate school by spending his summers logging, doing Forest Service trail work, and working as a river guide. He earned his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Oregon in 1979 and has specialized in family and adolescent therapy. He has lived abroad several times and speaks French, Spanish, and German. Dr. Cooley developed and directed a family therapy program at Oregon’s child welfare department and had a private therapy practice, while taking summers off to run a whitewater rafting company. In 1988, he combined his outdoor and therapy interests in founding Catherine Freer Wilderness Therapy Expeditions. Dr. Cooley and his wife Ingrid, a family therapist, live in Albany, Oregon, and have four children.”
We are so pleased that Dr. Cooley took the time to talk with us:
Please follow along this week as we post more videos from our interview with Dr. Cooley:
