COLLABORATIVE FAMILY LAW

HAMILTON / HALTON GROUP

 At 52 years of age, Gary Direnfeld is a social worker with more than 26 years of experience working with families, teens and young children. With a  private practice located in Dundas, Ontario, he provides counseling, mediation, assessment, arbitration and parenting coordination services on most matters of family life from the comfort of his home office.

Courts in Ontario, Canada, have deemed Gary an expert on child development, parent-child relations, marital and family therapy, custody and access recommendations, social work and an expert at assessing the work of other assessors. In addition to his private practice, Gary is an internationally known author with several hundred articles to his credit and a book, Raising Kids Without Raising Cane. Gary is a regular on several television and radio shows. He has a parenting column in the Hamilton Spectator, is quoted in newspapers throughout North America and is the host of his own reality TV show, "Newlywed, Nearly Dead".