Colin Sanders
Colin has been involved in the counseling field in Vancouver since 1979, having just completed an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology. Colin is Team Leader for the RainCity Housing First ACT Team, leading a team working with persons struggling with mental illness and substance use and chronic homelessness. He teaches at City University of Seattle’s Vancouver Campus (since 1998), and is also the Counseling Clinic Supervisor for City University’s community based counseling clinic, in partnership with Broadway Youth Resource Centre. Colin was Clinical Director of Peak House for 15 years, and an Associate Director of Yaletown Family Therapy and is on the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy. Colin has published several book chapters and journal articles, and his most recent teaching has been in Inuvik, NWT, and Havana, Cuba. Colin lives with his partner Gail and their two cats in Chinatown/Strathcona, where they spend time with their grandson, Declan. Colin’s daughter Maya is a librarian with the VPL, and recently announced she is applying to undertake another M.A., in, of all things, counseling psychology. Colin’s son, Adrian, recently completed an M.A. in Anthropology, and lives near Sydney, Vancouver Island, where he works as a consultant. Colin loves reading poetry, philosophy, theology and literature, and is partial to weekly pints at The Whip.
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Sanders, C., & Thomson, G. (1994). Opening space: Towards dialogue and discovery. Journal of Child and Youth Care , 9 (2), 1-11.
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Sanders, C., (1997). Re-authoring problem identities: Small victories with young persons captured by substance misuse. In C. Smith and D. Nylund (Eds.), Narrative therapies with children and adolescents (pp.141-162). New York:Guilford Press.
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Sanders, C., (1998). Substance misuse dilemmas: A postmodern inquiry. In S. Madigan and I. Law (Eds.) Praxis: Situating discourse, feminism, and politics in narrative therapies. (pp. 141-162). Vancouver, Canada: Yaletown Family Therapy/Cardigan Press.
- Sanders, C., (2007). A poetics of resistance: Compassionate practice in substance misuse therapy. In C. Brown and T. Augusta-Scott (Eds.), Narrative therapy: making meaning, making lives. (pp.59-76). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.