About Positive Relationship Inc
Mike Fidler
Mike Fidler is semi retired and provides clinical assistance to a small group of couples. He offers clinical supervision and consultation for couple therapists interested in developing skill sets in Gottman methods. Mike offers three consultation formats: one to one, on-going consultation groups, and in situ (sessional) coaching called Zoom behind the one-way mirror.
Mike Fidler teaches all levels of Gottman methods and is a consultant to therapists in the certification track through the Gottman Institute. He does guest lectures in university professional development programs and teaches youth about positive relationship.
Mike Fidler has a Master of Social Work degree & is a Registered Social Worker. He has certificates from the University of Toronto in custody access mediation, Psychosocial Factors in Rehabilitation & Addiction Studies, and has an Advanced Family Therapy training certificate from the George Hull Family & Children’s Centre. Mike is a certified Substance Abuse Professional under NAFTA. He completed his advanced training using John Gottman Marital Assessment & Intervention Techniques through the Gottman Institute in Seattle, Washington & is a certified Gottman couple’s therapist. Mike has advanced training in emotional focused couple’s therapy with Susan Johnson & Les Greenberg respectively. He has trained with Dan Wile. He has his advanced level training in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy as an attachment & trauma therapist for children and youth with Daniel Hughes.
Mike is certified by the Gottman Institute to train couple’s therapists in Level one introductory Gottman methods theory, Level two advanced training in Gottman clinical methods & Level three practicum, and as a consultant in the therapist certification track. Mike is a certified Art & Science of Love workshop leader.
He worked at the Haldimand Norfolk Children’s Aid Society for 12 years as a child abuse specialist, taught provincially & nationally for over 6 years for the Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse, has been in private clinical practice for over 30 years and managed Mike Fidler & Associates Inc. from 1989-2019.
Mike Fidler’s specialities with couples include addiction, affairs and high conflict.
Mike has volunteered for over 20 years as a marriage preparation trainer & is an international couple’s workshop leader delivering The Art & Science of Love Couple’s Workshop in Simcoe Ontario & abroad. Mike has more than 10,000 hours as a couple’s therapist. As a Gottman Certified Advanced Trainer, he continues a robust teaching practice. He has an interest in adolescent dating, their challenges, struggles and dangers.