Bret is the founder of The IDEAS institute and Restoration Counseling with over 20 years of experience in the field of psychotherapy. His experience includes successful endeavors within the fields of therapy, addiction recovery, and non-profit community work. As the co-director of Restoration, he is committed to developing his staff and interns through personal mentoring and training in state licensure. Bret is an expert in collective effervescence, which he defines as “The ability to awaken vivacity in several individuals at once, and then assimilate that enthusiastic energy into a collective direction.” Bret creates, organizes, and develops relationships with, and intimately leads, large groups toward common goals within growth-inducing environments. Bret is a master of emotional alignment and is a specialist in experiential play, creating programs that develop people through invitation, intellectual cross-pollination, multimedia, and kinetic activity. Intersubjectivity, differentiation, risk, wonder, process, and systems are all Bret’s main focus of expertise.