Dick
Wulf, MSW, LCSW
Licensed Psychotherapist
Marriage and Family Skills
Trainer and Coach
Team and Small Group Effectiveness
Trainer, Consultant and
Coach
Dick
has over 41 years of experience
as a psychotherapist and
in small group and team
leadership. He helps families,
marriages and individuals.
Dick
received his B.A. in Social
Welfare from the University
of California at Berkeley
in 1965. His Masters Degree
in Social Work is from the
Columbia University School
of Social Work in New York
City (1967), where his major
course of study was Group
Work.
Dick's
work with groups in the
South Bronx of New York
City was the one student
example of group work presented
to all the professional
group work community of
New York City in 1967. It
was then published in the
book The Practice of Group
Work edited by William Schwartz,
the originator of the group
work model Dick teaches.
Dick
has used the group work
skills he learned to break
ground in many areas, including
stopping homosexual rape
completely for four years
at the military maximum
security prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. He
also used group work (therapy)
to help the angriest, most
assaultive prisoners leave
solitary confinement and
get on with their lives.
Dick
Wulf moved to Colorado Springs
in 1969 to be a group therapist
at the Pikes Peak Mental
Health Center. Soon, Dick
became the Program Director
of the Pikes Peak Mental
Health Center, supervising
the clinical programs of
all 26 offices.
While
at Pikes Peak Mental Health,
Dick also served on many
community councils, boards
and governmental committees,
often as the chairperson.
Dick has consulted to many
organizations, often where
team dysfunction threatened
either survival of a company
or huge lawsuits.70's and
presently.
Dick
has been president of the
Pleasant Valley Neighborhood
Association in Colorado
Springs twice: back in the
70's and presently. He has
also been active in church
leadership positions.
In
1983, Dick authored a book
titled Find Yourself
- Give Yourself. It
went through three printings
and was one of the top five
finalists for the Gold Medalion
Award by the Christian Booksellers
Association.
Dick
is also the designer of
the game DragonRaid, a role-playing
game that teaches Christian
principles, helpful behavior
and problem-solving skills.
Dick
and his wife Jean, also
a psychotherapist, have
The Great Relationships
Store which publishes and
sells 13 relationship-building
products.
Dick
and Jean married in 1965.
They have three daughters
and four grandsons.