Nick Todd is a psychologist who has worked in the areas of addictions, trauma and violence, and mental health since 1987. Nick is currently a psychologist with Alberta Health Services and also consults to agencies concerned with the problem of violence and has taught graduate courses in counseling psychology for City University of Seattle for the past 20 years. He also serves as a consultant to single session therapy at the Eastside Community Mental Health Centre and worked with provincial inmates for 26 years. He has published articles and a book chapter on response-based work with victims and perpetrators of violence, and is currently interested in how counselors can use metaphor and grammatical conventions to enhance the therapeutic construction of personal agency.