Dick Wulf, MSW, LCSW
Licensed Psychotherapist (Licensed Clinical Social Worker)
Marriage and Family Skills Trainer and Coach
Team and Small Group Effectiveness Trainer, Consultant and Coach
Marriage and Family Skills Trainer and Coach
Team and Small Group Effectiveness Trainer, Consultant and Coach
Dick has over 45 years of experience as a psychotherapist and in small group and team leadership. He has been in private practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado since 1979 and 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 Wulf moved to Colorado Springs in 1969 to be a psychotherapist at the Pikes Peak Mental Health Center (now Aspen Pointe). 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.
Dick and Jean married in 1965. They have three daughters and four grandsons. Dick and his wife Jean, also a psychotherapist, have lived in the same house for 42 years and been involved in their community. Dick has been president of the Pleasant Valley Neighborhood Association for a total of 7 years over a period of 30 years. He has also been active in church leadership positions.
Jean, MSW, LCSW does limited psychotherapy and works with a few home health care agencies as a consultant.
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 Medallion Award.
Dick is also the designer of the game DragonRaid, a role-playing game that teaches Christian principles, helpful behavior and problem-solving skills.
Dick directs the National Family Communication Initiative which publishes and sells relationship-building products.
WHAT I LIKE TO DO THE VERY BEST
- Help people overcome mental health problems and leave unhealthy diagnoses behind.
- Help people believe in themselves either again or for the first time.
- Help people stop thinking divorce and begin to really enjoy one another.
- Help families understand and enjoy their times together.
- Help parents do the right thing when faced with confusing situations or difficult teenagers and young adults.
- Help angry people use that anger in a constructive way to help themselves and others.
- Help people really enjoy life and be all they can be.
- Good at understanding psychological and sociological dynamics of a person's problem situation.
- Good at getting resistant people to work on their problems and relationships.
- Good at problem-solving. Known for my creativity.
- Good at getting people to believe in themselves.
- Good at lightening the load by viewing problems a bit more lightheartedly because they mean something, can be solved, and are useful for becoming a better and smarter and more effective person.
- Sense of humor (we will laugh some).
- Do not work with children under age 8.
- No specialty in addictions counseling.
- No early morning appointments due to morning sickness caused by gall bladder removal years ago.
- Sense of humor can be a little bizarre once in a while.
- Road trips with my wife Jean.
- Doing things with my grandsons and visiting my daughters.
- Sitting by streams and lakes in the mountains while writing, designing helpful games, or creating something that can help people.
- Running a few web sites to help people do better with one another (VeryGoodFamily.com, TeamandGroupLeadershipTraining.com, LambsBride.org, and ChristiansTogether.org.)