
Jim has been a marriage and family therapist for 30 years and a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy since 1981. He has lectured nationally on marriage and family therapy and has been a commentator on mental health and family life on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
Jim is the author of Deliberate Love: How Couples can Deepen and Sustain Intimacy With the Mindful Use of Attention. Deliberate Love is based on Japanese psychotherapies which draw their inspiration from Zen Buddhism and Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. His hope in writing this book was to change the world by contributing to harmony in love relationships.