He has previously served on the faculty of The Neufeld Institute and has worked with Dr. Gordon Neufeld`s material for the past 26 years both personally and professionally.
He is a charter director of The Learning Circle in Family Therapy and on the faculty of The Okanagan Learning Circle Institute for Family Therapy.
An experienced clinician practicing for over 33 years, he has worked in a variety of settings teaching, supervising students and therapists-in-training, facilitating groups, and providing consultation and therapy.
More About David
“I am a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist (RMFT #2017003) and Supervisor-SQ in the Canadian Association for Couple and Family Therapy (CACFT) with extensive training in human relationship systems. I have a Masters degree from Loma Linda University and have previously been a Clinical Fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (1992-2020) and a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association for Clinical Counsellors (1993-1996).
I am currently a director on the Board of the BC Branch of the CACFT and continue to be involved in my profession at the national, provincial and local level.
I am a charter director of the Kelowna Family Therapy Learning Circle, an organization that provides education and support to local clinicians as well as providing workshops for the public. In 2008, I helped to establish the Okanagan Learning Circle Institute for Family Therapy.
Currently I am accepting new referrals for individuals and couples; invitations for full and half-day workshops; and I supervise other therapists and therapists-in-training who want to improve their clinical approach and deepen professional proficiency.
I have been married for 27 years, and have three adult children. We have made our home in Kelowna, in the southern interior of British Columbia during this time, but I have lived and practiced here for the last 33 years.
In addition to work, I enjoy my family, team sports (particularly hockey), the performance arts and a shared bottle of red wine with great friends.”
Academic Background and Credentials
David has a few professional qualifications, which matters to some people, so he’ll list a few here.
Qualifications:
Registered Marriage and Family Therapist – #2017003
M.Sc (Master of Science degree) in Marriage and Family Therapy from Loma Linda University
B.Sc (Bachelor of Science degree) in Behavioral Science with a minor in Physical Education from Burman University (previously Canadian University College)
Past Clinical Fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family therapy and the Registry of Marriage and Family Therapists in Canada – #29058 (2009-2020).
Professional Associate of The Neufeld Institute
Associate/Affiliate Member with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (1992-2009).
Past Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors – #0687 (1992-1996).
David Fung – 30+ Years Ago
Experience Highlights
- Private Practice – Kelowna, British Columbia
- Kelowna Youth and Family Services – children, adolescents, adults & family therapy
- Charter Board Director of the Canadian Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- Board Director with the British Columbia Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- Faculty member with the Neufeld Institute
- BC Cancer Agency, Cancer Centre for the Southern Interior – Psychosocial Oncology Psychotherapy
- Ministry of Children and Family Development through British Columbia Child and Youth Mental Health – Family Psychotherapy Consultant
- Director of the Learning Circle Center Institute for Family Therapy
- Central Okanagan Elizabeth Fry Society, Sexual Abuse Intervention Program – children, and women sexual abuse and trauma psychotherapy
- Counsellor Training Institute – Teacher and Intern Supervisor
- Private Practice – Accord Counselling Centre, Kelowna, British Columbia
- Central Okanagan Child and Family Resources Society – children, adolescents, adults & family therapy
Favorite Quotes
“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality” – Erich Fromm
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. –Carl G. Jung
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
“What is broken in relationship can only be healed in relationship.” – Dr. Diane Poole Heller
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you cannot utter” – James Earl Jones
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd” – Voltaire
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” – C.S.Lewis
“Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
– Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to observe Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg trials