Your Journey to Healing
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With over 50 years of dedicated service, Finlay Counselling & Mediation Services has successfully empowered countless clients to overcome challenges and reclaim their lives. His solution-focused approach consistently yields meaningful outcomes.
Five Decades of Commitment and Expertise
Mission
To empower individuals and families to achieve personal fulfillment through meaningful counselling and mediation services, fostering growth and resilience in a supportive environment.
Values
Bob Finlay is committed to delivering respectful, solution-focused, and accessible care while maintaining confidentiality, ensuring his clients feel heard, valued, and empowered in their journeys.
A Dedicated Professional Committed to You
Bob Finlay, MA RFT RCC
Bob is a Registered Family Therapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor, Reunification Counsellor, Certified Mediator, Parenting Coordinator, Coach, and Evaluator with over 50 years experience at Finlay Counselling & Mediation Services. He offers services in counselling, mediation, coaching, and reports.
His Extensive Experience
For over 50 years, Bob has worked as a Registered Family Therapist and Registered Clinical Counsellor with individuals, couples, and families. In 1995, he decided to bring his skills to the field of family law by helping families who are going through separation and divorce.
Bob has been a Family Mediator for over 50 years, a Child Protection Mediator for over 12 years, a Parenting Coordinator for over 12 years, and a Section 211 Evaluator for over 25 years. Bob has mediated over 1200 files, acted as a Parenting Coordinator on over 70 files, written over 100 Section 211 Reports, and written over 190 Views of the Child Reports. He has also been qualified several times as an Expert Witness in the Supreme Court of British Columbia and the Provincial Court of British Columbia.
In 2009, Bob was recruited by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to appear in the documentary Don’t Wreck The Kids. In this documentary, Bob mediates a family dispute with a couple undergoing a divorce.
In 2010, Bob founded ReConnect Families, a parent and children reunification program, where a team of counselling professionals work with a family with high conflict dynamics and parental alienation. Bob has been appointed on a number of files to conduct parental alienation assessments for the Court. He consults with lawyers and families from all over Canada and the United States with respect to parental alienation cases.
Since 2010, Bob has worked as a Trainer and Coach with the Legal Education Society of British Columbia where he assisted family law professionals to screen for family violence and develop their dispute resolution skills.
Bob completed a Master’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Simon Fraser University. He completed mediation training at the Justice Institute of British Columbia and the Community Legal Education Society of British Columbia to become a Registered Roster Mediator. Bob is a member of the Family Roster with Mediate BC and is qualified to mediate under the Family Law Act.
Bob completed training in parenting coordination and was a member of the Parenting Coordinator Roster for 12 years with the British Columbia Parenting Coordinator Roster Society. He also completed training in reunification counselling including specialized training with Dr. Barbara Fidler, Dr. Yvonne Parnell, and Dr. Kathleen Reay, renowned authors and experts in treating parental alienation.
Bob was the former Director of a Family Violence treatment program and a specialist in addictions assessment and treatment after receiving training with the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario.