Leonard Szymczak MSW, LCSW, has been a psychotherapist and educator for over 35 years. He was Director of The Family Therapy Program at the Marriage and Family Centre in Sydney, Australia, and later served as a senior affiliate therapist with the Family Institute at Northwestern University. He is the author of the novel Cuckoo Forevermore, a light-hearted satire on psychotherapy, and its sequel, Kookaburra's Last Laugh, due out in 2014. A licensed clinical social worker, he lives near the beach in Southern California where he writes, conducts seminars on personal/spiritual growth and writing,