Meet the Counselors

Rev. Jack WaltersRev. Jack Walters is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the IAM Center for Creative Healing. He is a workshop facilitator, supervisor and teacher of the methodology of treating mental distress through the process of the Inner Politic. He also specializes in the area of feelings.

He has been practicing as a Pastoral Psychotherapist for over 40 years. He was trained at the Blanton-Peale Graduate Institutue in New York, founded in 1937 by Norman Vincent Peale for training of clergy for counseling. He is a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.

Jack is the author of Healing The Fractured Self (1985) and Jesus: Healer of Our Inner World (1995) and is completing Facing Our Feelings Volume I (2015). He will then begin the second work of this series, The Inner Politic: Power, Power, Who Has The Power?

Fred Strugatz Fred Strugatz is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the IAM Center. He is a pastoral counselor and artist. Fred’s practice integrates the Inner Politic theory with the expressive arts. He has been creating and facilitating experiential workshops since 1981. His training took place at the New School and the Arts Students League, both in New York City.

Fred’s primary medium is stone carving. He also works in watercolor and pen and ink. He is the creator of The No-Lines Coloring Book. He has a master level in Rapid Eye Technology. Fred is a member of the American Counseling Association and the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association.