Rev Dr Joseph Randolph Bowers EFM, PhD, MEd Counselling, GCHE, CPNLP, BA Distinction, HACA, is a Counselling Psychotherapist and author of over two hundred works including books: The Practice of Counselling; Sacred Teachings from the Medicine Lodge; Mi'kmaq Puoinaq Two Spirit Medicine; On the Threshold: Personal Transformation and Spiritual Awakening; and The Mass of Creation: Liturgies and Prayers for All Occasions. Rev Dr Bowers holds a PhD in Counselling Health and is an ordained minister in the independent apostolic movement. He is an Honorary of the Australian Counselling Association, and co-founder of their international research journal. Rev Dr Bowers is an Associate Scholar with the Centre for World Indigenous Studies; an Invited Scholar with both the Mi'kmaq Resource Centre, Cape Breton University, and the Tepi'ketuek Mi'kmaq Archives. Joseph Randolph is an Honorary Recipient of the Mi'kmaq Elder's Council Sacred Eagle Feather. He works in community practice as a Clinical Behavior Specialist Counsellor Psychotherapist with Ability Therapy Specialists Pty Ltd based in the mountains of New South Wales, Australia.
