Vikki Stark, M.S.W., M.F.T.

Vikki Stark, M.S.W. is the Founder and Director of the Sedona Counselling Centre of Montreal. An individual, couple and family therapist for over twenty-five years, she teaches therapists-in-training at the Argyle Institute and is a supervisor accredited by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Stark, a native New Yorker, began her career working as a social worker in Harlem. In 1985, she moved to Montreal and opened her private practice. Over the past decades, she has devoted herself to public education, regularly speaking at schools and community groups, and has been a familiar face on Montreal television, contributing her views as a guest expert.

Stark's most recent book, Runaway Husbands: The Abandoned Wife's Guide to Recovery and Renewal, is based both on her own experience as well as on the Sudden Wife Abandonment Project in which she interviewed over 400 women worldwide who were left out-of-the-blue from what they believed to be happy marriages.

Her first book, My Sister, My Self: Understanding the Sibling Relationship that Shapes Our Lives, Our Loves and Ourselves, was based on a study Stark conducted in which she interviewed 400 women, teens and girls about their sister relationships. The book explores how having grown up as an older, middle, younger or twin sister makes an indelible mark on a woman's identity, one that affects her in every aspect of her life.