Mark Shelvock, RP, MACP, MA, is a Registered Psychotherapist based in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, specialising in existential, psychodynamic, and attachment-informed psychotherapy for adults navigating quarter-life and midlife crises. He maintains a private clinical practice that helps people build lives they don’t want to escape from. He also teaches at the university level and has lectured to thousands of people on psychotherapy, human development, post-traumatic growth, and the value of living an examined life. His writing attends to the gap between the life people are living and the one they suspect is possible.