About Burt Bertram
Counselor, consultant, author and professor, Dr. Burt Bertram has been in practice in the Orlando area since 1978. His professional efforts focus on assisting individuals, couples, families and workgroups to productively identify, understand and address the issues that are influencing or shaping their lives. In that regard, Burt is most professionally satisfied when he is helping resolve sensitive, complex, and important “people-related” issues.
Dr. Bertram is a relationship-oriented therapist and consultant. He believes individuals come to understand themselves and grow best when in the context of others. As he told his graduate students; Every person who walks into your office is “surrounded” by their significant others (living or dead) as well as the social and cultural context in which they live. Therefore, if we are to be of service to our clients, we must appreciate the tremendous influence that social and cultural forces have on the identity of our clients. We must also understand and honor the others that have helped shaped the living experience of every client. This perspective is important whether Burt is working with one individual, a couple, family or a workplace team/group.
Until recently, Burt Bertram was Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Studies in Mental Health Counseling program at Rollins College, where for 25 years (1994-2019) he taught and mentored a generation of practicing counselors in Central Florida. Additionally, he was a consulting psychotherapist to The Center for Physician Wellbeing at AdventHealth, Orlando (2008-2019). In that capacity he provided a range of life-enhancing services (consultation, education, and counseling/psychotherapy) to physicians and their family members.
An expert on ethical issues in counseling, Burt Bertram is co-author with attorney Nancy Wheeler of The Counselor and the Law (2019), published by the American Counseling Association. He has also been a leader in the counseling profession serving as President of the Florida Counseling Association, Florida Mental Health Counselors Association, and the Central Florida Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
On the personal side of life…Burt can often be found adventuring with wife Leilani, playing with his four children and twelve grandchildren and/or hiking in the mountains or along the coastline of Maine and New Hampshire.