Richard Helfrich

Road Safety Consultant
 

Richard Helfrich has been a licensed driving instructor since 1973. He completed a BA degree at University of Toronto in 1974 and a B. Ed degree at the University of Windsor in 1976. Mr. Helfrich owned and operated a driving school for new drivers from 1974 to 1990. He was a founding member of the Driving School Association of Ontario and held various executive and board positions within that organization between 1978 and 1988.

Mr. Helfrich qualified as a Chief Instructor in 1980. He implemented and managed the first Ontario College Qualifying course for driving instructors at Humber College, in Toronto between 1980 and 1985. He was a founding member of the Chief Instructor Association and was president of that organization between 1981 and 1985. Between 1978 and 1998, Mr. Helfrich developed and provided fleet safety programs to corporations across Canada. He developed a collision history diagnosis system to provide and interpret the data needed to provide training programs that are particular to the safety needs of individual corporate clients. He also developed specific evaluation tools to measure training success.

From 1999 to the present, Mr. Helfrich has concentrated on providing in vivo coaching programs to collision victims who have developed anxiety related conditions that stem from their collision experiences. In that time, he has provided, or participated in, hundreds of related assessments and client treatment programs and developed coaching and instructional techniques that complement psychological treatment to help clients regain pre collision levels of comfort as drivers, passengers and pedestrians.