Advanced Academy Credentials:
Degree:
Ph.D., University of Denver (1992) S.T.M., St. Thomas Seminary (1988) M.A., Denver Seminary (Counseling, 1985) M.Div., Denver Seminary (Education, 1985)
Granted Degree:
B.S., Metropolitan State University (Denver, CO)
Profession:
22,000+ hrs combined experience as a clinical supervisor, with individual and group supervised clinician experience; PC&C is primary expertise: collaborative-empowerment strategies, including intensive motivational interviewing, brief solutions-focused interventions, with a team-based wellness focus; pursuing expertise in best practices, evidence-based psychotrauma recovery strategies: R-TEP, EMDR, SE, narrative/logo-therapy; expressive arts individual & group modalities: art/painting, canine & equine assisted techniques, poetry-writing, psychodrama, recreation; with extensive classical training in psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, attachment, interpersonal, systemic psychotherapeutic approaches; with interfaith and no-faith spiritual care and counseling, existential-crisis mitigation, spiritual direction, identity formation, team-leadership development competencies. Decades of multifaceted, on-scene crisis intervention, in addition to major military and civilian medical center (Level I trauma) service, including combat-related and mass casualty triage; crisis negotiation, suicide and fratricide prevention experience; with immersions in, and recoveries from, life threatening combat-related medical-surgical emergencies, both primary and secondary traumas, compassion fatigue, burnout -- personal injuries. Named mentors and qualified clinical supervisors and clinical hrs by: year, type, setting, modality, etc. are listed in my comprehensive curriculum vitae.
Specialty:
Sacramental-confidential communications, first responder support, community crisis intervention, interfaith existential-spiritual crisis counseling, pastoral psychoanalytic-psychotherapy, etc.
Affiliations:
Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Diplomate) | Trichotillomania Learning Center |
Additional Certifications:
Certificate, Intensive Motivational Interviewing, Univ of Massachusetts Medical School - Jan 2015, Certificate candidate, Spiritual Direction, Southern Methodist Univ (Perkins) - 2015, Certificate, Psychotrauma Narrative/Logo-therapy, ICTP & Hebrew University of Jerusalem - 2014, Certificate, Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol R-TEP (2014) & EMDR Levels 1 & 2 (2013), Volunteer Crisis Chaplain, Int'l Red Cross ID#AF148621 and American Red Cross ID#44601
Custom Profession:
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow; Yale University Board Certified Chaplain & Crisis Counselor Pastoral Psychoanalytic-Psychotherapist Field Operative; New York State Chaplain Task Force