Professional Experience
Currently I have over seven thousand hours of clinical experience. This includes college student counseling, private practice, agency counseling, and clinical assessments. The latter experience was obtained, in part, at Keystone City Residence in Scranton, PA where I provided the IQ testing, diagnostic work, and assessment services for over 300 residents. For a full-time year, I also provided counseling to African-American juvenile delinquents at KCR.
My post-doctoral year of residency was spent at TCN: Behavioral Health Services in Xenia, OH. It is the community mental health center of Greene County, OH. In addition to working with youths-at-risk populations, my experience there focused particularly upon conducting psychological evaluations and testing.
For ten years I conducted testing & assessment at Baptist Bible Seminary where I worked with the seminary interns & their wives. Specifically, I assisted them as they prepared to begin their one-year pastoral internships and utilized the instruments which included an extended battery of psychological tests. For six years I also participated with a similar assessment testing/screening process for the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE).
Undergraduate & graduate courses I've taught include the following: general psychology, human growth & development, child psychology, adolescent psychology, adult development & aging, psychology of learning & education, personality theory, learning theories, introduction to counseling, historical & contemporary theories of counseling, abnormal psychology, tests & measurements, social psychology, guidance & counseling, introduction to learning disabilities, career counseling, ethnicity, families, & counseling; counseling theory & techniques, personality development & learning, abnormal behavior, ethics & professional orientation to counseling, biblical philosophy of counseling, supervised counseling practicum, supervised field experience in counseling, appraisal & testing in counseling, projective assessment, and research design. For the following courses, I served as a graduate teaching assistant (T.A.): counseling process: practice, senior theology, and family counseling. In addition, I've also taught Greek III & IV as well as theology survey.
Additional Experience
Presently, I maintain a private practice conducting forensic psychological evaluations and psychological testing.
For one summer I taught conversational English to migrant workers with the Scranton Cultural Society in Scranton, PA. I taught in Spanish.
For three years I worked with the Hopeline Counseling Ministry, a 24-hour-per-day crisis counseling ministry to the greater Kansas City area. My last year there, I served as the Director and provided oversight & training to the fifty staff counselors.
For one year I taught behavior education & modification at a weight loss clinic in Greenville, SC.
