Spiritual Care and Counseling

Education:

• Argosy University 2008-2011 (M.A. Community Counseling)
• Reformed Theological Seminary 1991-1995 (M.Div. Concentration in Counseling)
• Southeastern College 1983-1987 (Bachelor of Arts Ministerial Degree)

Licensed:

• Licensed Associate Professional Counselor (LAPC; #3156) with the state of Georgia.

Membership

• Post Graduate Affiliate Member with the American Academy of Psychotherapists
• National Certified Counselor with the National Board Certified Counselors (NBCC)
• Full Membership with the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation

Training:

Ridgeview Institute (September 2010- June 2011)

• Individual and group counseling with addiction and Axis I & II disorders, family meetings, documentation, lectures

Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, SC

• Crisis interventions; psycho-spiritual and bereavement counseling to chronic and terminally ill patients

Patrick B. Harris Psychiatric Hospital, SC

• Integrate psychology and spiritual counseling to patients diagnosed with Axis I & II disorders

 Ongoing Education/Specialty:

Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD (6 Hours)

Hypnotherapy (I, II, III; 23 Hours)

Comprehensive Treatment of Anxiety Disorders (5 Hours)

• Prolonged Exposure Response Therapy

Integrating Resource Installation Strategies into EMDR Practice (6 Hours)

EMDR Training (Part I, II; 40 Hours)

Basic Therapeutic Strategies for Trauma Survivors

The Art and Ethics of Couple Therapy

EFT Couples Therapy Core Skills (Part I, II, III; 36 Hours)

Four day Externship in Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples (30 Hours)

 Published Articles and Book:

• “Love, Intimacy, and Death” (Voices, Summer Issue 2011)
• Contributing author to opentohope.com. “God Doesn’t Zap those who Express Emotion”, “Military Families: The Shock of ‘Killed in Action’”, and “People Don’t Understand: A Universal Cry” (2010), “Turning Over a New Faith” (2011)

• Spiritual Care to Elderly and Dying Loved Ones (Quality of Life Publishing Company, January  2010)
• “Power Patterns within Professional Relationships” (Healing Ministry Journal, Volume 16, No. 2, Winter 2009)
• “Executive Directors: What They look for in a Hospice Chaplain Candidate” (Healing Ministry Journal, Volume 14, No. 1, Winter 2007)
• “Embracing Elderly Patients’ Wish to Die” (Healing Ministry Journal, Volume 13, No. 4, fall 2006)
• “Reaching the Latin American: What Hospice Needs to Know” (Health Ministry Journal, Summer 2006)
• “Chaplain: Point Person for Interdisciplinary Team Development” (Healing Ministry Journal, Volume 12, No. 3, Summer 2005)
• “Spiritual Awareness and the Interdisciplinary Team” (medscape.com, May 2005)

 Public Speaker:

• Guest Speaker at Radio X
  • “Writing on Death-and Dying”
• Speaker at the Annual Comfort Keepers 
  • “Spiritual Care to Elderly and Dying Loved Ones”
  • “How End-of-Life Care Impacts the Caregiver”
• Speaker at End-of-Life Symposium 
  • “Understanding the Person of the Professional in End-of-Life Care"
• Georgia Hospice Palliative Care Organization 
  • “Spiritual Care and the Interdisciplinary Team”
• GHPCO Annual Clinical and Leadership Conference
• Radio Interview on Healing the Grieving Heart 
  • “Grieving the Loss of a Loved One”

Revised on 5/2012