Mental Health Director

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED

The University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, Ph.D. in Counseling

Psychology

St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, M.A. in Clinical Psychology,

B.A. in Economics

PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY POSITIONS

Forensic Psychologist State of Missouri, St. Louis, MO

October 1980 to October 1984

Evaluated individuals charged with violent criminal felonies and testified

in court regarding their competency to stand trial and their responsibility

for the criminal act for which they were charged.

Private Practice Self Employed, St. Louis, MO

October 1984 to December 1997

Conducted psychotherapy and performed psychological assessments with

adolescents and adults in a private practice, outpatient setting. Served

on numerous HMO and PPO provider panels during this time and functioned as

the clinical supervisor in a multi-professional private practice. I also

contracted with the Comprehensive Care Corporation and the Hyland

Behavioral Health System at St. Anthony's Medical Center to conduct

psychological evaluations and perform individual and group therapy in their

Dual Diagnosis, Eating Disorders, Adult and Adolescent Stress, Adult and

Adolescent Substance Abuse, Crisis Intervention, Day Treatment, and

Outpatient programs. In addition, I worked for the St. Louis City Public

School System conducting evaluations for early childhood special education.

Director of Operations Mental Health Network, St. Louis, MO

October 1989 to August 1990

Mental Health Network is a managed mental health care company with

headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana. I directed operations in the

eastern part of Missouri which included, but were not limited to, providing

psychological services, community relations, business development,

professional and support staff supervision, and budget management.

Psychologist Division of Corrections, St. Louis, MO

January, 1998 to September 1999

Provided psychological services for more than one thousand two hundred

(1200) inmates housed in both maximum and medium security settings.

Clinical Director Piney Ridge Center, Waynesville, MO

October 1999 to April 2006

In this position I supervised the clinical services provided by six masters

level therapists, one substance abuse counselor, and one doctoral level

psychology resident in a sixty (60) bed, JCAHO and CHAMPUS approved, long-

term, residential treatment center serving children and adolescents six (6)

to nineteen (19) years of age with psychological and sexual behavior

problems.

Private Practice, Part-time Self Employed, Waynesville, MO

July 2002 to June 2006

Performed individual, group, family, and couples therapy and psychological

testing

Forensic Psychologist State of Missouri, Farmington, MO

April 2006 to October 2011

Coordinated the Forensic Treatment Program (patients committed as not

guilty by reason of insanity or not competent to stand trial) and the Sex

Offender Treatment Program. Performed individual and group therapy and

conducted evaluations for security level placement for both programs.

Evaluated individuals charged with violent criminal felonies and testified

in court regarding their readiness for release.

I retired from the Missouri Department of Mental Health in October 2011.

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