Dr. Jim O'Neill, LPC
My Professional Services
Office Location
JAMES H. O’NEILL, EDD, LPC
**** *. ********* ****** *****, Suite 512
Metairie, LA 70002-3454
504-***-**** (Office)
504-***-**** (Cellphone)
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SKILLS
Has maintained a full-time private practice of individual, couple, family and group psychotherapy (30 years)
Experienced in working
with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Critical Incident
Response Specialist - Crisis Care Network (6 years)
Member of DART (Disaster Assistance
Response Team)Adjunct faculty member of Loyola University’s Institute for Ministry, teaching the graduate courses; Introduction
to Pastoral Care and Counseling, Spirituality for Ministers & Family Systems, and the undergraduate courses; Psychology
and Religion & Spirituality in the Workplace (20 years)
Presented numerous continuing education
workshops for other professionals and lectures, workshops, and seminars on integrating masculine and feminine energies, men’s
issues, marriage, parenting and other issues related to mental health (25 years)
Facilitated small and large group community building workshops and retreats
(20 years)
Served as Director
of a large Pastoral Counseling Center in New Orleans, including administrative and clinical supervision of staff (10 years)
Served as consultant for an innovative program that facilitated ex-offenders’
re-entry to society as contributing members (10 years)
CREDENTIALS
Licensed
Professional Counselor (LPC #138), State of LouisianaApproved Supervisor (#8234), American Association for Marriage
and Family TherapyFellow, American Association of Pastoral Counselors (#925)Member, Louisiana Association of Counselors (LCA) EDUCATION
1982 Doctor
of Education in Psychology and
Counseling (EDD), New Orleans Baptist
Theological Seminary
1970 Master
of Divinity (MDIV), Notre Dame
Seminary: New Orleans, LA
1968
Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB)
Gregorian University: Rome, Italy
1965 Bachelor of Philosophy (BA),
Notre Dame Seminary: New Orleans, LA
WORK EXPERIENCE
1977 to date: Private
practice of pastoral psychotherapy treating:
- individuals suffering from depression, anxiety, grief, relationship
difficulties, mid-life crises, and spiritual/vocational crises;
- couples stuck in unsatisfying patterns of relating and/or those wanting growth in their relationship;
- families pained by unresolved conflicts especially during
the developmental crisis of adolescence;
- organizations
and groups that need facilitation
to maximize potential, resolve conflicts,
and build healthy relationships.
1992 to date:
- Adjunct Faculty member of Loyola University’s Institute
for Ministry 1991 to date
- Facilitator of Men’s Retreats
and Elder of the New Orleans Men’s Center 1992 to date
- Consultant
for Tulane University’s Project Return 1992 to 2002:
- Pastoral Counselor, then Director, then Executive Director of the
Pastoral Counseling Center of Southern Baptist Hospital 1977 to 1991
-
Director of the Pastoral Department of Notre Dame Seminary and Professor
of Pastoral Theology 1973 to 1977
- Pastoral Associate
of Our Lady of Divine Providence Church 1969 to 1973
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Past President of the Louisiana Association for Marriage and
Family TherapyRecipient of Distinguished Service Award from the Louisiana
Association for Marriage and Family TherapyWorkshop Presenter: Inviting New Images
of Marriage in Marital TherapyPast Member of the Board of Directors of the CG Jung
Society of New Orleans and lecturer: "The New Dance: Emergence and Convergence of Feminine and Masculine Energies"
and "The Sacred Circle"Co-facilitator and Elder of 15 New Orleans Men’s
Center retreatsPast Member of the Professional Concerns Committee of the American Association
of Pastoral Counselors, Southwest RegionCo-creator of "Finding Your Way back Home - the Place that Storms can't Destroy", a recovery workshop
for Hurricane survivorsSeminar Presentor: "How Mindfulness
of Attachment and Attunement Facilitates Therapeutic Healing"
Dr. James H. O'Neill, LPC
*3330 W.
Esplanade Avenue South*Suite 512
*Metairie*LA*70002-3454
1-504-***-**** (office)
1-504-***-**** (cellphone)