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FLORIDA LICENSED
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST/CLINICAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST (# MT
1805) CLINICAL MEMBER AMERICAN/FLORIDA ASSOCIATION FOR MARRIAGE
& FAMILY THERAPY (#81631)
LICENSED CHRISTIAN COUNSELOR/MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPIST (FACCT)
(CPY 0201-01-1198) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HOPE FOR FAMILIES:
ADOPTION & COUNSELING SERVICES, INC.
#19336300008
ICISF CERTIFIED
CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONIST #13134
Dr. Kenneth
Brown LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
and Clinical Psychotherapist in the State of Florida to
provide counseling services with State License #MT0001805. Dr.
Brown is credentialed as a Clinical Member of the American
Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT #81631),
and the Florida Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (FAMFT).
Dr. Brown LCMFT is licensed as a Licensed Christian Marriage
and Family Therapist/Counselor (CPY 0201-01-1198) through
the Florida Association of Christian Counselors and Therapists.
He has been ruled an expert witness in Florida and by the
Supreme Court of Ontario in Canada to give opinion evidence of
mental and relational health. Dr. Brown is a member of the
International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, and is
certified as a Level One Critical Incident Stress Manager
trained and experienced in assisting police officers and
emergency services personnel in debriefing traumatic events. Dr.
Brown is the Clinical Director of Hope Counseling Inc.,
the Executive Director for Hope for Families Adoption
Services Inc, a non-profit Florida licensed adoption agency,
and President of Hope Broadcasting and Publishing Inc.
Dr. Brown is an approved provider in Florida to conduct
International or Domestic Home Studies with dual licensure.
Dr. Brown has a
Doctorate of Ministry in Marriage and Family Therapy from
Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, a Masters
of Divinity with concentration in pastoral counseling from the
Ontario Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Science focused
in psychology from the University of Toronto. Dr. Brown has an
Ontario Police College Diploma in Police Sciences, and graduated
with top honors. His subsequent numerous courses and training
included crisis intervention, negotiation and mediation
techniques, multiculturalism, criminal, civil & family law and
others from C. O. Bick Metropolitan Toronto Police College and
George Brown College. Later, at the University of Guelph, an
Intensive Sex Therapy course and an Approved AAMFT Supervisor
course were completed. Dr. Brown is qualified in a number of
personality, mental, emotional, marital and family health
assessment instruments and has studied marriage and family
therapy in a program with the Institute for Christian Studies.
From the
Institute of Family Living in Toronto, Dr. Brown has received
group training in suicide prevention, trauma and bereavement
counseling, adult children of alcoholics, addiction counseling,
professional ethics, 12 Step Programs, depression, anxiety,
disassociative identity disorder, post traumatic stress
disorder, anger and abuse, victimization, codependency,
self-care for social workers, and many other topics. Dr. Brown
completed a comprehensive internship with the Institute of
Family Living and had over 500 hours of supervision from a
combination of 8 clinical Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy supervisors. Dr. Brown was personally mentored for 8
years by the late Dr. Stan Skarsten, former Chief Social Worker
of the Toronto’s prestigious Clarke Mental Health Institute, the
former founder/director of the Institute of Family Living
incorporated in 1970. Dr. Brown also studied at L.C. Leadership
Institute in Chicago, and at Life Exchange Ministries in their
conference, workshop, and internship, in pastoral counseling.
Dr. Brown received training with the Masters and Johnson Clinic
in New Orleans for the treatment of sexual addictions and
through supervision & numerous seminars/workshops in adoption.
Dr. Brown annually completes the continuing educational
licensing requirements for the Florida LMT, AAMFT and the
Florida DCF review for Executive Director of a Licensed Child
Placing Agency.
Dr. Brown has
held memberships in the Ontario Association for Marriage and
Family Therapy, the Christian Association for Psychological
Studies, the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counselors,
Psychometrics and Psychotherapists, the North American
Association of Christian Social Workers, the International
Police Association, the Metropolitan Toronto Police Association,
the Fellowship of Christian Peace Officers, the Institute of
Family Living, Hope Counseling and the Family and Pediatric
Clinic. Dr. Brown is published in the Blue Line, Peacemaker,
MTPA and IFL Network magazines and in the Script Howard Business
Journals. He has recently served on the boards of two non-profit
addiction treatment centers, Daughters of Naomi and Next Step,
and written columns for the local newspapers and articles for
various magazines on topics of mental and relational health.
For seven years,
Dr. Brown offered clinical supervision for 2nd and 3rd
year students in a counseling practicum for a Masters™ Degree
program at the Ontario Theological Seminary and the Adlerian
Institute of Psychology associated with the University of
Chicago. Dr. Kenneth Brown founded and clinically directed
Hope Counseling Services with 10 to 12 Masters Degree
level clinical counselors in Toronto, for seven years and
relocated to Florida in 1999. Dr. Brown served for eight years,
as one of the owners and clinical directors of the Institute of
Family Living in Toronto, assisting in managing of that agency
of 15 to 20 psychotherapists. For three years, Dr. Brown was an
associate, marriage and family therapy supervisor and clinical
therapist with the Family and Pediatric Clinic in Cocoa Beach,
with 8-10 therapists. In 2003, Dr. Brown founded Hope for
Families: Adoption and Counseling Services Inc., a
licensed adoption agency that specializes in providing adoption
and custody home study services for all of Florida and adoptions
in the US.
Professional Credentials of Dr. Kenneth N. Brown LMFT
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Dr. Brown has
extensive experience as a former veteran police officer with the
Metropolitan Toronto Police Services with special training to
handle domestic situations including spousal assaults, disputes,
sexual abuse, bereavement notifications and suicide
intervention. He assisted in trauma counseling and group suicide
interventions in the Durham and Metropolitan Toronto Police
forces, the Provincial Correction Metro East Detention Center,
and received training with the Salvation Army’s Victims Witness
Program. In 1979, Dr. Brown co-founded the Canadian Fellowship
of Christian Peace Officers Inc., an organization designed to
encourage police officers in their stressful careers, which has
1,500 members in over 30 Canadian cities. For 10 years, Dr.
Brown edited published the 24 page bi-monthly FCPO Peacemaker
magazine with national circulation. For five years he instituted
and administered a 24 hour crisis phone line for police officers
and their families, coordinating peer counseling across Canada,
and trained the FCPO police officers to assist in this crisis
counseling. Dr. Brown for several years was a columnist in the
Toronto Police Association magazine on topics critical to
managing the stresses inherent in policing and helping the
police family. Dr. Brown continues to counsel members of the
local police and emergency services community when requested.
Reverent
Dr. Brown is also an ordained minister with Evangel Fellowship
International, received ministerial credentials in 1978
with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, has served in PAOC
church districts and other denominations as a clinical counselor
in ministerial staff restoration and is a member of Central
Assembly Church in Vero Beach. Dr. Brown spent two years in
missions, first as a missionary in the Caribbean commended by
the Brethren Assemblies after attending Literature Crusades
Mission School in Chicago, and then as an administrative
assistant with the Sudan Interior Mission. For over 25 years,
Dr. Brown has served in various Christian ministries and
churches in diverse leadership roles and is a member of the
Community Chaplain Response Team in Florida. Dr. Brown has
spoken to numerous church, police and community groups coast to
coast in Canada and the States, frequently lecturing on
therapeutic issues of recovery or prevention, leads lively and
helpful couple or family retreats, workshops, marriage
enrichments, and marital preparation with his
informative Mending Minds, Healing Hearts, Restoring
Relationships Seminars series. Dr. Brown regularly
speaks to churches, police groups or the community on helpful
topics on mental health, parenting and marital enhancement.
Since commencing
private practice in 1987, Dr. Brown has engaged in
individual, couple and family counseling. He has counseled
over 2750 clients/families in approximately 38,000 hours of
clinical practice. Particular areas of interest are adoption
home studies, adoption counseling for pre and post placement and
family reintegration issues, crisis intervention, anxiety
reactions, couple counseling, sex therapy, depression, grief
work, suicidal obsessions, victims and abusers of spousal or
sexual assault, personal inventories and supervising counseling
interns. Traveling throughout the State of Florida, Dr. Brown
has completed over 1,000 home studies assisting adopting
families since 1999 and every report received court/agency
approval. Dr. Brown is the co-founder and Executive Director
of the adoption agencies, Hope for Families: Adoption and
Counseling Services Inc., which specializes in adoption
home studies throughout Florida and adoptions in the US. Dr.
Brown was also the former Executive Director for both
United Advocates for Families, located in Boca Raton and
this agency specialized in adoptions from Russia and Kazakhstan
and Together Ministries which specialized in
adoptions from Brazil. Dr. Brown has successfully completed
domestic and international home studies for approximately 40
States for domestic adoption and 37 countries for international
adoption for 70 agencies.
Dr. Brown serves
as the clinical director, licensed counselor and State Approved
Supervisor at Hope Counseling Inc. and Executive
Director for Hope for Families: Adoption and Counseling
Services Inc., located in Fort Pierce. Dr. Brown is
available through his instant message pager or office telephone
number listed below for Adoption Home Study appointments,
speaking engagements or to receive referrals for counseling. Dr.
Brown’s dear wife, Lynn, manages the correspondence, scheduling,
data entry of the Home Studies and counseling practice. Lynn
joins with Dr. Brown in the adoption home visits all over
Florida to assist in the interview process and background
clearances. Together, they host and produce a Christian radio
program that broadcast on WCNO 89.9 FM on Saturdays at 830 Am,
all over South Eastern Florida, and Hope for Families television
program viewed in 50 cities across the United States and on Sky
Angel satellite viewed at 630 Pm every Friday evening through
Hope Broadcasting and Publishing Inc..
Dr. Brown can be contacted through the
following information:
Office location:
HOPE FOR FAMILIES ADOPTION SERVICES
INC. 207 ˝ East Orange Ave., Suite A, Fort Pierce,
Florida, 34950
HOPE COUNSELING INC. 207 ˝
East Orange Ave., Suite B, Fort Pierce, Florida,
34950
HOPE BROADCASTING AND
PUBLISHING INC 207 ˝ East Orange Ave., Suite E, Fort
Pierce, Florida, 34950
Office (772) 429-3334 Pager
1-877-300-8771 Fax (772) 429-3336
Web-Sites:
HopeForFamilies.org
HopeCounseling.biz
HopeBroadcasting.org
E-Mail: mender2001@yahoo.com
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