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Curricular vitae of
DR.
KENNETH N. BROWN LMFT
( D.MIN.,
M.DIV., DIP. O.P.C., B.SC., L.C.M.F.T., AAMFT CERTIFIED)
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. # 08060100
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, and
the Executive Director for both Hope for Families Adoption
Service Inc., in Fort Pierce which is a non-profit Florida
licensed child placement agency. Dr. Brown has dual
licensure in Florida to conduct International or Domestic
Adoption Home Studies as an adoption agency and LMFT.
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 trained at Life
Exchange Ministries in their conference, workshop, and
internship, to equip him in effective 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 has held memberships in the
Ontario Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the
Christian Association for Psychological Studies, the Ontario
Association of Consultants, Counselors, Psychometrists 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
currently serves on the boards of two non-profit addiction
treatment centers, Daughters of Naomi and Next Step, and
preaches every Sunday night at Hope Ministries Church in Vero
Beach.
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 Service 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. Dr. Brown is currently licensed by the State of
Florida to provide clinical supervision services to Masters
Degree graduates over a 2-3 year term who are gaining clinical
competency to become licensed mental health providers under
Florida Statute 491.
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
34 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 is
uniquely qualified to counsel members of the police and
emergency services community.
Reverent Dr. Brown is 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 also speaks to
churches, police groups or the community on topics of mental
health and spiritual transformation.
Since commencing private practice in 1987,
Dr. Brown has engaged in individual, couple and family
counseling. He has counseled over 2500 clients/families in
approximately 35,000 hours of clinical practice. Particular
areas of interest are birth parent and adoption issues, adoption
counseling for pre and post placement, 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. Dr.
Brown maintains his State licenses and professional
associations, keeps current on core practice competency
requirements, maintains all required Continued Educational
Units, has professional insurance with no claims on record, and
has never had a complaint, question or law suit instituted or
pursued against him at any time.
Dr. Brown was the co-founder of two
adoption agencies and Executive/Clinical Director of three
adoption agencies. In 1999, Dr. Brown was the Clinical Director
helping found Together Ministries which specialized in adoptions
from Brazil. In 2003, Dr. Brown and his wife, Lynn, co-founded
Hope for Families: Adoption and Counseling Services Inc.
# 08060100, a licensed adoption agency which specializes in
adoption home studies and adoptions in Guatemala. In 2004-2005,
Dr. Brown was also the Executive Director of United
Advocates for Families, located in Boca Raton and this
agency specialized in adoptions from Russia and Kazakhstan.
Since 1999, Dr. Brown has successfully completed approximately
1000 home studies for approximately 100 agencies and 36
countries for international adoption. Dr. Brown has completed
approximately 1,000 home studies for adoption since 1999 and
every report received court/agency approval from all the
authorities involved to facilitate the adoption.
Dr. Brown serves as the clinical counselor
and State Approved Supervisor at Hope Counseling
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 two
Christian radio programs that broadcast on WCNO 89.9 FM on
Saturdays at 830 am, and on Sundays at 930 am, all over South
Eastern Florida, and Hope for Families, which is a
Christian television program viewed in 50 cities across the
United States and on Sky Angel satellite. These radio and
television programs combine the best of the behavioral sciences
with a Christian perspective to offer hope to the hurting, but
adoption issues and education are often also addressed.
Dr. Brown can be contacted through the
following information:
Counseling and Adoption office location…
HOPE FOR FAMILIES, ADOPTION SERVICES
207 ½ East Orange Ave., Suite A, Fort Pierce, Florida, 34950
HOPE COUNSELING 207 ½ East
Orange Ave., Suite B, Fort Pierce, Florida, 34950
Office (772) 429-3334 Pager
1-877-300-8771 Fax (772) 429-3336
Web-Sites: hopeforfamilies.org and
hopecounseling.biz
E-Mail: mender2001@yahoo.com
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