Hope for Families
Adoption and Counseling Services, Inc.
  Non-Profit Child Placing Agency  


Dr. Kenneth N. Brown LMFT


HOPE FOR FAMILIES
Adoption and Counseling Services Inc.


207½ East Orange Avenue, Suite A
Fort Pierce, FL 34950-4348

Office: (772) 429-3334
PAGER (877) 300-8771
TOLL FREE (866) 773-3334
FAX (772) 429-3336


Web Site: www.hopeforfamilies.org

mender2001@yahoo.com



D.Min., M.Div., Dip.O.P.C., B.Sc., LCMFT

State Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

Clinical Psychotherapist and Counselor

Licensed Christian Marriage Family Therapist

Clinical AAMFT, FAMFT, FAACT Member

Ordained Minister and Pastoral Counselor

State Certified for
Adoption Home Studies

    

    

 

About Dr. Brown

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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