Biography

He completed a three-year residency in adult and geriatric psychiatry for his psychologist license at the former Incarnate Word Hospital in St. Louis Missouri, where he also had the opportunity to create and develop the entire spectrum of outpatient mental health services for the hospital. He spent the next five years as the Program Manager of the partial hospital program and outpatient counseling services. Later, he was promoted to the Director of the Department of Psychiatry for the hospital, managing all of the inpatient and outpatient mental health services of the hospital. He held this position for a couple of years prior to leaving the hospital at the end of 1999 to start his private practice.

He has now been in private practice for the past 25 years, working primarily with adults and geriatric patients. He has had the distinct pleasure of working directly with or consulting with staff on possibly several thousand patients over the past 35 years.