I provide general psychological services to outpatients through the Area Mental Health Center, a Kansas licensed community mental health center where I serve as the Region III Director. Region III serves the rural and frontier counties of Grant, Stanton and Morton. Types of issues typically encountered include depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, adjustment disorders, marital problems, stress related problems, and so forth. Schizophrenia and delusional disorders are also seen.

Additional therapy and assessment are provided on a case-by-case basis through Lewis Psychological Services, my limited private practice. Services are available both in the home and in the office provided that they do not conflict with other professional agreements and contracts.

My psychotherapy approach emphasizes cognitive-behavioral models, such as those by Ellis, Beck and Meichenbaum. Cognitive therapy is eclectically mixed within an existential framework, such as reflected in the work of Viktor Frankl. I accept the Franklian concept of a will to meaning and believe that hard work is often necessary for meaning to be found. Hence, the goal of psychotherapy is to help create conditions where individual meaning may be realized through the development of thoughts and behaviors which favor its discovery.

My graduate preparation was at the Marshall University Department of Psychology, a strongly cognitive-behavioral school, offering a terminal masters degree in clinical psychology. I feel fortunate to have been in the classrooms of Donald Chezik, Joseph Wyatt and Steven Cody. I am honored to have met the great Albert Ellis and to have received additional training in psychotherapy through the Albert Ellis Institute. More recently, I have found my thinking to closely parallel that of Viktor Frankl. I coined the term "meaning-centered cognitive therapy" before learning that Frankl's therapy is often called "meaning-centered therapy." I have now become a member of the Viktor Frankl Institute for Logotherapy and am taking additional training through that fine organization.

In progress: Ph.D. in Jewish-Christian Studies
Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois

1986: M.A. in Clinical Psychology
Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia

1984: B.A. in Psychology
Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia

Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist
by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board

Licensed Masters Level Psychologist
by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board

Nationally Certified Psychologist
by the Professional Psychologist Certification Board

Primary Certificate in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
by the Albert Ellis Institute