Dr. Joseph B. Kennedy, Sr.
Director, Crossroads Counseling Center
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Marriage
and Family Therapist
Licensed - State
of California 1964
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Ordained
minister (Elder), United Methodist
Church 1963 (Rt.) |
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Certified and
Commissioned Stephen
Minister & Trainer |
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Certified
Forensic Examiner
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Clinical
Member of AAMFT - American Association of Marriage
and Family Therapists |
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Certified
Diplomate American Psychotherapy
Association
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Charter
member of The American
Association of
Christian Counselors |
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Life Member of
California Marriage & Family
Counseling
Association |
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National Board
of Cognitive Behavioral
Therapists |
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Former Chaplain,
Alpharetta Police Department |
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Former Chaplain
Consultant, Montezuma Police
Department |
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Former Director,
Greater Atlanta Psychological
Services |
Dr. Kennedy has been
actively involved in Pastoral Counseling from 1964 to the present. He was ordained Deacon
1957 in the Western North Carolina Conference and Elder 1963 in the California-Nevada
Conference. He is now honorably retired in the California Nevada Conference and no longer in the active ministry as
a
Methodist pastor.
Dr. Kennedy has been the
Clinical Director of the Area Medical Center, Mississippi; Christian Counseling Center,
California; and The Counseling Center, Medical Center, California. Area medical center in
Lodi, California and The Counseling Center in Salinas, California. He was in private
practice in Marriage Family and Child Counseling in San Diego, California. He also
served The Clinic Fartherest Out, where Dr. Carl and Will Menninger from Kansas, were
consultants.
He has also served as
National Chairman of the Methodist Youth Fellowship, as National Chairman of Worship and
Evangelism, and as Organizing Secretary for the World Assembly of Youth (W.A.Y.) for
the United Nations.
While serving many years in China, he was consultant to four U.S. Presidents on China and
the Middle East; founder and director of The U.S.-China Education Foundation; as well as
an international consulting firm. Dr. Kennedy was the founder and director of
Lifeline, Inc., the first crisis intervention telephone service in the U.S now called
"Contact," where he trained 250 telephone counselors.
He served on the board of directors of Victory Home Rehabilitation Center, Helping Hand,
Inc., a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.
He attended the
University of Alabama, Birmingham Southern University (BA) 1951; Emory University
(M.Divinity) 1955; University of the Pacific for Child Psychology; Pepperdine
University 1967 for Marriage Counseling; and University of Seattle 1995 gaining hours
toward a third doctorate. He holds additional doctoral degrees: Pol.D. (Doctor
of Politics) from Chung-Ang (Centeral) University 1978 Seoul, Korea and Litt.D (Doctor of
Letters), Virginia Tech 1982.
Dr. Kennedy continues to
attend sessions, seminars, and programs to remain current in the developments in his
field. Seminars include Masters and Johnson "Counseling Sexual Problems,"
and seminars for physicians and counselors in Hypnotherapy. In 1996 he studied with Dr.
Edwin Friedman, author of Generation to Generation. In 1997 he studied with
Dr. Dave Hilton (M.D., FAAFP) in "Healing and Wholeness in the Ministry of the
Church." Dr. Kennedy gave the Distinguished Pritchard Lectures at Victory Home
Rehabilitation Center in northern Georgia in 1997. The
sixteen lectures dealt with “Positive Addiction” using his mentor Dr.
William R. Glasser’s book by that name
"Of all the
education I have received, studying the life and methods of the Greatest Counselor, Jesus
Christ, has been the most helpful and rewarding."
- Dr.
Joseph Kennedy
Email:
CrossRoads@sage-usa.net
