About the Video Counselor
Bill, TheVideoCounselor, is a Nationally Certified Counselor, and is a licensed clinical mental health counselor practicing in New England.
He currently maintains a private practice, is Clinical Director of an agency Batterers Intervention Group, has twenty years of experience as a counselor, is a very successful mentor to children and their families, and will travel on a scheduled basis to consult individuals, couples, and families. He has a master's degree in counseling psychology and has completed two years of his doctoral degree in clinical psychology.
The Video Counselor website was created to offer hope, insight, and skills for viewers who have had bad experiences in counseling, can't afford counseling, have fears about it, or limited access where they live.
Bill's goal in offering this website is to inform and educate individuals as to the benefits of seeking private counseling in their local areas.
It is our hope that when viewers do meet face-to-face with their local counselor they can maximize their experience by what they may have learned on this website; knowing that the ability to gain insight and skills varies with individuals.
WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
New Hampshire Governors Commission Annual Conference on Domestic & Sexual Violence and Stalking - May 2009
Crisis Prevention Institute, Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Certified Instructor - November 2008
Integrated Trauma Therapy - September 2008
Multi-Cultural Issues Conference by AMHCA (Military Post Traumatic Stress Disorder / Brain Development/Models of Supervision / Diabetes and Depression / Ethics / Addiction and Recovery) - July 2008
School Violence Summit - April 2007
Clinical Supervision, Harvard University - February 2007
School Mental Health, Harvard University - January 2007
Positive Behavior Intervention Systems (PBIS) Workshops - 2005-2007
Dealing with Details of Counseling in School Settings - September 2006
Who Cares for the Caregivers - March 2006
16 Career Clusters Preparing Students for College - December 2005
Emerge Batterers Intervention Training - November 2004
Fear, Anxiety, Worry and Panic - July 2004
AMHCA annual meeting (Alzheimers Disease / Clients with Disability / Spirituality in Counseling / Thinking & Feeling Brain / Domestic Violence Screen) - July 2004
Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy: Ethical Issues - June 2004
Anger, Conflict and Difficult People - February 2002
Brain Neurophysiology - March 2001
Advanced Motivational Interviewing - November 2000
Motivational Interviewing - August 2000
Problem Behaviors in Older Adults - June 2000
Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco Conference - February 2000
Singer-Loomis Type Deployment Inventory - Summer 1998
People with Disabilities and Their Sexuality - Summer 1997
Jungian Dream Workshop Series - Spring 1996
Surviving & Thriving with Difficult Couples - Spring 1996
Solution Focused Therapy Workshop - Summer 1995
Working with Individuals Who Have HIV - Fall 1995
Brief Therapy Training Workshop Fall 1995
Working with Clients Who Have Addictions Fall 1995
Existential Psychology Workshop Series Spring 1995
Parenting Training Summer 1994
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Reduction of Recidivism Among Batterers
2. The Impact of Anger on the Physiology of the Brain
3. The Impact of Anxiety on the Physiology of the Brain
4. Ethical and Practical Applications of Internet / Distal Counseling
Quick Overview of Bill's Experience
- Licensed and a nationally certified counselor.
- 20 years of clinical experience.
- Worked with autistic children and oppositional defiant adolescents who resided in a psychiatric hospital setting.
- Recent focus has been clinical work with a diverse population of individuals, couples and families in not-for-profit agencies, private practice, elementary and middle school settings as well as a university hospital setting.
- Worked with individuals experiencing anxiety, especially social phobia and panic disorder.
- Has counseled and coached firefighters in achieving and maintaining healthy lifestyles through the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) PHLAME study.
- Has clinical and research experience working with individuals in smoking cessation.
- Has worked with obese individuals in preparation for gastric bypass surgery.
- Has worked with sexual minorities on coming out issues, alcohol and drug abuse, depression, and self-confidence.
- Experience with middle-aged and elders who have chronic pain and declining health.
- At-risk youth in elementary and middle school settings.
- Experience and training in anger management.
- Counseled batterers and their victims through his facilitating batterer's intervention groups.
- Victim counseling.