Education and Military Service
During his initial higher education, he earned a Certificate in Architectural Construction from Wentworth Institute, Boston, a B.A. in Sociology from Bethany College, Kansas, and a Master of Divinity from Philadelphia Lutheran Theological Seminary. He spent two years in the U.S. Army, with overseas duty in Korea. Pastoral work in New York, Pennsylvania, and California provided years of experience with inner-city situations and a close-at-hand understanding of chemical dependency problems. Along the way he developed skills in community organization, inter-group relations, clinical counseling and group work. Jay Haley and Milton H. Erickson, M.D. were colleagues and very important influences in his life. He is a California-licensed Marriage Family and Child Counselor, and in 1982 he earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Ryokan College, Los Angeles.
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