San Joaquin Psychotherapy Center
McCready opened San Joaquin Psychotherapy Center in Fresno, California in 1990, developing a day treatment program based on his integrative milieu model. The center had a unique treatment philosophy, combining elements of psychodynamic theory, humanistic philosophy, and an anti-psychiatric approach. McCready was opposed to use of the medical model in psychology and was an outspoken critic use of diagnosis, electroshock, and psychiatric drugs in psychotherapy treatment. Clients came from all over the world to receive non-medicated psychotherapy and to titrate off of psychiatric drugs.
McCready wanted to open other sites offering the same services with the same philosophy all over the world. He started by opening San Francisco Bay Psychotherapy Center in San Francisco in 2004. He planned to open sites in New York City and Chicago soon after. However, following his death in December, 2004, the doors closed due to financial difficulty in both San Francisco and in Fresno. Under Dr. McCready's supervision and program design, Associated Psychological Health Services was openned North or Chicago in Sheboygan, WI, under the clinical direction of Dr. Toby Tyler Watson, a student of Dr. McCready's. This clinic still operates under Dr. McCready's approach.
The Sequoia Psychotherapy Center was opened in Fresno, California, in March, 2005, by Dr. Mark D. Popper, K. Brent Olsen, and Pepe Santana. It was incorporated to continue the work of San Joaquin Psychotherapy Center after it closed. It is a community-based psychotherapy services center offering traditional outpatient psychotherapy services, psychological testing, and a day treatment program based on McCready's model.
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| Name | McCready, Kevin F. |
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| Date of birth | 1957 |
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| Date of death | 2004 |
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