Dr. Kenneth Brown LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Clinical Psychotherapist in the State of Florida to provide counseling services with State License #MT0001805. Dr. Brown is credentialed as a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT #81631), and the Florida Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (FAMFT). Dr. Brown LCMFT is licensed as a Licensed Christian Marriage and Family Therapist/Counselor (CPY 0201-01-1198) in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida through the Florida Association of Christian Counselors and Therapists. He has been ruled an expert witness in Florida and by the Supreme Court of Ontario in Canada to give opinion evidence of mental and relational health. Dr. Brown is a member of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, and is certified as a Level One Critical Incident Stress Manager trained and experienced in assisting police office.

Dr. Brown has a Doctorate of Ministry in Marriage and Family Therapy from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, a Masters of Divinity with concentration in pastoral counseling from the Ontario Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Science focused in psychology from the University of Toronto. Dr. Brown has an Ontario Police College Diploma in Police Sciences, and graduated with top honors. His subsequent numerous courses and training included crisis intervention, negotiation and mediation techniques, multiculturalism, criminal, civil & family law and others from C. O. Bick Metropolitan Toronto Police College and George Brown College. Later, at the University of Guelph, an Intensive Sex Therapy course and an Approved AAMFT Supervisor’s course were completed. Dr. Brown is qualified through courses and/or supervision in a number of personality, mental, emotional, marital and family health assessment instruments and has studied marriage and family therapy in a program

From the Institute of Family Living in Toronto, Dr. Brown has received group training in suicide prevention, trauma and bereavement counseling, adult children of alcoholics, addiction counseling, professional ethics, 12 Step Programs, depression, anxiety, disassociative identity disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, anger and abuse, victimization, codependency, self-care for social workers, and many other topics. Dr. Brown completed a comprehensive internship with the Institute of Family Living and had over 500 hours of supervision from a combination of 8 clinical Association for Marriage and Family Therapy supervisors. He was personally mentored for 8 years by the late Dr. Stan Skarsten, former Chief Social Worker of the Toronto’s prestigious Clarke Mental Health Institute and founder/director of the Institute of Family Living incorporated in 1970. Dr. Brown also studied at L.C. Leadership Institute in Chicago, and trained at Life Exchange Ministries in their conference, workshop

Dr. Brown has held memberships in the Ontario Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counselors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists, the North American Association of Christian Social Workers, the International Police Association, the Metropolitan Toronto Police Association, the Fellowship of Christian Peace Officers, the Institute of Family Living, Hope Counseling and the Family and Pediatric Clinic. Dr. Brown is published in the Blue Line, Peacemaker, MTPA and IFL Network magazines and in the Script Howard Business Journal.

For seven years, Dr. Brown offered clinical supervision for 2nd and 3rd year students in a counseling practicum for a Masters’ Degree program at the Ontario Theological Seminary and the Adlerian Institute of Psychology associated with the University of Chicago. Dr. Kenneth Brown founded and clinically directed Hope Counseling Service with 10 to 12 masters degree level clinical counselors in Durham Region, a suburb of Toronto, for seven years. Dr. Brown served for eight years, as one of the owners and clinical directors of the Institute of Family Living in Toronto, assisting in managing of that agency of 15 to 20 psychotherapists. For three years, Dr. Brown was an associate, marriage and family therapy supervisor and clinical therapist with the Family and Pediatric Clinic in Cocoa Beach, with 8-10 licensed therapists.

Dr. Brown has extensive experience as a former veteran police officer with the Metropolitan Toronto Police Services with special training to handle domestic situations including spousal assaults, disputes, sexual abuse, bereavement notifications and suicide intervention. He assisted in trauma counseling and group suicide interventions in the Durham and Metropolitan Toronto Police forces, the Provincial Correction Metro East Detention Center, and received training with the Salvation Army’s Victims Witness Program. In 1979, Dr. Brown co-founded the Canadian Fellowship of Christian Peace Officers Inc., an organization designed to encourage police officers in their stressful careers which has 1,500 members in over 30 Canadian cities. For 10 years, Dr. Brown edited published the 24 page bi-monthly FCPO Peacemaker magazine with national circulation. For five years he instituted and administered a 24 hour crisis phone line for police officers and their families, coordinating peer counciling.

Dr. Brown received ministerial credentials in 1978 with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, and has served in PAOC church districts and other denominations as a clinical counselor in ministerial staff restoration. Dr. Brown spent two years in missions, first as a missionary in the Caribbean commended by the Brethren Assemblies after attending Literature Crusades Mission School in Chicago, and then as a administrative assistant with the Sudan Interior Mission. For over 25 years, Dr. Brown has served in various Christian ministries and churches in diverse leadership roles and is a member of the Community Chaplain Response Team in Florida. He is a member of the Vero Beach Church of Christ, functions as residential counselor for The Lighthouse, and as a clinical counselor at HOPE COUNSELING. Dr. Brown has spoken to numerous church, police and community groups from coast to coast in Canada and in the States. With honorariums, he frequently lectures on therapeutic issues of

Since commencing private practice in 1987, Dr. Brown has engaged in individual, couple and family counseling. He has counseled over 1800 clients/families in approximately 25,000 hours of clinical practice. Particular areas of interest are Adoption Home Studies, adoption counseling for pre and post placement and family reintegration issues, crisis intervention, anxiety reactions, couple counseling, sex therapy, depression, grief work, suicidal obsessions, victims and abusers of spousal or sexual assault, personal inventories, supervising counseling interns and conducting state approved home studies for adoption. Dr. Brown has written a monthly column entitled, The Family Business, integrating behavioral science and business development, for the Scripps Howard Newspapers and is a frequent guest on local radio show broadcasts covering relational and emotional health issues.

Dr. Brown is available through his instant message pager or office telephone number listed below for Home Study appointments, speaking engagements or to receive referrals for counseling. Dr. Brown’s dear wife, Lynn, manages the correspondence, scheduling, interview process, and data entry of the Home Studies and counseling practice.

For 5 years, as a State Licensed Mental Health Provider, Dr. Brown has been assisting many adoptive parents by completing their Home Studies for both domestic and international adoptions. In August 4th, 2003, Dr. Brown and his dear wife, Lynn, founded their not-for-profit HOPE FOR FAMILIES: ADOPTION AND COUNSELING SERVICES INC. which is licensed in the State of Florida as a Adoption Agency providing a double licensure for the Home Studies. Lynn assists Dr. Brown with the correspondence, scheduling, interviews, compilation and production of the Home Studies and serves with him on the Board of HOPE FOR FAMILIES: ADOPTION AND COUNSELING SERVICES INC. Their goal is to make the Home Study a positive experience in becoming adoptive parents. Their adoption services include Home Studies, post placement reports, resource materials, pre/post placement adoption counseling & personal support. The mission statement of HOPE FOR FAMILIES: ADOPTION AND COUNSELING SERVICES INC. is to provide prompt, professional, private and compassionate home studies for adopting parents throughout Florida at an affordable price.