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Dr. Benjamin Keyes M.A., Ph.D., Ed.D., D.D., is the Master of Counseling Program Director at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA.
He's had an extensive career in a wide variety of venues including the academia, counseling, ministry, government and private agencies, hospitals, residential treatment centers, partial hospitalization programs, churches, training facilities, and private practice.
Teaching and clinical supervision have always been creative outlets for him and a deep source of joy and satisfaction. In the last few years, research targeted at Dissociative Identity Disorder and both Christian and secular applications to healing has taken most of his time.
He helped start the Center for Trauma Studies at Regent University, whic seeks to train graduate students to be first-responders in situations of natural disasters and/or man-made disasters – practical skills for the real world, deploying them to environments such as Sudan and Darfur. In the summer of 2008 Dr. Keyes traveled to Sudan with Global Aid Network and train community and church leaders. He has also traveled extensively to China with the Colin A. Ross Institute to present training on Trauma Model Therapy.
Dr. Keyes believes that psychotherapy is an art form where the artist must be equipped with a variety of styles or colors to enable them to be a catalyst for positive change. For Christian therapists, He believes this means the calling often entails providing a way for clients to be positively reconciled with God.
His favorite scripture comes from I John 4:8 “. . . for God is Love.”
You can learn more about Dr. Keyes here.