Understanding and Overcoming Depression, Anxiety, and Stress

A part of the Blueprint for Men's Health series of publications from Men's Health Network.

Authors, Contributors, and Advisors

The Advisory Board of Your Head: An Owner's Manual is a group of men and women-psychiatrists, physicians, psychologists, public health experts, social workers, and advocates for men's health-working together toward the common goal of improving the health, longevity, and quality of life for men and their families from all walks of life.


Armin Brott, a spokesman for the Men's Health Network, has written about men's health for many national publications. He's also the best-selling author of seven books on fatherhood, which have helped millions of men around the world become the fathers they want to be and that their children need them to be. Mr. Brott is the lead author for the Blueprint for Men’s Health series of publications from Men’s Health Network

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Harry Howitt, PhD, USAF Col. Ret. is Past President, Air Force Society of Clinical Psychologists. He is Chief, Community Behavioral Health Service, Brook Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Dr. Howitt is former Commander (Air Force Colonel), Neurobehavioral Health Squadron, Wilford Hall Medical Center Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.


Salvatore J. Giorgianni, PharmD is Assistant Professor and Director of Experiential Education and Development at Belmont University School of Pharmacy. Dr. Giorgianni is an expert in men's health and is a registered pharmacist. He has authored, co-authored or presented some 200 works in health care, industry regulation and business. He is an advisor and board member to several health advocacy associations including Men's Health Network; American Osteopathic Medical Foundation; Kappa Psi Scholarship Foundation; Nurse Practitioner Health Care Foundation and the National Association for Continence. Dr. Giorgianni has also directed several publications, including the Pfizer Careers In Health Care series and The Pfizer Journal: Perspectives in Health Care and Biomedical Research as Editor in Chief.


Scott Williams is Vice President of Professional Relations and Public Policy of Men’s Health Network and Contributing Editor to the American Journal of Men’s Health. In his position at MHN, Scott supervises the formulation of strategic disease awareness and educational outreach programs being marketed to men and their families nationwide targeting employers, faith-based, retail sector, and community health centers. His areas of responsibility include cultivating and sustaining relationships with Fortune 500 cliental, PR agencies, professional/amateur sports associations and teams, physician key opinion leaders, federal government agencies, congressional leaders, and non profit/patient advocacy organizations that impact health education, promotion, and policy.

Scott’s speaking engagements have included: Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – “Prevention and Men’s Health” Massachusetts Medical Society – “The Politics of Men’s Health” World Congress on Men’s Health – “The Politics of Men’s Health” (Vienna, Austria) Winnebago Tribe/Indian Health Service – “Prevention for Men and Their Families”


Jean Bonhomme, MD, MPH is cofounder, National Black Men's Health Network and member of the Board of Directors of Men's Health Network. He is Board certified, Public Health and General Preventive Medicine and considered an expert on minority health, AIDS, and addiction. Considered one of the key thought leaders in men’s health, Dr. Bonhomme is Founder of the National Black Men's Health Network and an expert on minority health, addictions, AIDS, and the effect that family relationships have on men and their health. Dr. Bonhomme is a member of the Men’s Health Network Board of Directors.


Alphonso Gibbs, Jr., MSW is past Project Coordinator for Health Disparities in End-of-Life Care, and Men’s Health Issues within the Human Rights and International Affairs Division at the National Association of Social Workers. He has served as Deputy Commissioner with Baltimore City Health Department where he oversaw the Men’s Health Center, created to address health care issues of men in Baltimore who were either uninsured or underinsured. Previous to that position, he was Deputy Health Officer with Saginaw County Department of Public Health Officer with Saginaw County Department of Public Health, Saginaw, Michigan


Demetrius J. Porche, DNS, RN, FNP, CS is Professor and Dean of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana School of Nursing. He holds an appointment also in the School of Public Health at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. He is certified as a Clinical Specialist in Community Health Nursing and Family Nurse Practitioner.

Dr. Porche is currently the Chief Editor of American Journal of Men’s Health and the Associate Editor of the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS for 10 years. Dr. Porche serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. He is currently the national President of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing. He also serves at the national level on the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association and serves as Chair of the Public Health Nursing Section Development Committee. He is a member of the Association of Community Health Nurse Educator's Research Committee.


Francisco Semião, MS, MPH is Senior Manager, Grants Management Office, Inova Health System and is Vice-President, Marcelino Pan y Vino, Inc., an organization working to improve access to organ donations and other services in many different countries, including the United States, El Salvador, Bolivia, Colombia and more. During his health promotion career he became concerned with the high level of physical inactivity and poor nutrition in the minority population in the District of Columbia. He has volunteered at La Clinica del Pueblo’s health fairs where much of the District’s indigent and undocumented Hispanic/Latino population go to get their health services and sought to raise awareness on the risks of physical inactivity in the community by writing articles for Spanish language newspapers.

He worked with the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 1991 to establish a local grassroots effort in the District of Columbia as part of Chairman Arnold Schwarzenegger’s agenda. he has been active in the promotion of healthy lifestyles through his involvement with the dissemination and implementation of the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Salud Para Su Corazón (Health for Your Heart) through The National Council of La Raza’s cardiovascular disease prevention program, which reached Hispanics/Latinos of low socio-economic status and at high-risk in six states.

Mr. Semião’s extra curricular activities include serving as adjunct faculty at Marymount University’s School of Health Professions and serves on the Advisory Board of the ACS Hispanic Initiative. He also advises the Men's Health Network on Hispanic health issues, and has been named a spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise.


David H. Gremillion, MD, FACP is the Director of the Rotating Residency Program at the Kameda Medical Center in Kamogawa City, Japan. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Men's Health Network and is Consultant to the Secretary of Labor, OSHA Blood Borne Task Force. Dr. Gremillion is an expert on men’s health, infectious diseases, AIDS, and issues surrounding domestic violence and suicide. Dr. Gremillion is past president of the Society of Air Force Physicians and Special Advisor (infectious diseases) to the USAF Surgeon General.


Betty Gallo is Founder and Director of Public Outreach and Government Relations at the Dean and Betty Gallo Prostate Cancer Center at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. She is cofounder of Women Against Prostate Cancer and the National Prostate Cancer Coalition. Topics: Role of Women in Men’s Health, Prostate Cancer. Mrs. Gallo has been a tireless advocate for men's health since the death of her husband, Congressman Dean Gallo, of prostate cancer in 1994.


Al Cors, Jr. serves as Policy Director for the Senior Center for Health and Security, RetireSafe's related foundation. He has been a frequent public speaker on health care and prescription drug safety issues of great importance to seniors. In coalition with America's leading patient advocate groups, Cors works daily to enhance the lives of older Americans. He is RetireSafe's Director of Government Affairs. Cors, a thirty-nine-year veteran of legislative campaigns on Capitol Hill, and in most of the 50 state capitols, is the lead legislative advocate for RetireSafe's nearly 400,000 plus senior-citizen supporters across America.


David Arnaudo, MBA had a distinguished 41 year Federal career including a position at The Executive Office of the President. Following graduate work at the University of Michigan and Georgetown Law School, his career began with policy and research at the Upper Great Lakes Regional Commission, and followed by positions at The Economic Development Administration and The Office of the Secretary of Commerce. These were followed by positions at Social and Rehabilitation Service, Social Security Administration, and The Office of Child Support Enforcement. His most recent work involved access and visitation for fathers, work program for fathers and marriage encouragement. He has given considerable attention to men's health, including the psychological implications of government intervention, in terms of family development and re-unification, medical support enforcement and the interface of cash and medical assistance.


John Guidubaldi, DEd, LP, LPCC is a retired psychologist, counselor, and university professor. He was the originator and editor of the School Psychology Digest (now the School Psychology Review), and of Highlights Corporation's Newsletter of Parenting. He is co-author of The Battelle Developmental Inventory and the Parenting Satisfaction Scale. His nationwide, large-scale research projects on divorce and custody relationships led to his appointments as a U.S. Commissioner of Child and Family Welfare, and as a member of the Ohio Supreme Court Family Law Task Force.


Erik Bohlin, MA, LMHC has twenty years of experience working with men and their families in private practice. He specializes in addiction recovery, depression and anxiety. Erik is a Nationally Certified Counselor through NBCC and is also a Master Addictions Counselor through NAADAC. He speaks both locally and nationally on mental health issues.


Ryan Cooper, a spokesman for the Men's Health Network, is an attorney in New York City. He has been associated with MHN since June of 2002, working as an advocate in Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Boston and New York. Ryan's dedication to the health of men and their families was influenced by the untimely death of his father.


Rick Doblin, PhD is the founder and president of MAPS. His dissertation (Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government) was on "The Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana," and his master's thesis (Harvard) focused on the attitudes and experiences of oncologists concerning the medical use of marijuana. His undergraduate thesis (New College of Florida) was a twenty-five year follow-up to the classic Good Friday Experiment, which evaluated the potential of psychedelic drugs to catalyze religious experiences. He has also conducted a thirty-four year follow-up study to Tim Leary's Concord Prison experiment.


Himansu K. Basu, MBBS, FRCS, FRCOG, PhD is Chairman, International Fellowship of Rotarian Physicians, a global network of Physicians dedicated to health related issues. The Fellowship partners with Men's Health Network to promote the health of families around the globe. He is consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist and Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of London in Hospitals in Kent, England. He is Executive council member and Chairman of Committees, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Past President of his section of the Royal Society of Medicine, Past President of South Gynaecological Society. He is holder of many undergraduate and postgraduate awards including the coveted Blair Bell Lectureship of the Royal College. He has published over 30 articles in refereed journals. Dr. Basu is a Board member of the Andropause Society, an international body for promotion of men’s health. He lectures on the topic of andropause.


Theresa Morrow is the Director of Marketing and External Affairs for Men’s Health Network. Ms. Morrow has executed a number of successful events and programs from symposia to health screenings around the country. She has been key in building Women Against Prostate Cancer and Healthy Sundays, two of MHN key projects. Prior to working at MHN she held a marketing position at American Cancer Society in Cincinnati, Ohio.


Brian Dodge, PhD is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Applied Health Science and Associate Director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University. He completed his NIMH-sponsored postdoctoral training in the at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. A proud alumnus, he re-joined the faculty of Indiana University in 2007. Dr. Dodge’s research and training have focused on various social and behavioral aspects of sexual health in relation to HIV/STI and other facets of overall well-being. Current areas of interest include bisexuality and its potential relationships to risk and the ongoing role of male condoms in sexual health promotion.


Richard Kennedy, MD is Senior Medical Officer of the World Bank and I.M.F. in Washington, DC. To complement a well-established women's health initiative, he began a men's health awareness program at the World Bank. Dr. Kennedy’s His official capacity has led him to survey the medical facilities available to World Bank and I.M.F. employees in numerous countries and those travels have provided him the opportunity to examine health care in developing countries. His outreach efforts include talks to nondenominational study groups and other employee gatherings in the DC area.


Karla Ortiz, CHES is a health education specialist for the Men’s Health Network and has a background in fitness management and health promotions. She specializes in educating individuals of varying ethnicities, genders and ages. Ms. Ortiz coordinates MHN’s workplace programs, health events, and conference activities.


Gordon E. Finley, PhD received his PhD in Social Relations from Harvard University. Previously he taught at the Universities of British Columbia, Toronto, and California at Berkeley (as a visitor). He has published extensively in peer-reviewed research journals with his most recent work focusing on fatherhood and divorce. His interests include family, parenting, and divorce.


Miles Groth, PhD is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Wagner College in New York. He chaired his department for six years and directed the Honors Program at the college for seven years. Dr. Groth has lectured residents in psychiatry on integrating psychodynamic psychotherapy with traditional inpatient treatment. He trained as a psychoanalyst in New York and has been in private practice since 1977. Dr. Groth is the author of three books, chapters in five books, twenty-six articles and fifty book reviews in nineteen different peer-reviewed journals. He is the editor of two journals, International Journal of Men’s Health and THYMOS: Journal of Boyhood Studies, and book acquisitions editor for the Men’s Studies Press.


Michael E. Lamb, PhD is Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1976 and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Goteborg Sweden (1995) and East Anglia (2006). He is former Head, Section on Social and Emotional Development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Science in Bethesda, Maryland. He has researched and written about social and emotional development, especially in infancy and early childhood; the development and importance of mother- and father-child relationships; the determinants and consequences of adaptive and maladaptive parental behavior, including child abuse; children’s testimony; and applied developmental psychology. The Association for Psychological Science gave him the 2003/4 James McKeen Cattell Award for Lifetime Contributions to Applied Psychological Research.


Marika Ripke, PhD is the Director of Hawaii’s Kids Count, a national and state-by-state initiative funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that tracks the well-being of children and families over time on various health, economic, and educational outcomes. Dr. Ripke was an advisor to the Father’s Connection group counseling program in Austin, Texas and is a member of the Governor’s Fatherhood Commission in Hawaii. She received her PhD in Human Development and Family Sciences, and her Masters of Arts degree in Child Development and Family Relationships. Dr. Ripke is also a staff member of the Center on the Family at the University of Hawaii, where she researches and reports on issues such as poverty, homelessness, and ethnic diversity. She has authored several publications, including The Impact of Welfare Reform on the Educational Outcomes of Parents and Children and How Poverty Affects Children. She is co-editor of the book, Middle Childhood: A Window of Opportunity.


James A. Morning, MSgt, USAF Ret. is the Delaware state coordinator for Men's Health Network.  He is involved with various fraternal groups working to improve the health and wellbeing of men and their families. He is a member of the Commission On Family Law for the state of Delaware whose purpose is to study and evaluate the domestic relations laws for the State of Delaware.


Christopher Kilmartin, PhD is a Professor of Psychology at The University of Mary Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a licensed clinical psychologist who has a great deal of experience consulting with businesses, college students, human services workers, and counselors. In 2006, he was named Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Gender Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, for 2006-07. He is President of Division 51 of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity. He is author of The Masculine Self (3rd edition, Sloan, 2007), which is also being translated in Korea. Men’s Violence Against Women: Theory, Research, and Activism (co-authored by Julie Allison, Ph.D., Erlbaum, 2007) is his most recent book. The Pain behind the Mask: Overcoming Masculine Depression (co-author, John Lynch, Ph.D.) was published by Haworth in 1999 and translated into Hebrew in 2004. Sexual Assault in Context: Teaching College Men about Gender (2005, Erlbaum) is a manual based on his consultation experiences.


Jordan I. Kosberg, PhD, ACSW has been The University of Alabama Endowed Chair
of Social Work since 1999. He has taught at universities in Florida, Ohio, and California, as well as in China and Hong Kong, and was the 2002 Visiting TOWER Fellow of the New Zealand Institute for Research on Ageing at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a Fellow of The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE). Dr. Kosberg served for a decade as grant reviewer for an Initial Review Group at the National Institute on Mental Health and served on the National Institute on Aging Developmental Research of Elder Mistreatment’s Peer Review Panel. He is editor or co-editor of six books (including Elderly Men: Special Problems and Professional Challenges and Abuse of Older Men), and author or co- author of 25 book chapters and over 100 journal articles. While in Alabama, Dr. Kosberg has been a Co-Principle Investigator for two research projects on family caregiving funded by the National Institute on Aging and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Dr. Kosberg is former Board Member for the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education – Social Work (AGE-SW) and was awarded the Association’s Career Achievement Award in 2000. He helped establish the Gerontological Society of America’s Special Interest Group on Men. In 2004, he was an invited participant at an interdisciplinary workshop on Promoting Men’s health sponsored by the International Longevity Center –USA. In 2008, he helped coordinate the First National Conference on Social Work With and For Men at the University of Alabama that drew speakers and presenters from over 25 different states.


Brandon Leonard, MA is a graduate of the Master's program in International Development Studies with a concentration in Global Health at the George Washington University, with an undergraduate background in foreign affairs and Spanish. Before enrolling in graduate school, he served for two years as a policy analyst for the Governor's Office in Virginia, focusing on community integration for people with disabilities. Brandon has also worked with the Institute for Alternative Futures, where he conducted research on state and national health care reform.


Greg Millan, Ass.Dip.SW is a social work trained health educator with many years experience in the men’s health promotion area developing and implementing many workshop programs and community events and producing resources covering a wide range of male health and wellbeing issues. He is currently a Men's Health Consultant living in Newcastle, Australia. Greg is currently involved in both national and local projects and has been a men's health writer for various publications over the last nine years.


Susan Milstein, EdD, CHES is an associate professor in the Department of Health Enhancement, Exercise Science and Physical Education at Montgomery College. She is an expert on stress, a Certified Health Education Specialist, an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, and a certified R.A.D. for men instructor. Dr. Milstein was named “Emerging Professional” by The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.


John Halpern, MD is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of Alcohol & Drug Abuse Research, Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital. He is on the Editorial Board of CNS News. He has authored Treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and coauthored Now is the Time for AAPL to Demonstrate Leadership by Advocating Positions of Social Importance, Hallucinogens on the Internet: A Vast New Source of Underground Drug Information, Use of Schizophrenia as a Metaphor in U.S. Newspapers, Response of cluster headache to psilocybin and LSD, and Diminished Interleukin-6 Response to Proinflammatory Challenge in Men and Women after Intravenous Cocaine Administration. Dr. Halpern completed peer review work for Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Social Science & Medicine, American Journal of Psychiatry, and Archives of General Psychiatry.


Judy Seals-Togbo is the Director of Men’s Health Network’s Memphis, Tennessee office. She is the founder of the first MHN Support Group in Tennessee and a founding board member for Urban Health Education Supporter Services (UHESS). Her efforts include outreach services and providing health education for the underserved men of the Mid-South area. She is a facilitator for UsToo, the Carin’ & Sharin’ Breast Cancer Support Group and is a Koman Grant recipient. Ms. Togbo is on the steering committee of Women Against Prostate Cancer.


Jerry Sachs, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Washington, DC and Maryland. He has 25 years experience working with men and is director of Men's Counseling Service, a counseling service for men experiencing a variety of stressors due to work, family and relationship issues. He is past director of Father Focus, an organization to support fathers. He works with individuals and has led many groups for men and fathers.


Jim Sniechowski, PhD and Judith Sherven, PhD are a husband and wife psychology team specializing in relationships, human behavior, and intimacy and the best selling authors of five books on relationships. As guest experts they've been on over 1500 television and radio shows including Oprah, The View, 48 Hours, CNN, Canada AM, and The Daily Buzz. Jim is founder of The Menswork Center and a co-founder of the Men's Health Network while Judith, a clinical psychologist, has worked with thousands of men and women in her years of private practice. Judith & Jim have worked with approximately 100,000 singles and couples in their relationship trainings, workshops, seminars, and lectures, as well as corporate consultation, nationally and overseas.


Dickson Awah, MPH is an International Medical Student working towards MD degree at Medical University of Lodz, Polan and a voluntary quality assurance consultant at Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC. He holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Systems Policy and Strategic Management with Minor in Behaviors from State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany, NY; Two Bachelors of Science degrees (BS Biology/Pre-med from SUNY at Albany, NY and BS Biochemistry from University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé-Cameroon.

Mr. Awah has served in the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Patient Safety Center as Project Coordinator for a committee that created the first ever Resource Toolkit for Rural Patient Safety in New York State and beyond. Prior to his arrival in New York , Mr. Awah had work in several executive/outreach capacities in the corporate world as well as in national and international humanitarian organizations. Namely: The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)/Cameroon National Association for Family Welfare (CAMNAFAW), Youth Development Foundation (YDF) Cameroon, and Christian Fellowship Movements.


Alicia Babenco Saunders, PhD is a leading authority on sexual issues, maintains a private practice and conducts seminars on sexual health. As part of a series on Sexual Healing, Dr. Saunders was interviewed by Barbara Walters on the View , where she shared findings from her nationwide research on sexual satisfaction. She is a board certified Sex Therapist and Sexologist as well as a licensed counselor by the NJ Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.


Robert Zettler, MBA has been the administrator of the Illinois Prostate and Testicular Cancer Program since it was formed in 1999 and also serves as the lead person for the Illinois Department of Public Health on men’s health issues. Zettler has worked the past 30 years in public health and health promotion programs and services through his involvement in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, including the Charles W. Christie Foundation and other health care organizations.


Faith R. Protsman, MD is the owner and director of the Center for Stress Management in Gilroy, CA. Over the past 15 years, she has been involved in developing programs for Stress Management in healthcare, corporate, and military settings. She has advocated for the realization of stress effects on health and wellbeing, and actively incorporates these issues into her current medical practice.


Robert Janssen is employed as an administrator in the Public Health sector. He has developed several innovative men’s health programs for the Spanish-speaking, African American, and general populations of various ages. He is active in the community and has served on a number of community, government and corporate boards and committees, and professional organizations.


Lea Perritt, PhD is a Licensed Psychologist in Kentucky. She works with people of all ages, most of whom are going through depression or anxiety related to stressful relationships at home or at work. Dr. Perritt sees many clients through Employee Assistance Programs. She also does volunteer mental health work with the Red Cross during and following various disasters around the country and is active with several organizations that deal with men's mental health issues.


Dr. Jerry Arthur-Wong is a Registered Clinical Counselor who specializes in working with men with emotional challenges of divorce, anger and depression. He is the Executive Director of the BC Men's Resource Centre and the President of the Men's Health Society of BC in Vancouver, Canada.


Perry Karfunkel, MD, PhD is a primary care Internist in practice at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA. Eighty five percent of his primary care patients are men, which has lead to a realization that most men know very little about their own health care needs and health care risks. His particular interest is in trying to deal with Metabolic Syndrome issues for men, particularly organizing medically-supervised exercise programs to prevent the adverse outcomes known to be related to the Metabolic Syndrome. Dr. Karfunkel’s publications include an assessment of the extent of Vitamin D deficiency in men in his practice, documenting that vitamin D deficiency is particularly prevalent among subpopulations within his practice who were born in either India or China.


Sia Elsie Minja, MPH was born and raised in Kenya and came to the United States to study public health. Her focus includes economic disparities as they impact health and the reorganization of communities to alleviate some of these larger problems. She studied health policy with the Men's Health Network. Ms. Minja has a life-long commitment to help people from marginalized communities acquire the skills necessary to attain better health and wellness. Her goal is to start a NGO in Kenya focusing on raising awareness and policy changes as regards to this pandemic.


Jerry Lester, PhD is an Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, School of Nursing, in Galveston, Texas. He is a licensed psychologist in both Colorado and Texas. Dr. Lester is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology in the University of Houston.


Edward Stephens, MD is a psychiatrist practicing in New York City and works, as a physician and a psychiatrist, to support the growth of human potential in the men women and children who come seeking his help. He encourages people to free their minds and hearts for the encounter with their lives, creating openings to examine past solutions, an opportunity to learn new skill sets and/or get the medicines to aid this process.


Kristopher Kaliebe, MD is an Assistant Professor at LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans. He has Board Certifications in General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. Dr. Kaliebe is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Association for Academic Psychiatry, New Jersey Society For Adolescent Medicine, and Human Behavior and Evolution Society.