Jack is a board-certified clinical psychologist who has been practicing psychotherapy with adults and couples for more than 30 years. He brings the experience of decades to his work as a counselor, educator, and consultant. As an Emeritus Professor in the University System of Georgia, Jack is retired from service as a dean and director of clinical training services for graduate programs in universities in Georgia and North Carolina. In addition to his psychotherapy practice, he is a writer, having published four well-received academic textbooks following social science research paths related to grief and bereavement, crisis intervention, and rural mental health. He currently is a freelance writer and is widely published in a variety of print and on-line magazines, including NPR and PBS affiliates.
Jack’s experiential approach to helping others is found in the poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), who wrote:
No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful, take the good I find, the best of now and here. I break my pilgrim staff, I lay aside the toiling oar; The angel sought so far away I welcome at my door. For all the jarring notes of life seem blending into a psalm, And all the angles of its strife slow rounding into calm. And so the shadows fall apart, and so the west winds play, And all the windows of my heart I open to the day.