Roosevelt's Background:

Roosevelt Brown, DMin, BCC, LMFT, is a Board Certified Chaplain, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and AAMFT Approved Supervisor. He currently serves as Chief Chaplain at Martinsburg VA Medical Center, where he provides spiritual care and integrates Whole Health System principles into clinical chaplaincy.

Dr. Brown has held successive chaplaincy leadership positions, including Chief Chaplain at Hampton VA Medical Center, Chief of Pastoral Care at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and National Naval Medical Center, as well as Chaplain of Navy Medicine and Staff Chaplain at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth.

He earned his Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Care/Counseling from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling from Liberty University, and studied theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and sociology at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Dr. Brown maintains LMFT licensure in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina, and holds certifications as a Clinical Fellow of AAMFT and Pastoral Psychotherapist with ACPE.

An American Baptist, Dr. Brown transitioned from the American Association of Pastoral Counselors to doing Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy in conjunction with the Psychotherapy Commission of ACPE. He values SIP’s practical framework for integrating spirituality into mental health care, enabling him to help clients from diverse religious and spiritual backgrounds address life’s challenges using their own spiritual resources.

Content & Course Format:

The SIP training program is a multi-disciplinary, inter-spiritual, multi-racial community of persons gathered for education, connection, and formation in the work of spiritually integrated psychotherapy. It serves licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals (i.e., counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, pastoral counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, addiction specialists, and more), as well as graduate students in any of those disciplines who seek to explore the ways spirituality, religion, and the search for meaning influence their own lives and the lives of their clients.



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