AMFTRB Board of Directors Electronic Ballot 2009

AMFTRB Board of Directors Electronic Ballot 2012 — Candidate Bio

President-Elect

Herb Grant, LMFT

Experience: Minnesota State Board of Marriage & Family Therapy Chair, previously served as Secretary and Vice Chair and on the Personnel and Applications Committees, Angoff Panel for AMFTRB Angoff Panel – 2005 and 2009, Minnesota delegate to AMFTRB 2010. With a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota’s College, Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology and Post-Master’s Certificate in Family Psychology, I am an AAMFT approved supervisor , Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Saint Mary’s and Bethel Seminary maintain a solo practice.

AMFTRB Issues/Interests: License portability/model law, regulation process and technology evolution, regulatory evaluating procedures

Jeff Hinton, LMFT

Experience: Mississippi Board of Examiners for Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, completing 8 years June 2010. AMFTRB Model Law Committee, Co-Chair. As MFT Program Director and currently the Director of Clinical Training for the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Southern Mississippi, I have been an MFT educator for 11years and practicing marriage and family therapist for 13 years.

AMFTRB Issues/Interests:
Positioning AMFTRB to provide a powerful national forum for resolving regulatory challenges and I would like to see AMFTRB take a more active role in the collection, codification and dissemination of regulatory information.

Treasurer

Alan Swindall, LMFT

Experience: Current Treasurer AMFTRB, Alabama Board of Examiners in MFT, 2007; Chair 2009-2010, Alabama Association for MFT, Past Chair
Upon completion of a master’s degree in marriage & family therapy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, opened a private practice in Birmingham, where in addition to my practice, in 2004 I joined the MFT training program at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa as an adjunct instructor and Director of Clinical Training in the Capstone Family Therapy Clinic of the College of Human Environmental Sciences. Serving on the AMFTRB provides for me a means by which to give back to the profession in an effort to help maintain the high standards and practices that have guided me through my life.

AMFTRB Issues/Interests: Licensure portability, licensure process for students

Danny L. Garnett, D.Min., LMFT, LSMFT

Experience: South Carolina Licensure Board for Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Professional Counselors, and Psycho-Educational Specialists, Vice-Chair , Previously served as SCAMFT’s legislative chair, interdisciplinary committee charged with writing what became the licensure bill for Marriage and Family Therapists, President for the South Carolina Marriage and Family Association, AMFTRB’s Finance Ad hoc committee A delegate (alternate) to AMFTRB national meetings. Education includes a Master of Divinity Degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Doctor of Ministry in marriage and family counseling from the Graduate Theological Foundation, 25 year’s experience as an LMFT, AAMFT Approved Supervisor and Director for the Palmetto Pastoral Counseling Center.

AMFTRB Issues/Interests: Licensure portability/model law, on-going funding and options for providing the National MFT Exam, continuing competency.

Secretary

Pamela Clark, PhD, LMFT

Experience: South Carolina Board of Licensure for Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psychoeducational Specialists – Licensure Standards Committee and Secretary/Treasurer

Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, AAMFT Approved Supervisor, Program director of the COAMFTE accredited marriage and family therapy masters program at Converse College since 2003 and a small private practice.

AMFTRB Issues/Interests: Addressing the reduction in number of new marriage and family therapists due to the greater ease of entry into the other mental health professions, particularly counseling, assessing the exam design/process is consistent with the licensure laws of most states and exploration of the issue of social networking and electronic communication in general with goal of providing guidelines for the state boards as they negotiate these new issues.

Tony Watkins, LMFT

Experience: Kentucky Licensure Board for Marriage and Family Therapists since 2004, Chair since 2006. Leading the board in making significant regulatory changes has strengthened the profession in Kentucky, AMFTRB Model Law Committee, regional coordinator with an eight-county regional community mental health agency.

AMFTRB Issues/Interests: Licensure portability

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