Faculty

Archibald Hart, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Board Certified
Diplomate in Psycho- pharmacology; Professor Emeritus and Former Dean, Fuller Seminary School of Psychology; and is AACC Executive Editor and Director of International Relations. Ph.D., M.Sc., University of Natal; B.Sc., University of South Africa.

Tom Whiteman, Ph.D. is a Licensed Psychologist in the state of and a Certified School Psychologist with the Philadelphia School District for 8 years, until 1987 Pennsylvania He is the National President of Fresh Start Seminars since 2004, Founder and President of Life Counseling Services, Paoli, PA. counseling center with 20 professional counselors. He supervises all the counseling at the center and conducts seminars on grief, co-dependency, dysfunctional families, and relationships. He is the former president of Fresh Start Seminars, Inc. for 10 years. He earned his B.A. from Florida Bible College , Masters Degree in Counseling from West Chester University, and Ph.D. in Psychology and Human Development from Bryn Mawr.

Jennifer Cisney, M.A. is Director of Professional Relations for AACC and producer
of the AACC video-based training curriculum. Jennifer has a Master’s degree in
Counseling from Wake Forest University and is in private practice in Charlotte, North Carolina. She specializes in working with grief, crisis, and trauma as well as helping individuals and families cope with chronic pain and chronic illness.

Daniel G. Amen, MD is director of The Amen Clinic for Behavioral Medicine. His private practice specializes in child, adolescent, and adult behavioral medicine and nuclear brain imaging. He is board-certified in general psychiatry and child psychiatry. He is the author of 15 books, popular speaker and guest on numerous radio and tv talk shows. Amen earned his bachelor’s degree from Southern California College and his medical degree from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. He completed a medical internship and psychiatric residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and a child/adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. In addition, Amen completed a nuclear brain imaging independent fellowship study, which required 200 hours of nuclear physics and related science at the Institute for Nuclear Medical Education and 1,000 hours of clinically supervised training to earn a California nuclear brain imaging license.

Catherine Hart Weber, Ph.D. is a teacher, lecturer and author, writing numerous book chapters, journal and magazine articles and co-writing two books. Weber is also a licensed marriage and family counselor.

Pressing Through Pressure: Managing Chronic Stress & Illness – Beth Fletcher Brokaw

Siang-Yang Tan, Ph.D. is a licensed pychologist with a Ph.D. in Clinical Pyschology from McGill University and a Fellow of A.P.A. Tan is a well known author of nine books and several articles on lay counseling, intrapersonal integration and spirituality, religious psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, epilepsy, pain, and cross-cultural counseling with Asians and Hispanics. Tan was director of the Doctor of Psychology program (1989-1997) and is now a professor of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California and the senior pastor of First Evangelical Church in Glendale. He is the associate editor for the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, and has served on the editorial boards for Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, and the Journal of Psychology and Theology.