Dr Brent Potter, PhD, PhD, PsyD
Dr Potter’s areas of Practice
Dr Brent Potter brings 30+ years of direct clinical, managerial, and executive administration experience to his current behavioral health work. More important than this, though, is his life experience. “The clients whom Brent has served often note that his past struggles and attempts at recovery make him more relatable. Classes and reading books are good and necessary, but there is no substitute for experience. This lived experience makes him more successful and effective in his engagement with clients.”
The people Brent met and the things he witnessed while drifting from jail, to homeless shelters, to the streets, to treatment centers, to hospitals led him to realize his true calling, purpose, and meaning in life. Brent’s ability to fuse and apply academia, the latest scientific research outcomes, and the acid test of life experience makes him stand out from his colleagues. From the notorious emergency homeless shelters of downtown Seattle, Brent began penning on a notepad what would become the 2013 existential psychoanalytic Amazon bestseller, Elements of Self-Destruction.
Classes and reading books are good and necessary, but there is no substitute for experience. He went on to publish another Amazon bestselling follow-up, Elements of Reparation: Truth, Faith, & Transformation in the Works of Heidegger, Bion, & Beyond. Brent has also published, with co-author Jacqueline Simon-Gunn, Borderline Personality Disorder: New Perspectives on an Overused & Stigmatizing Diagnosis. His forthcoming books, Elements of Faith and The Myth of Sobriety, are already garnering public attention. Brent maintains positions on dissertation committees, editorial boards, and has published more than 100 professional articles, chapters, and reviews.
Brent earned multiple degrees including a BA in Psychology (Western Washington University), an MA in Clinical Psychology (Duquesne University), a PhD in Clinical Psychology (Pacifica Graduate Institute), a PhD in Psychoanalysis (Bircham University), and a PsyD in Psychoanalysis (Institute of Contemporary Psychanalysis). He holds a certificate to practice as a psychoanalyst from the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis as well. He holds multiple professional licenses and recognized specialties in behavioral health. Brent is much sought after for his clinical skills, consultations, supervision, speaking events, and interviews. Brent lives with his beloved wife, Gene Rose, and their children, Sean (two-years-old), and daughter, Sumner (six-years-old), in beautiful South Carolina. Their other home is in a remote province in the Philippines.
ABOUT ME
Dr Brent Potter, PhD, PhD, PsyD has 30+ years combined clinical, managerial, and executive leadership in the field of behavioral health. He is the author of Amazon bestsellers, Elements of Self-Destruction, Borderline Personality Disorder: New Perspectives on an Overused and Stigmatizing Diagnosis (co-authored with Jacqueline Gunn), and Elements of Reparation: Truth, Faith & Transformation in the Works of Heidegger, Bion, and Beyond. His forthcoming books, Elements of Faith and The Myth of Sobriety are already garnering public attention.
Brent has earned a PhD in Clinical Psychology (Pacifica Graduate Institute), PhD in Psychoanalysis (Bircham University), and a PsyD in Psychoanalysis (Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis). His education and training at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis certified him to practice as a psychoanalyst. For speaking events, interviews, supervision, or psychotherapy / psychoanalysis please complete the contact form on this website.
For speaking events, interviews, supervision, or psychotherapy / psychoanalysis please complete the contact form on this website.
