Dr Brent Potter, PsyD (abd), PhD, PhD
Dr Brent Potter, PsyD (abd), PhD, PhD brings 27 years of direct clinical, managerial, and executive administration experience to his current behavioral health work. More important than this, though, is his life experience.
Brent experienced unremitting stress, sub-poverty conditions, and complex trauma early in life. As with countless others with such backgrounds, he too found himself struggling with varieties of emotional distress, addiction, and challenges he never imagined possible.
His clients find he has “been there” and so they can connect with him on a more comfortable, honest, and intimate level. 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. 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 book, The Myth of Sobriety, is already garnering public attention as both controversial and scientifically rigorous critique of contemporary models of addiction treatment.
Brent has seats on numerous scholarly editorial boards and has published more than 100 professional articles, chapters, and reviews.
Brent holds numerous degrees including a BA (Western Washington University) and MA (Duquense University) in Psychology, a PhD in Clinical Psychology (Pacifica Graduate Institute) and a PhD in Psychoanalysis (Bircham University).
He is a third-year psychoanalyst candidate at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP). Brent’s completion of the ICP program will grant Brent’s third doctorate, a PsyD in Psychoanalysis.
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.
He lives with his beloved wife, Gene Rose, and their adorable two-year-old daughter, Sumner, in South Carolina, Washington State, and a remote province in the Philippines.
