Dr. Cohen was promoted to Chief Psychologist of the Mental Health Center, and was selected by Gubernatorial Appointment to be on the Florida Human Rights Advocacy Committee. In 1980 he left the Mental Health Center and developed an Independent Practice. 

He has held adjunct faculty positions at the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of South Florida, The Union Institute and the Antioch Graduate Training Program, as well as the Graduate Program of Vermont College. He has also twice been an invited faculty member of the Harvard Medical School’s annual “Spirituality and Healing in Medicine” Conference.

In 1981, Dr. Cohen founded, and since that time has served as Clinical Director of, The Life Center, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children and families cope with life-threatening illnesses and death of loved ones. The LIFE Center has provided service to over 30,000 people, free of charge, in its 22-year history. This work led him to be invited, in 1986, to become Clinical Director of the Tampa Bay Region Critical Incident Team, an organization focused on helping emergency services professionals who have experienced traumatic stress. In this capacity, for 17 years now he has helped provide and direct the counseling, formal debriefings and other interventions for people who have experienced trauma from plant explosions, workplace and school shootings, traffic incidents, fires, etc. Dr. Cohen is also the Clinical Director of the first-in-the-nation Community Crisis Support Team, an organization of trained volunteers, operating under the auspices of the local Emergency Operations Center, to provide direct services in response to traumatic events in the community. He has debriefed other debriefers, and has trained thousands of professionals in the technologies of Managing Traumatic Stress.

Dr. Cohen has recently received training in Behavioral Health Awareness for Terrorism and Disasters from Dr. Rueven Gal, Chief Psychologist for the Israeli Defense Forces for the past 25 years, and from Rear Admiral Dr. Brian Flynn, the recently retired Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S.

In addition, Dr. Cohen has been a consultant to business and industry, independently and as the Director of Behavioral Management Integration for Maverick, a management consulting firm. He has 20 years of experience doing Employee Assistance Program work and has done team-building, executive coaching, and other high level consulting to corporate clients, including, IBM, Diebold, Tech Data, TECO, Arthur Anderson, U-Haul, Black and Decker, Nationwide Insurance, WTOG TV, and many others.

Dr. Cohen has been consulted, quoted, and featured in many newspaper articles. He has been a guest on numerous television and radio programs and is a much sought-after consultant and trainer. Dr. Cohen was consulted and extensively quoted in an article, Journalists Suffering Trauma: Advice from a Professional written the day after the World Trade Center bombings by Dr. Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

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