My Professional Path
EXECUTIVE AND MENTOR COACH
- Mentoring Executives and Professionals to write the next chapter of their life or business stories
- CEO of MentorPath™, a coaching, publishing, and wellness firm
- Training professionals to become licensed, specialty New Life story Coaches™ and New Life Story Wellness Coaches™
- Coach Training Alliance Faculty: Training and Mentor Coach; Dean of Curriculum
- International Coaching Federation
AUTHOR
- Author of 16 books, 75 book chapters and scientific papers on self-development, money, success, and wellness
- American Society of Journalists and Authors
- Media and script consultant
- International Who's Who of Writers and Poets
- Regular feature columnist, THE NETWORKING TIMES magazine
- TV documentaries on success, emotional aspects of money, eating disorders
- Source for features in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Money, Fortune, Forbes, Savvy, Lear's, Town and Country, Parenting Today, Self, Allure, Better Homes and Gardens, Redbook, Real Simple
CLINICAL PIONEER, PROFESSOR
- Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst in clinical practice 1976-2002
- Clinical Professor of Psychiatry until 2002
- Listed annually from 1996-2002 in THE BEST DOCTORS IN AMERICA (Woodward/White Inc. Aiken, S.C.); listed annually from 1996-2002 in Inside Houston Magazine as Best Doctors in Houston.
- Board Certifications: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, American Psychoanalytic Association, Board of Forensic Examiners, and Board of Forensic Medicine
- Who's Who of Medical Specialists
- Founder and Director of one of the first multispecialty Eating Disorders Treatment and Research Centers in the United States 1983-1992; nominated for the American Psychiatric Association Achievement Award as having the highest cure rate of any U.S. program.
- Consultant to public and private corporations including U.S. Department of Labor, the Republic of Germany, the German Embassy, International Women's Tennis Association, The Institution of Rehabilitation and Research, SMU Graduate School of Business
- Past President, National Council of Psychoanalytic Education
- National and international presentations; keynote addresses
- Visiting Professorships: Augsburg, Germany; Javierana University, Bogotá, Colombia; Kansas Institute, Kansas City, Kansas; The Timberlawn Foundation, Dallas, Texas
BUSINESS STORIES
- Executive Mentor Coach
- Houston Head, A Gathering of Angels (Venture/Seed Capital Investment Group) 2003-2004
- Clinical Practice of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis with professional employees 1976-2002
- Founder and partner, Houston Day Hospital, Inc.
- Startup owner, venture capital funding, and merger of Houston Day Hospital, Inc. with Integrated Psychiatric Services, Inc.
- Board of Directors, Integrated Psychiatric Services Inc.
- Founder and CEO, Houston HomeHealth Associates, Inc.
- Owner/CEO Houston Wellness Management Systems, Inc.
- President, Texian Management, Inc. (1988-2002)
- Farm and ranch owner/operator; exotic wildlife ranching
Sandy consistently handed Farrell one club too short to make the green. His caddie was handing the club to the stronger golfer latent in Farrell, and it was Farrell's job to let the superior performer out, to release him from his stiff, soft, more than middle-aged body.
- John Updike, "Farrell's Caddie"