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Benjamin B. Keyes, Th.D.,PhD, Ed.D, LPC
Program Director/ Associate Professor, School of Psychology and Counseling
Regent University, VA
Aside from his University duties, Dr Keyes is a board member of Restoration Ministries ,working with Human Trafficking and Prostitution; and Earth Charter U.S., working with Human Rights, Democracy and Peace, and the Environment. He is a Licensed Psychotherapist and Clinical Consultant in the States of Virginia (LPC) Florida (LMHC) and Texas (LPC & LMFT) and holds 4 National Board Certifications. His earlier work has focused on churches, agencies, hospitals, and partial programs. His private practice work includes individual and group therapy with adults, adolescents, children, couples, and families. His specialties include Dissociative Disorders, Domestic Violence, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, Addictions- Substance and Sexual, Adolescents, and Christian Counseling with an emphasis on Inner Healing.
His work over the years has focused on severe psychopathology and the devastating effects of Early Childhood Sexual Abuse, Rape, and Domestic Violence. His book, E Pluribus Unum, Out of Many One, co written with Sandy Sela-Smith, chronicles the therapeutic journey from fragmentation to integration of a Dissociative Identity Disorder client (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder) to complete wholeness and healing. His cross-cultural research with the Shanghai Mental Health Center in the Peoples Republic of China, in the area of Differential Diagnosis between Schizophrenia and Dissociative Disorder has generated several Journal Publications and has contributed to the treatment of Dissociative Disorders in the Peoples Republic of China. Currently he is co- writing a book on Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder from a Christian Perspective and working with Regent University to establish, train, and certify a First Response Trauma Team with Graduate students who will respond to man-made and natural disasters within 72 hours providing mental health services to those in need.
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