John C. Carr

 

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John C. Carr, Ph.D., Diplomate (Retired) of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC), Retired Pastoral Counselling Education and CPE Teaching Supervisor of the Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and Education (CASC/ACSS), Retired Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), Registered Psychologist (Alberta # 1035).  He has recently retired after nearly five decades of professional practice as a parish minister, pastoral psychotherapist, and clinical pastoral educator.  John teaches therapy theory courses and has a longstanding interest in research methodology, professional formation, and crosscultural theory and practice.  He has travelled widely and, during a third trip to India in January-February 2009, taught therapy theory and research methodology at the Mar Thoma Seminary in Kottayam, Kerala, S. India  He returned for an additional three weeks in August 2011.  In1989-90, he lived in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, where he was Visiting Fellow (Pastoral Counselling) at the Campbell Centre, a division of Presbyterian Social Services.