Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Noah H. Kersey, Ph.D.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I was born in Tampa, Florida on May 17, 1951 to a poor, illiterate and abusive mother who had been abandoned by her illiterate and abusive husband so her mother was the only one present at my birth and she named me after my father and her maiden name as my middle name. Up until the age of eight my mother would take out her anger towards my father, Noah Kersey, on me and used my face and head as a pugilist’s speed bag punching me with her fists until I was knocked out cold and bleeding very badly from my eyes and nose. She did this until my father came for a visit one day and when they got into another fight, my dad kidnapped me and drove me to Georgia from Tampa for almost five month until one night he came home intoxicated and in a fit of anger dragged me out to his beat up old car and left me on the side of a deserted rural country road in the middle of the night where he left me alone sitting on my old beat up green metal suitcase as he drove away into the lonely night. From there a very kind man picked me up and drove me back to Tampa where he happened to be going and dropped me off at my mother’s home where she was shacked up with an old boy friend. When I knocked on her front door she opened it and upon seeing it was me she slammed the door in my face. To make a very long story short, I roamed the streets of Ybor City, an old Cuban neighborhood of Tampa which had been annexed by the city of Tampa many years before. After eating out of garbage cans, sleeping in a dry Dempsey dumpster for five months a social worker from DCFS found me and placed me in an orphanage called The Tampa Children’s Home on Florida Avenue where I grew up before going off to college after high school.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
No, nothing about my life has been “a smooth road” being beaten up regularly and abandoned made me suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for the rest of my life which resulted in my doing, years later, my doctoral dissertation on the subject and its titled: The Effects of Fear of Bodily Injury and the Locus of Control On the Development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: An Analogue Study.
I overcame the abuse in my childhood as well as surviving prison and being given the opportunity to finish college to become a doctor of psychology I knew God wanted me to use those experiences to help other people, not only as a clinical psychologist but by telling my underdog coming of age story as a motorcycle riding martial arts champion who grew up in an orphanage and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for the tragic mistake of almost killing my high school sweetheart and her heroic, loving father.
We’ve been impressed with LifeCare Counseling Services, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I was very creative building my practice from the ground up. I was the first in my profession to use the internet to reach out to more prospective patients with a colorful informative website. After a newspaper article “Noah Rode Out Storm To Thrive” was published in 1998 I placed it on my website which attracted patients from other states who travelled to see me. My practice exploded with new patients who felt my experiences growing up could help them more than a psychologist who grew up in a loving home. I also wrote creative articles about movies and the lessons I learned from watching them like, “The Art of CinemaTherapy: What I Learned From The Movies”, which can still be found online. Now, I continue being creative with other things such as using what I call “the Pin Ball Machine process” to find investors or film producers for our film project. This process entails my searching for one thing and it leading me to something else to finally something even better thus, the “Pin Ball Machine” process.
I worked with individual adults and families specializing in depression, anxiety, and, of course, PTSD. for 32 years.
How can people work with you, collaborate with you or support you?
People can help me by finding investors for my film project about my true life underdog, coming of age story.
I managed to write a screenplay “Malicious Intent” aka “A Stray Bullet” under my nom de plume “Howard Henderson” my maternal grandmother’s maiden-married name and I will soon begin writing a novel of the same title.
It’s about me as a young man riding motorcycles and competing in intercollegiate karate tournaments who later goes to prison due to a tragic accident where I came close to killing my high school sweetheart and her hero of a father trying to save his family from an intruder.
I also watched DareDevil and wondered who his stuntman was which is how I found the director of our film. His name is Chris Brewster and he has a website so I sent my story to him and he called within five minutes excited to hear from me. He said he would love to direct our film and told me “your life story is incredible and it needs to be told!” I saw his videos and they’re very exciting to watch. Here is his work: https://vimeo.com/469560257 and, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hj65GVg0jU. Thank you for allowing me to share my story with you and your readers. If anyone has any further question or just want to chat with me my email address is [email protected].
Pricing:
- $3. million dollars
Contact Info:
- Website: https:// https://www.polarsteps.com/NoahKersey/810002-harley-across-europe
- Instagram: [email protected]
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/noah.h.kersey/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DocNoah7
- Youtube: https:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gXyzjLC9SQ
- Other: https://www.facebook.com/TrekCaminoForDiabetesCure/
Image Credits
Photos by Jessica Donnelly at Jess Leigh Photography. The one on Camino I do not remember. The one in Brussels, Belgium was a passing stranger and the one with guitar wishes to remain anonymous because he’s my shy college roommate from almost 50 years ago and is my current house mate.
