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BIO
Hal Brown has been a clinical social worker for thirty-one years, having received his MSW degree from Michigan State University in 1971. He has worked exclusively in rural settings. In Michigan he was the supervisor of the Mason Mental Health Center and the Clinton County Counseling Center. Both were located in rural areas of central Michigan. In Mason, dairy farms, feed corn and soybean predominated. Clinton County bills itself as the mint capital of the world. Hal is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Massachusetts where he has a solo, home-based private practice. He specializes in individual adult therapy and marital counseling, with a specialty in high stress occupational counseling, particularly farm and police stress (having been a reserve police officer for over 20 years). In 2002 he began to offer phone counseling as a treatment option. Hal is married to Betty Brown, who is a third generation Ocean Spray cranberry grower. Hal and Betty moved to Massachusetts in 1990. She owns half of a cranberry company. The couple live on and operate the cranberry bogs. The other owners are family members who are not involved in the day to day operation of the farm, with two of the three living out of state. While Hal helps with bog work he is in not affiliated with the cranberry company.*
A History of the Mason Mental Health Center, Mason, Michigan Cranberry Stressline: The website that provides news and opinion about the cranberry industry, including Ocean Spray and the world of cranberry politics. Police Stressline: The number one police stress website with over forty original articles by Hal and other experts on the subject. email: [email protected] * The ownership and control remains with the first two generations. Massachusetts is not community property state. |
