I’m a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, information technology architect, mathematical modeling/analytics software developer, writer, researcher, and Founder/CEO of National Health Data Systems, Inc. (NHDS).

I also write about mindsets, the mind-body connection, human nature, consciousness, and cosmology. For the past 40 years, I’ve been working with an international team in the development of digital health assessment tools that provide mental/behavioral health practitioners and their clients (patients) with information that builds knowledge for increasing clients’ well-being and life quality.

In the early 1980s, I began developing a digital assessment tool and used it in my psychotherapy practice to collect and analyze client-generated data. I discussed the results with my clients in a collaborative process that supported treatment planning and delivery decisions, and I used the data to assess treatment progress and outcomes. I did this decades before other therapists used computerized information as part of the therapeutic process.

In the early 1993, I published my vision of a network of practitioners who communicate and collaborate with researchers and computer technicians to build innovative digital health tools and architecture that would provide essential information which enables and fosters a measurement-based, client-centric, whole-person, high-value approach to care. I then founded NHDS to develop the technologies required to realize that vision.

I reasoned it would take considerable time and effort to design and build the required technologies since the tools had to have exceptional capabilities. So, for the next 25 years, we focused on researching and developing the tools and a data exchange communications architecture that were needed to realize my vision. The tools had to capture, analyze, and report extensive details about a person’s experiences and health. The reported information had to build whole-person knowledge and actionable insights about the cognitions, emotions, and behaviors that affect people’s health, and what could be done to increase their state of well-being.

We are now focused on implementing the RevealMyWay™ tools that provide insights and guidance for increasing psychological well-being through self-awareness and knowledge.