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Helper of Community

Be it as a person’s counselor or as a founding member of facilities for the homeless, Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S., seeks to make others’ lives better by helping others improve how they function.
As a volunteer, he supports community services to improve others’ living conditions.
As a counselor, he “counsels” in the traditional sense: advising, directing, and nudging—or pushing—others into facing and resolving their issues.
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Trained Professional

Mr. FitzMaurice has a variety of formal and advanced training in counseling, which includes Addictions Counseling, Family Therapy, advanced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), and over 1,650 hours of diverse training for continuing education units (CEUs).
To make the best use of that extensive training, he takes an integrative approach, grounding himself in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT & REBT) and using the other theories to build upon that one core theory, rather than focusing on multiple theories and mastering none of them.
After more than twenty-five years in counseling, Mr. FitzMaurice has worked in the substance abuse field, directed two community mental health programs, and spent fifteen years counseling in private practice. In that time, he has refined many principles for and methods of counseling.
He now puts those principles and methods into book form to share them with a wider audience, so more people can benefit than he can reach in person.
Currently, he has more than forty books written, most of which are available worldwide as ebooks from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google, Kobo, and Apple.

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Self-Educated

The philosophical odyssey of Mr. FitzMaurice began in the late ’60s.
It has remained a mostly self-taught pursuit, with little formal training or education in philosophy.
The odyssey started with Western philosophy and a study of pragmatism and atheism.
For example, he read every work of Nietzsche that had been translated into English at that time.
From there, he moved to the study of Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism, and misguided experimentation with psychedelics to achieve states of superconsciousness.
He continued into Eastern philosophy, pursuing Taoism and J. Krishnamurti.
Next came a study of Christianity that started with seven readings of the Old Testament and nine readings of the New Testament from cover to cover.
This was followed by a deep dive into the study of Western psychology.
The ongoing influences for FitzMaurice’s thinking continue to be Christianity, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (REBT & CBT), General Semantics, and an Eastern combination of J. Krishnamurti, Taoism, Yoga, and Zen.
More information about the life of the author can be found in Stiffer: Stoic Mind.
More information about the philosophy of the author can be found in Mind-Moving (M-M): Healing’s Unifying Principle.

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Professional Credentials

Academic Credentials: Master of Science (M.S.) in guidance and counseling, with a specialization in agency counseling, from the University of Nebraska. Associate of applied science in human services – chemical dependency counseling (with honors), from Metropolitan Community College.
National Certifications: National Certified Counselor (NCC) [active for 20+ years, now expired]; Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC) [active for 20+ years, now lapsed]; Family Certification in REBT; Primary Certification in REBT; and Advanced Certification in REBT.
State Certifications: Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and Certified Gambling Addiction Counselor in the state of Nebraska. Both were allowed to lapse.
State Licensure in 3 States: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon [lapsed mid-2018]; previously Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) in Nebraska; previously Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Iowa.

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Contributions to the Community

Community Service: One of the founders of the Francis House, Siena House, and Stephen Center homeless facilities that are still in operation in Nebraska.
He also developed a community free-yoga program from one class and thirty-two members to over 4,600 members and more than a dozen free yoga classes.
Certified Yoga Teacher: Trained and certified in Mumbai, India. FitzMaurice’s yoga-class format.
Charity Organizations: FitzMaurice used to be a proud supporter of several charities that he now no longer believes are respectable or worthy charities. AmnestyInternational, Uman Rights Watch (HRW), ILO, LawyersCommittee.org, OHCHR.org, and the UN are too busy persecuting Israel for defending against the known terrorist group Hamas (Iran) to care about or to help people suffering from Islamist regimes. Someone explain to them that triage requires focusing on the worst doing the worst, not donations or political-correct agendas. Someone help them face the fact that Christians are the number one persecuted group around the world.
Over 10,000 Quotations by topic on this website.
Over 975 posts are available for free reading on this website.
Over 850 pages are available for free reading on this website.
Over 575 Fast-Facts are available for free reading on this website.
Over 200 pdf files are available for free reading on this website.
Over 150 Free education links on this website.

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Author’s Slogans

Do the absolute right thing anyway.
“I am the enemy of self-constructions.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“Self-constructions are public enemy number one.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

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