Joseph Keifer

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT JOSEPH KEIFER

Dr. Joseph Keifer is the founder of Princeton Counseling and Psychotherapy and Clinical Director at Breaktide. During the Spring semester he teaches Cognitive Behavioral therapy within the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. He received his doctorate in psychology (PsyD) from the Institute of Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University with a concentration in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy/Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (CBT/ACT) and Health Psychology. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology Research Center within the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Joe has advanced training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). He worked with and received supervision from Dr. Aaron Beck one of the creators of CBT and CT-R. He has worked with individuals with serious mental health challenges and provided training and consultation to agencies implementing CT-R. Most recently, he joined the faculty at The Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy where he previously worked as a staff psychologist.Joe has a background in nursing and is a registered nurse. As a nurse, he worked in the fields of criticalcare, acute psychiatric services, and detox nursing. Joe is interested in researching and utilizingRecovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy to support and collaborate with nurses and other medicalproviders to help individuals with serious mental illness to achieve a life of their choosing. He hasdeveloped presentations on Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy and its implementation by nurses fornational and state nursing conferences.