Dr. Ross Channing Reed holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Millersville University (PA), an M.A. in Philosophy from Baylor University, a M.Mus from The University of Memphis and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Loyola University of Chicago. His areas of specialization include existentialism, phenomenology, ethics, philosophical psychology, philosophy of religion, and addiction. He has experience working in mental health in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Reed also has over 30 years of college and university teaching experience, having taught philosophy, interdisciplinary humanities, global studies, and music at Loyola University Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, Rhodes College, Christian Brothers University, The University of Memphis, Columbia College Missouri, Drury University, and Missouri University of Science and Technology. He began his own private practice in philosophical counseling in 1998 and has had clients from Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. He is fully certified in client counseling by the American Philosophical Practitioners Association. He is a member of the National Philosophical Counseling Association as well as the American Philosophical Association. Dr. Reed is the author of six books:Love and Death: An Existential Theory of Addiction, A Philosopher Reports to Planet Earth, The Terror of the Simulacra trilogy (Vituperous Cleavage, Bulbous Chunks, Evisceration) as well as The Liberating Art of Philosophy: A Foundational Anthology (Cognella Academic Press).
He is a long-distance runner, hiker, mountain biker, and a jazz/pop/funk trombonist who occasionally plays Renaissance love songs.
About Dr. Ross Channing Reed
