Dr. Harold T. Ames is a licensed Industrial/Organizational and Clinical Psychologist (HI PSYI-6/CA PSYI-32782). He is a McNair Scholar and graduated from Capella University in 2016 with a Ph.D. in psychology. Dr. Ames works with individuals, families, and organizations. He is a general practitioner who specializes in Humanistic Psychology to help his clientele achieve their mental healthcare needs and goals. He has practiced and mastered various approaches such as, cognitive-behavioral therapy, behavioral therapy, and multisystemic therapy to name a few. He believes the sacred practice of therapy works best when it is individualized, culturally significant, and from a transformational approach through spirituality. He has found this approach works well with stress, depression and anxiety types of conditions.

Dr. Ames has provided these services with this approach for almost 20 years among various populations, such as children, adults, and the aging community, in different settings; such as, in schools, hospitals, and in the community. His current approach is transcendental in nature. Meaning, he helps guide his clientele to take personal control, embrace the state of change, and focus in the present tense. Dr. Ames believes in the healing experience of sitting still, which is the “work.” He gently guides his clientele to master themselves by utilizing the classics of an Eastern worldview.

Dr. Ames is the co- founder of the new and emerging field of AI Psychology™, which is under development and meant to protect human psychology from the negative impacts associated with technology (i.e. social media). He was recently published in the United Nations Encyclopedia with Project GLOW, Massey University in New Zealand. He has served the community as a Commissioner on Human Rights, a Commissioner on Salary, and Chaired a Board on Mental Health & Substance Abuse. Dr. Ames passionate about advocating for policies that make sense to treat mental health conditions and to help prevent child abuse and Neglect.