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Octavius Brown LPC & LCADC
Deacon Octavius Lamont Brown, MBA, MSCC, CASAC Master Level, LCADC and LPC is the Founder, CEO, and CAO of DOC OCTAVIUS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.
Octavius L. Brown was born on July 6, 1951, in Queen...view moreDeacon Octavius Lamont Brown, MBA, MSCC, CASAC Master Level, LCADC and LPC is the Founder, CEO, and CAO of DOC OCTAVIUS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.
Octavius L. Brown was born on July 6, 1951, in Queens, New York and raised in the South Bronx of New York City (aka. “Boogie down Bronx”). On his sixteenth birthday, in the summer of 1967, he woke up early to gather his Birth Certificate and Social Security Card to travel to Employment Office for a job. After a quick breakfast, he walked out of Melrose Project building 681 Courtland Ave, Bronx New York to the State Employment Office, on East 149 Street off Courtland Avenue. The goal was to get a real paying hourly job. Prior to his sixteenth birthday, the only source of income was from his New York Post paper route, selling shopping bags in front of Department Stories like Hearns and Alexanders, as well as shining shoes in Bars and on the corners Third Avenue between E 149 Street to East 153 Street.
Once he arrived at the State Employment Office, to his surprise, his enthusiasm was met with equal support from the man at the Employment Office. After basic verification of his documents, the man provided him with an address for him to go and apply for a Part-Time position. The job was at Melrose Pharmacy on the corner of East 153 Street and Courtland Ave. That was right across the street from his apartment building, and he was able to see the front of the store’s window display from his bedroom window. The Pharmacist at the Pharmacy hired him to do their deliveries and stocking the store with their merchandises for sell. To his surprise the summer of 1967, he had achieved three part-time jobs. The main one was working at the Pharmacy, his New York Post paper route and a Summer Neighbor job that was paying $37.50 weekly. The Summer job were for teenagers that lived in the South Bronx area. The four plus hours of work assignment had youths within the neighbor clearing out abandoned houses and empty lots in Harlem and the South Bronx area of New York City.
On February 16, 1970, and for the next 35 years he worked at New York Telephone/ Verizon until I retired on June 30, 2005. His Telecommunication career entailed Technical Skills, Central Office Frame-men, then Switchmen, and Union Steward, as well as Central Office and later Outside Cable Manager.
Education: Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from Empire State College (June of 1995). Certificate of Biblical Foundation on May 5, 2007. He received Master of Business Administration in the Spring Semester of 2005 from Regis University. Then in May of 2010, he received his Master of Science in Christian Counseling Degree. On September 14, 2012, he received his New York’s License as a Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor. Then on December 14, 2012, he completed Cairn University third year Program with the Certificate of Advanced Specialization in Christian Counseling. Then on August 12, 2013, he passed the National Counselor Examination that led him to obtaining his New Jersey License Professional Counselor and Alcohol and Drug Counselor Licenses, since 2018.
He has over 12 years of Mental Health Clinical life experiences in personal and educational development that have provided him with excellent Clinical Skills on Assessments, Occupational Health, Sexual Abuse, Behavioral Health, Complex Trauma, Domestic Violence, Family, Parenting Therapy training.
He often reflects on how extremely blessed he is to have an extensive Managerial, Telecommunication Technical and Mental Health Clinical Skills to meet the participant’s mental health needs. It is his honor to be able to give back to the community.
In closing, for over 55 years, Octavius lived with an Anger Management problem that was never diagnosed. Once he was able to realize the importance of Anger Management Counseling. It then helped him to discover the importance of mental health counseling and why we should never be ignored the signed of unregulated emotion episodes, which is commonly defined as an Anger outburst. Once he became aware of his mental health concerns due to unprocessed and unresolved developmental years, he then developed coping skills to make healthy and productive decisions.
It is by the grace of GOD that he took the time to learn what were his physical and psychological triggers. That is evidenced by his readiness to practice ways to implement Anger Management techniques and healthy decision-making skills to reduce and better manger your emotional triggers.view less