Gene F. Collins, Jr., Ph.D. has been counseling, consulting, teaching, and writing in the areas of astrology, numerology, tarot, meditation, metaphysics, psychology, psychotherapy, parapsychology, and transpersonal psychology for over 40 years. He has served as a clinical psychologist, mental health counselor, and psychotherapist in a variety of settings including major university, government, and private medical centers, psychiatric hospitals, and mental health centers in both Florida and Illinois. He is a retired licensed psychologist in Florida and a retired clinical psychologist in Illinois.
Dr. Collins received his B.A. in Psychology (1974) and his M.A. in Clinical Psychology (1975) from Bradley University, and his Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology (1985) from the University of South Florida. He has published as a second author in Developmental Psychology (1975) and as a first author in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy (1984).
Dr. Collins is certified in natal astrology (1974), is a Life Advanced Member of the American Federation of Astrologers (LAMAFA), and has served as the Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Astrologers. He specializes in natal, predictive, psychological, and karmic astrology as well as relationship compatibility (synastry). He is the author of Cosmopsychology – The Psychology of Humans as Spiritual Beings (2009).
In addition to his clinical and community work, Dr. Collins has taught psychology, communications, relationship, and personal growth classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and has been published in both professional journals and community magazines. His professional include personal growth, the psychology of romance, sex and marital therapy, sexual identity, transpersonal psychology, alternative medicine, AIDS, and death and dying.
Dr. Collins has advance training and/or certification in hypnotherapy, personality assessment, sex therapy, stress management, client-centered therapy, gestalt therapy, rational-emotive therapy, transactional analysis, crisis counseling, and telephone therapy as well as transcendental meditation, silva mind control, est training, and graphoanalysis. He has been a member of Expanding Human Awareness, the American Federation of Astrologers, the Illinois Federation of Astrologers, the Illinois Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Southeastern Psychological Association, the Florida Psychological Association
