Kathleen Farrell, PhD.

EDUCATION
B.A., honors, University of Tampa, 1970
M.A., Rehabilitation Counseling, University of Cincinnati, 1974
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1982
Classroom/Dissertation: University of Cincinnati
Internship: Harvard University affiliate McLean Hospital, Waltham, Massachusetts
Dissertation: “The Identification of Psychological Pathologies Associated with the Behavior of Shoplifting,” basis for co-authored book: Farrell, Kathleen and Ferrara, John, Shoplifting, The Antishoplifting Guidebook, Praeger Publishers, 1985

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
April 1999 to present
Pinellas Park, Florida
As a gender therapist: counsels transgender individuals and couples, their significant others and families as well as working with parents who have children experiencing gender dysphoria. As a consultant: facilitates groups for WestCare Florida’s COPE program.

February 1992 to April 1998
AIDS Service Association of Pinellas, Inc. dba AIDS Community Project of Tampa Bay (ACP), Clearwater, Florida
As Executive Director: responsible for planning, staffing, organizing, directing, monitoring, controlling, supervising and evaluating operation of agency within guidelines established by the Board of Directors. Prior to 1992, ACP had volunteer staff, a budget under $40,000.00, and four programs; in 1997, there were 30 staff, including 10 Americorp*VISTAs, and an approved budget of $875,000 including Ryan White grants for adolescent, asymptomatic and pediatric case management, Medicaid Waiver case management, foster care for pediatric AIDS, food bank, thrift shop, 24-hour hotline, and an expanded education initiative with two teen peer educators. In 1998, conceived, orchestrated and assisted ACP to become an affiliate organization of The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast (the largest Hospice in the world).

July 1988 to April, 1993
King of Peace Metropolitan Community Church, St. Petersburg, Florida
As director of counseling department: recruited and supervised counselors; started support group for transgenders, administered counseling program of newly diagnosed HIV positive individuals referred through Pinellas County Public Health Unit. As a psychologist: counseled GLBT individuals, couples and families; evaluated adjudicated GLBT individuals for Pinellas County Courts.

March 1984 to July 1988
Farrell/Ferrara Consultants, St. Petersburg, Florida
As a psychologist: counseled GLBT individuals and couples; worked with shoplifters referred by the courts. As a consultant: surveyed and made recommendations to retailers to combat shoplifting,
conducted upper management seminars, operated Anti-Shoplifting Network. As a co-author: wrote
Shoplifting, The Antishoplifting Guidebook.

September, 1982 to March, 1984
Counseling Associates, St. Petersburg, Florida
As a psychologist: counseled individuals and couples; completed psychological testing for Pinellas County Courts; counseled first identified AIDS patient in Pinellas County; counseled transgender individuals diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
Advisor and founder (1988), StarBurst, the first transgender support group in Tampa Bay
Member of AIDS Memorial Bells, Inc.
Member of Pinellas County Social Action Funding Board (commission appointee)
Founding member, The Line, GLBT crisis, information and referral hotline for Tampa Bay
Founder, Amanda's College Promise, a scholarship foundation for children affected by AIDS
Former member/officer of the following: AIDS Partnership, Inc. President; Benedict Haven, Inc. President; City of St. Petersburg Social Action Funding Board Chair (mayoral appointee); Diabetic Charitable Services Secretary; FORGE (Florida Gender Equality Project, a statewide for gender equality coalition); Margaretta Van R. Schuyler and William B. Anderson Foundation, Inc. (foundation that provided grants to the GLBT community; Metropolitan Charities, Inc. Community Services (AIDS service organization); Tampa Bay Arts, Inc; True Expressions (GLBT youth group)

HONORS
Recipient of Soroptimist Women Honoring Women for Human Services
Recipient of Virginia Slims Legends of Women's Music and Tennis, local ‘Legend’ award
Installed into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York
Tampa Bay Annual GLBT Community Awards, nominated in four categories, finalist in two, honored as Education Contributor
Honored by Hospice of The Florida Suncoast for work in HIV/AIDS

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Community Activist for TGLB issues
Consultant to British documentary film maker, Celia Lowenstein, on subject of kleptomania
Short story, Maggie Becoming Mark, published in Trangender Tapestry
Interviewed for CBS 48 Hours’ Trapped
Article, The Power of One Little Pronoun, published in Trangender Tapestry
Keynote speaker National Tri-Ess S.P.I.C.E. conference