Member Spotlight: NBFE's First CFMHE
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Gilbert Robbins III, LPC, MAC, SAP
On November 24, 2004, Gilbert Robbins III made history as the first mental health professional to ever be certified by NBFE. That's right--his certification number is 000001! Gilbert graduated from University of Alabama at Birmingham with a Master of Arts in Counseling in 1997 and is currently a doctoral candidate at the International Institute of Clinical Sexology. He has numerous professionalcertifications in the counseling profession, was appointed by the Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama in 1996 as Program Coordinator for the Birmingham Police Department's Domestic Violence Unit, and has worked in his private practice at The Counseling Center in Birmingham since 1998, where he provides psychotherapy, forensic consultation, forensic evaluation, psychological testing, and critical incident response. He has been deemed an expert witness in several Alabama Family Courts, State District Courts, and the Federal Court in Georgia, and he previously served as a contracted Independent Program Evaluator for the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Click here for information on how to refer to him.