Title: Mental Health Administrator
Company: Richard L. Odor, PhD, Inc.
Location: Reynoldsburg, Ohio, United States
Richard Lane Odor, PhD, a psychologist and mental health administrator at Richard L. Odor, PhD, Inc., has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Doctors for dedication, achievements, and leadership in mental health care.
Dr. Odor is an independent psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice specializing in individual, family, and relationship therapy, mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, and evaluations for workers’ compensation disability claims and psychological appropriateness for surgery and pain management treatment. Since coming of age, he has sought a career that would allow him to provide lasting improvements in the lives of others. After completing coursework at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Odor transferred to The Ohio State University as a premedical studies major.
Dr. Odor quickly realized that he was more interested in socio-cultural values and psychology, and subsequently changed majors in order to become a mental health professional. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1977 and a Master of Arts the following year. Following this accomplishment, Dr. Odor began his career as a counselor for children’s groups at Gladden Community House and patients at the Columbus Area Community Mental Health Center. He continued his graduate studies at The Ohio State University, where he worked as a graduate research associate to the department chair of the Department of Family Relations and Human Development while completing his doctoral coursework.
In 1986, Dr. Odor was bestowed with a Doctor of Philosophy from The Ohio State University and continued his clinical work as director of emergency services at Southeast Community Mental Health Center, and later, as psychologist and program director for Southeast Counseling Services where he would remain until 1992. He opened his private practice as a psychologist in 1989 as Psychological and Counseling Services and incorporated as Richard L. Odor, PhD, Inc. in 1998. During this time, he also served as a clinical supervisor for New Source Counseling Centers 1990-99, central Ohio employee assistant program affiliate for McDonnell-Douglas Corporation 1992-94, senior consultant for the Global Consultant Partnership Inc., and president of Achieve Performance Consultants Inc.
Outside his mental health practice, Dr. Odor has been an active participant in the Olympic sport of weightlifting as athlete, coach, and referee. He served as the coach of the weightlifting team at The Ohio State University at the time of their non-collegiate state championship victory in 1984. As a talented expert weightlifter, he notably completed a 165 kg (363 lb) overhead competition lift and earned five medals via the International Weightlifting Federation’s Pan American Masters Weightlifting Championships, through which he received gold medals in 2003 and 2004 and two medals at the IFW World Masters Weightlifting Championships in Hungary and Australia in 2007 and 2009 respectively. Dr. Odor has been certified as a national referee for United States of America Weightlifting Inc. since 1997 and has participated as a referee at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio for nearly 20 years. He continues to practice the discipline of his sport and plans to continue sharing his love of the sport with others.
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