Njoroge, Joseph

Joseph Njoroge is a psychology lecturer at United States International University-Africa as well as a practicing therapist. He has been doing teaching in the university for the past thirteen years. He has just sent his first draft of his PhD thesis to his supervisor. The PhD topic is: Cultural perceptions of PTSD by members of the Kikuyu community who experienced the 2007/2008 post-election violence in Kenya. He has published two papers entitled on trauma on the USIU journal. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (U.K.), was the best in his Dale Carnegie course on leadership for which he received the golden award(Highest). He has done numerous courses in the area of counseling including: Thought Fields Therapy, Multi-sensori-trauma processing, Eye movement dissensitization reprocessing, Body mapping, Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT), Neuro-linguistic programming, Clinical supervision, Marriage, and family therapy. He has worked as a clinical supervisor at Nairobi Place and Caretek rehabilitation centers. He wHjjjjorked with traumatized individuals from the 1998 American Embassy bomb blast in Nairobi as well as the 2007/20008 post-election violence. He is also a trained spiritual and retreat guide. To relax, he dabbles with organic farming of vegetables and a piggery.