Dr. Jeff Krepps, PhD.

Biography

Jeff Krepps, PhD, is the Director of Behavioral Health Education and Associate Professor of Behavioral Health with the School of Osteopathic Medicine. His current interests and work include performance enhancement and wellness/wellbeing services for medical students, physicians, other health professions students and professionals, as well as amateur and professional athletes.

Dr. Krepps received his PhD in Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University where he also completed a specialization in Medical Family Therapy. He received his Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Appalachian State University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has also completed training in clinical hypnosis and mindfulness, and he has consulted and trained with the developer of the Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Commitment (MAC) approach to sport and human performance enhancement. He is a member and officer of the Sport, Health, and Human Performance Special Interest Group within the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science and a professional member of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Dr. Krepps has more than 26 years of clinical experience working with individuals & families experiencing a variety of difficulties, and, in his current role, he provides therapy/counseling services to medical students and medical residents, as well students in the pharmacy, physician assistant, physical therapy, and other health professions graduate programs. He also provides performance consulting services to student athletes and has worked with golfers, basketball, baseball, and soccer players. Additional clinical experience includes work in multiple settings, including private practice, a family medicine clinic, university counseling/therapy clinics, sexual assault treatment center, private and public mental health clinics, community substance abuse treatment center, and home-based therapy. His work in each of these settings has provided a wealth of experience in providing effective counseling services.

In addition to his clinical experience, Dr. Krepps is the former Site-director and Assistant Professor of Pfeiffer University’s marriage and family therapy (MFT) graduate program (Raleigh/Durham campus). He is a former Assistant Professor with the MFT graduate program at East Carolina University (ECU), and a former adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry within ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. He was President of the North Carolina Association for Marriage and Family Therapy from 2013-2014 and served on the board for 12 years.