JUSTIN KENNEDY

Evolved Coaching Stress Guru

My Purpose
My goal is to help people live without stress and work in a place without the need of Prozac or Freud. More excitingly, I have dedicated my life to teach and share with other people the invaluable knowledge that has helped others, to find the techniques that medicate without medicine. 

My Favourite Saying 
Define your existence beyond your very last breathe.

Special Advice
There are no second takes in this life. So live it up! Be true to finding yourself, finding joy.

BIO
Justin J. Kennedy, Ph.D. is a research consultant and academic based in Cape Town South Africa. He has lectured at various institutions including the College of Applied Psychology on topics of Anxiety and Traumatic Stress. He has been awarded the title: SMBC (stress management) and is board certified as an expert by the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.

Justin was also part of the US team in NY who developed the StressEraser™ technology (worlds first FAD cleared handheld biofeedback HRV device for stress). 

As a result of research with Health Insurance interventions, several programmes have been implemented for members who are not coping with stress related illness (burn-out, migraine, insomnia, anxiety, pain etc). The research with Discovery Health is now being published with the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work, in their Journal of Workplace Behavioural Health.  He is initiator of the research at University of Cape Town’s Dept of Human Biology, which has shown how to improve cognitive ability by employing biofeedback protocols.

Justin confers with rehab centres as part oftheir treatment for anxiety, substance abuse and stress related mental illness.  Justin also consults to business to assist staff and executives build stress resilience and maintain high levels of wellbeing. He is the counsellor and convener of the 2008 South African Depression and Anxiety Support Group.  He has been interviewed on several talk radio shows and newspapers as well as for television.