Dr. Levi Cole

Dr. Cole is a Clinical Psychologist licensed in the State of Alabama (AL #2297) and credentialed with PSYPACT, enabling him to provide 100% virtual psychotherapy and assessment services to adults in Alabama and over 40 other states. He also provides consultation  and training to individuals and organizations across the country.

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Dr. Cole completed his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology at BIOLA University’s Rosemead School of Psychology, receiving on-the-job clinical training at university counseling center, Los Angeles County USD high school, community mental health clinic, and forensic psychology settings. He then received a direct commission to the United States Air Force and accomplished his Clinical Psychology Residency at the APA-accredited Wright-Patterson Medical Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, completing rotations in outpatient military psychology, neuropsychology, clinical health psychology, and aerospace psychology.

 

Dr. Cole continued  his professional career in the Air Force for nine more years, serving tours of duty as the Director of Psychological Health at the 18th Medical Group’s Mental Health Clinic at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, then as an embedded operational psychologist with the 737th Training Group at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland, Texas, and fulfilling his last assignment on active duty as the flight commander for the 42nd  Medical Group’s Mental Health Clinic at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. 

 

In 2022, Dr. Cole separated from active duty and transitioned his full-time work to caring for military veterans as a federal employee with the Veterans Health Administration where he currently serves as the Clinical Psychology Internship Training Director and Program Manager for the PTSD Clinical Team with the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System. He also continues to serve in the military on a part-time basis with the Texas Air National Guard as the Chief of Behavioral Health Operations for the 147th Medical Group at Ellington Field Joint Base, Texas.

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In meeting with Dr. Cole, people often describe him as having a warm, calming presence, which for many people leaves them feeling more safe and empowered to venture into vulnerable, anxiety-provoking, and painful places. Clinically, Dr. Cole's approach is a scientifically grounded, deliberately relational psychodynamic style that pays special attention to the thoughts and feelings that arise in the therapy room. More simply put, this means that his treatment approach appreciates and pays attention to how our present moment difficulties are significantly influenced by the past (especially the dynamics in our significant relationships), factors outside of our immediate awareness, and longstanding patterns in how we think, feel, behave and relate to ourselves and others. Moreover, Dr. Cole believes healing, positive change, and growth is achieved most effectively through the unique vehicle of the therapy relationship, where stand-alone techniques and interventions may otherwise fall flat or only have a short-lasting effect.