Barry Koch

Barry J. Koch Ph.D., LCSW has been in the field of Social Work/Mental Health for 43 years. From 2006-2020 he served as a tenured Full Professor for the Newman University Master of Social Work program in Colorado Springs, where he taught courses in advanced clinical practice, psychopathology, neuroscience, crisis intervention, and social policy. He retired from that position in June 2020. He now teaches as an Adjunct Professor for the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and provides clinical supervision for psychotherapists who want to consult about cases (www.kochclinicalconsulting.com). 

Dr. Koch has 23 years of clinical practice experience in a variety of settings and treating a wide variety of mental health issues, including 15 years as the Clinical Director of a community mental health/crisis intervention center, a clinical training facility, on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, OH, where he provided crisis intervention training and supervision to over 1,300 undergraduate and graduate students.

He served on the Board of Directors for Suicide Prevention Partnership, and on the Emergency Mental Health Committee with Community Health Partnership, where he helped design the emergency mental health system for Colorado Springs.

He is the co-author of "Guide to Psychoanalytic Developmental Theories", published in 2009 by Springer Press. He was presented with the 2010 "Hero of Mental Health" award by Aspen Pointe in Colorado Springs for extensive work in the area of suicide prevention. He received the "Excellence in Scholarship" award from Newman University in 2010. He has done numerous refereed professional presentations in the Colorado Springs community and elsewhere.

From 2017-2020 he compiled a reference work titled "The Concise History of American Social Policy", which has been published as a 3-volume set by Cognella Academic Press. A fourth book, titled “The Central Role of the 12 US Wars in Shaping American Social Policy” will be coming out in May 2025. The books are available on Amazon. These works are also available in an online Canvas platform.

Dr. Koch is also an amateur cartoonist. He has three volumes of his cartoons published and available for purchase on Amazon (150 cartoons per volume). You can find them by going to the Amazon main page, and typing "Barry Koch" into the main search field. Each volume costs $15, and every $15 purchase goes directly to the Food Bank of the Rockies.

• Chronic mental illness
• Psychopathology
• Neuroscience for social work
• Social work practice theory
• Psychodynamic social work practice
• Suicide prevention
• Crisis intervention
• Clinical consultation/supervision
• Social policy