Dr. Porter received his Bachelors and Masters in psychology from Georgia Tech and Hollins College. He completed his Ph.D. work at the University of Connecticut, and was involved in academic and clinical work at the University of New Orleans and the Louisiana State University Medical School for over 25 years before moving to Tampa to pursue clinical interests in 1997.

Widely published, Dr. Porter has lived and worked abroad as a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and as a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, England. He also pursued advanced research and clinical work at the Florida School of Professional Psychology (Argosy University), the Center for Complex Systems at the Florida Atlantic University and at the Center for Group Counseling, in Boca Raton. His clinical and research work has included medical psychology, neuropsychology, disturbances of speech and language, child & adolescent psychology, gerontological psychology, as well as supervision of research and clinical work of doctoral psychology students.

Dr. Porter was a principle architect of the Applied Biopsychology and Applied Developmental Ph.D. programs at the University of New Orleans where he taught a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars including child and adolescent development, neuropsychology, and abnormal psychology. Dr. Porter currently teaches, on an occasional basis, at the University of Tampa, and in the Argosy University Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Porter is internationally recognized for his work in psychology and brain function, bio-psychology, language, and nonlinear, “chaos” systems theory. His current research involves the study of the relationship between psychological disorders, trauma, and stress, and the body's physiology. Additional information about Dr. Porter may be found in his Curriculum Vitae or Clinical Résumé both of which are available  HERE