Dear Patients,

we are proud to announce that Dr. Kennon Rider, Marriage, Couple and Family Therapist, will extend his office hours from 9am-8pm.

Dr. Kennon Rider, PhD, CFLE
Marriage and Family Therapist

Dr. Kennon Rider is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Trained in the United States, he received both his Master of Science Degree (MS in Family Relations) and his Doctorate (Ph.D.in Human Development and Family Studies with specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy) from Texas Tech University, College of Human Sciences. For over twenty-five years Dr. Rider has been actively working toward strengthening marriages, coouples and families through therapy, counseling and education. Through his therapy practice he has treated individuals, couples and families who sought help primarily with relationship issues. As a University Professor at Texas Tech, California State University - Fresno, Zayed University in Dubai, and most recently at Michigan State University Dubai, his teaching has included such courses as Children, Couples and Families in Crisis, Family Relations, Lifespan Human Development, Parenting, Child Development, Family Resource Management, Interpersonal Skills as well as Human Sexuality.

As a Certified Family Life Educator (sanctioned by the National Council of Family Relations in the U.S.) Dr. Rider engages in seminar and workshop training and counseling for issues such as grief and loss, crisis management, depression, anxiety, communication, stress and anger management, conflict resolution, and other marital, couple and family issues. He also develops and evaluates community and corporate based educational programs.

In addition to his experience with teaching and therapy, Dr. Rider assists organizations with Critical Incident Stress Management when traumatic events put their employees at risk.

Dr. med Ali Hosseinkhah, M.D. (German Facharzt)

Dr. med. Ali Hosseinkhah (German Facharzt) is a Senior Consultant Neurologist with over 10 years experience in medicine and who was living and studying medicine in Germany. He was born in Mashhad, Iran, and moved to Germany in 1986. He did his intensive specialty training in Neurology at the known German Hospitals, Brandenburg-Klinik in Bernau (Brandenburg), Hamburgerisches Krankenhaus in Bad Bevensen (Niedersachsen), Weserbergland-Klinik in Höxter (Nordrhein-Westfalen) and St. Elisabeth Krankenhaus in Damme in Niedersachsen, Valentinushaus in Bad Soden.
This way he was able to achieve the full qualification as a specialist in Neurology. Consequently he was entitled by the Chamber of Physicians’ Berlin to carry the German specialist licenses as neurologist.
He continued his wide and varied training and experience at the known Helios Hospital in Schwerin, Germany, on the neurological intensive care unit and at the “Johanna-Etienne” General Hospital in Neuss, Germany, as deputy of the neurological department.
His special interest in the field of Neurology is in Movement Disorders (e.g. Parkinson), Cardiovascular Disorders (e.g. Stroke), multiple sclerosis, Epilepsy, peripheral nerves impairment and others.
Part of his daily routine is a close and continuous cooperation with neuro-radiological as well as neurosurgical and vascular surgery departments.

Dr. med. Ilse Horacek, M.D. (Austrian Facharzt)

Dr. Ilse Horacek, MD, completed her studies in Human Medicine at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she was granted her Doctor’s Degree in 1997.
After completing her internship in General Medicine, she worked as an assistant doctor in different Psychiatric, Gerontopsychiatric an Psychosomatic Hospitals in the region of Upper Austria, where she was granted her degree as a specialist in Psychiatry from the Austrian Medical Chamber.
Until March 2010, she worked as a Senior Consultant for Psychiatry in the Psychiatric Department of the Hospital in Steyr and the Psychosomatic Hospital in Enns (both Upper Austria), where she was head of the consiliar-liaison-service. Furthermore she taught in Nurse’s Training School and was active in Adult Education.
Dr. Horacek achieved additional qualifications in Psychosocial and Psychosomatic Medicine and in Psycho-Oncology. She has a special training in Psychotherapy based on Humanistic Psychotherapy (Existential Analysis and Logotherapy, GLE Vienna). Considering biological, psychological and social factors and relationships in treating psychiatric diseases is one of her highest principles.
The main topics of her work are diagnosis and therapy of psychiatric and psychosomatic diseases like:
Depression, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, adjustment disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disease, dementia, sleeping disorders, addictions, eating disorders, chronic pain syndrome, somatoform disorders, burnout-syndrome and all kinds of psychic alterations in connection with somatic disorders.

German Center for Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy & Counseling, Dubai

The German Center for Neurology and Psychiatry welcomes 2 new Counselors / Psychologists / Psychotherapists in their team:

Dr. Kennon Rider, PhD, CFLE and Jared Alden are US/UK trained psychologists/counselors and have extensive experience working with all manner of psychiatric conditions. E.g. Marriage and Family Therapy, Trauma, Eating Disorders, Chemical Dependency, Couples Counseling, Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD), ADHD and others.

Dr. Kennon Rider, PhD, CFLE

Jared Alden

German Center for Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy & Counseling, Dubai