Oliver Morgan

Award-winning author Oliver Morgan is Professor of Counseling & Human Services in the Panuska College of Professional Studies at the University of Scranton (Scranton, PA). The Winner of the Independent Press Award (2020) for Addiction, Attachment, Trauma , and Recovery: The Power of Connection, he was the second Leahy Faculty Fellow in CPS during the years 2002-2004 and was the University’s CASE Professor Nominee in 2008. He is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Pennsylvania (LMFT), and a Master Addiction Counselor (MAC).

Since joining the full time faculty at the University of Scranton in 1990 Dr. Morgan has taught a variety of courses in both undergraduate Human Services and graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling programs. He has had responsibility for shaping a track of three courses in Addiction Studies as well as the Marital and Family Counseling courses. He served as Department Chair from 1997-2009.

In 2010 Morgan founded the Supportive Oncology Service, an independent psycho-oncology practice that is co-located with a physicians' oncology group in Dunmore, PA.

EDUCATION

Dr. Morgan has had what can only be called a “diverse” education. He graduated from Fordham University (Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) with a Bachelor’s degree in English and Philosophy and a specialization in phenomenology. After a stint as a high school teacher (quite an education in itself!), he began and completed a Master of Divinity degree, followed by a Master’s in Marital and Family Therapy, during which he had the great privilege of studying and working with Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, MD, one of the founders of family therapy. A few years later, he began and eventually completed a doctoral degree in Pastoral Psychotherapy at Boston University.

In 2006 he began "intensive" training as a Medical Family Therapist with Dr. Susan H. McDaniel.