Philip O. Toal, Ed.D., LMHC, CET

Philip O. Toal is the Senior Vice-President of Residential Services for Aspire Health Partners the largest Behavioral Health Care Provider in Florida. Philip is a Florida State Licensed Mental Health Counselor and has worked in the area of behavioral health care and substance abuse for over 35 years. Philip’s work has included stress management, pain management and biofeedback, behavioral medicine, psychoneuroimmunology, depression, HIV/AIDS, sex therapy and substance abuse. He has helped to develop and conduct stress management for an inpatient cardiac unit. He has worked with the Central Florida AIDS community since 1985 and his work using relaxation and imagery with AIDS patients has been widely recognized. He is also an adjunct Professor at Valencia College in the areas of Sex Therapy and Substance Abuse Disorders. He is currently a member of the Florida Bureau of HIV and AIDS Prevention Planning Group as well as the chair of the Florida Substance Abuse and Mental Health Planning and Advisory Council with the Florida Department of Children and Families Substance Abuse and Mental Health office. Philip graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology and Doctorate in Clinical Sexology from The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.