Adrian Hickmon

Adrian Hickmon’s career began as a football coach for fourteen years, eleven as a head coach at Ouachita Christian High School in Monroe, LA. He served as a Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy in the MFT master’s program at Harding University from its beginning in 1993 until 2013. In 2001 he founded Capstone Treatment Center in Searcy, Arkansas, where he now serves as the Clinical Architect. He holds a PhD in MFT from Virginia Tech, an MA in Substance Abuse Counseling from NE Louisiana University, and a MEd from HU. He is an LPC, an LMFT, and an LADAC. He has over 25,000 hours of therapy / supervision experience. His credentials include CSAT-S, CTT, and CMAT-S. Dr. Hickmon developed the Core-Systems Model which focuses on substance and process addictions, mental health issues, underlying trauma and attachment incapacity, and family conflict resolution and connection. He has presented internationally on these topics. He and his wife JoAnna have been married for 48 years and live in their childhood hometown. They have daughters 44 and 42, twin sons 34, five grandsons 13, 12, 10, 8, and 5 months, a 4-year-old granddaughter and twin granddaughters on the way. His greatest joy is being with his family, especially in God’s great outdoors.