Dr. Jonathan E. Smith has a wide range of administrative/management experiences beginning with serving as a United States Marine. He’s led others as a supervisor, director, and President and CEO of The Wellness Collaborative. Dr. J.E. Smith honed his skills by providing over a decade of individual, couple, and family counseling and working several years in the crisis intervention and crisis stabilization field in the States of California and Virginia. He is an Organizational Psychologist with the ability to address cutting edge issues in management, education and training, business and organizational development, and systems design impacting health care, community services and public administration.  Dr. J.E. Smith’s experience and knowledge equips him to share with others as a marriage and family therapist, minister, coach, consultant and author, and allows him to facilitate positive change in people's lives.   It is Dr. J.E. Smith’s life's purpose to help people maximize their relationship with God and each other at home, church and the workplace. As a helper of people, Dr. Smith understands that we, human beings, express our greatest potential when we discover and remove the obstacles that hinder our capabilities.  He further understands that we, as human beings, are capable of experiencing our fullest potential, but block the full manifestation of the experiences through our succumbing to our inclinations to separate from those different from us.  Jonathan has been married to his beautiful wife, Katara for 26 years and has four children. The Smith family lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia where his wife is a middle school teacher and Jonathan pursues his life purpose serving as a licensed marriage and family therapist, consultant, coach and ordained minister.