About Dr. Flannick & Parakleseos

Dr. Flannick's professional experience dates to 1977, when he obtained his first full-time position in mental health at the Children and Youth Unit of South Community Mental Health Center, a public facility serving the southern suburbs of the Dayton, Ohio metro area. 

Without interruption, he has practiced clinically ever since, treating children as well as adults in inpatient, residential, nursing home, and outpatient venues, and even the incarcerated using individual, marital, family, and group psychotherapy. 

For eight years (1984-1992), he was full-time faculty for the family practice medical residency program at The Medical Center, Beaver, PA, during which time he was appointed Clinical Instructor of Family and Community Medicine at Pennsylvania State University’s College of Medicine. Since its founding in 1995 he has owned Parakleseos LLC, a professional practice with a Christian perspective offering psychotherapy, as well as natural biologic interventions that completely eliminate the need for potentially dangerous and addictive psychotropic medication in the significant majority of cases. 

Dr. Flannick’s publications include six editions of Child and Adolescent Development: A Catholic Perspective https://www.bvtpublishing.com/book/744 ; a chapter on schizophrenia in each of the first three editions of Mengel & Schwiebert’s Ambulatory Medicine: The Primary Care of Families (Appleton & Lange); and a study conducted with two physician co-investigators on weight management (Journal of Obesity and Weight Regulation, 1989).  He has been a full-time professor at Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH (1999-2014); and an adjunct professor at the Institute for Psychological Sciences, Arlington, VA; Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA; Pennsylvania State University, Beaver campus; Wright State University, Dayton, OH; University of Dayton; Community College of Beaver County (PA), and Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH).

A cradle Catholic raised in a public housing project in Camden, NJ, Dr. Flannick attended Catholic school from the first grade through the master’s degree. Notwithstanding the very positive influence of these Catholic schools, he was allured by worldly things and left the Church as a young adult, only to be brought back to the true faith through trial, adversity, and miraculous events by a loving God who never loses track of his children.

Getting to Heaven, and helping as many others as possible get there are his two primary life goals, and secondarily to alleviate as much emotional suffering as God permits in his work as a clinical psychologist. 

Parakleseos LLC was incorporated and opened March 01, 1995, jointly owned by colleagues Marianne Krouk, D.O., a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, and Dr. Flannick. Dr. Krouk subsequently left the practice, leaving sole ownership to Dr. Flannick. Between 1996 and 2010, Parakleseos provided (in addition to traditional outpatient services) Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS), otherwise known as wraparound services.

The Christian perspective of the practice has been present since day one.  Dr. Flannick had practiced secularly before that (Beaver Valley Psychological Services, 1984-1995), but has found much better treatment success when a believing Christian allows faith to be integrated into the treatment process.  This is especially true when treating marital conflict.