Adrian Hickmon, Ph.D., is the Founder and Clinical Architect of Capstone Treatment Center and the Executive Director of the Capstone Foundation. He is also the creator of the Core Systems Model. Dr. Hickmon has nearly fifty years of experience working with adolescents and young adults as a coach, teacher, clinician, and clinical supervisor. His approach to working with young people, family relationships, trauma, and attachment wounds began to take shape during his eleven years as a co-head football coach, along with his best friend, co-head coach Ronnie Huckeba, at Ouachita Christian High School, where he developed the Father-Son Camp and helped lead the team to its first state championship. In 2001, he founded Capstone Treatment Center in Searcy, Arkansas, where he continues to serve as Clinical Architect. Dr. Hickmon was a founding faculty member in Harding University's Marriage and Family Therapy Master's Program, where he served as a full-time professor for over twenty years. His academic teaching focused on graduate courses in Trauma, Addiction, Parent-Child Relationships, Marital Therapy, and Group Processing. With more than 25,000 hours of supervision and clinical experience, Dr. Hickmon has presented internationally on addictions, trauma, parenting, and marriage. He holds a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Virginia Tech University, where his academic and research focus centered on building marital intimacy. He has an M.Ed. from Harding University and an M.A. in Substance Abuse Counseling from Northeast Louisiana University. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, and a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor. In addition, he is a Certified Trauma Therapist, a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist-Supervisor, a Certified Multiple Addiction-Supervisor, and a clinical member of AAMFT. He and his wife, JoAnna, have been married for fifty-one years and are the proud parents of two daughters, twin sons, and eight grandchildren.