Dr. Cole Timonere

Clinical Reviewer

PhD, Counseling
JD
Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Dr. Cole Timonere is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Ohio, with a PhD in Counseling from Barry University and a JD from the University of Miami School of Law. He brings clinical judgment from his work with outpatient and residential care, and from his work on a range of clinical mental health documentation and content.

Specialized in

Gender-Expansive Care
Addiction & Substance Use
Clinical Content Review
Outpatient & Residential Treatment
Clinical Supervision

Dr. Cole Timonere currently serves as Regional Director of Outpatient Services at Universal Health Services, where he oversees partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient programs in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. He works with facility CEOs and clinical directors to raise the quality of care, expand access, and build new programs. Before that, he spent six years leading clinical and operational teams at ReCreate Behavioral Health Network, where he launched new residential and partial hospitalization programs and strengthened clinical documentation and utilization review.

Alongside his leadership work, Dr. Timonere reviews mental health content for clinical accuracy. He completed a full clinical review of the manuscript for Think Like a Clinician: DSM-5-TR Made Clear for Mental Health Students and Trainees, and he has reviewed relationship-education guidance on topics such as trust, rebuilding relationships, and family and in-law dynamics. He has also recorded instructional modules for graduate-level courses.

His clinical specialty is affirming, competent care for gender-expansive clients. He co-authored the Gender Identity Counseling Standards in the American Mental Health Counselors Association's 2021 practice standards, the first of their kind from a mental health counseling association. His doctoral research produced a self-assessment tool that helps counselors gauge their competency with gender-expansive clients. He is a member of AMHCA and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and his clinical work also focuses on addiction and substance use.

Dr. Timonere holds a PhD in Counseling from Barry University and an MA in Mental Health Counseling from Northwestern University, both summa cum laude, as well as a JD from the University of Miami School of Law. He is licensed in Florida and Ohio and is a Florida Qualified Supervisor, National Certified Counselor, Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, and Master Certified Addiction Professional.