Dr. Hale has worked with children and adolescents as a neuropsychologist in his private practice, Neuropsychology & Learning Associates, for 29 years. He has offices in Merrillville and Carmel, Indiana.

In addition to his work with children five years and older, he as an elite level weightlifter who works with men’s health and sports neuropsychology. He believes most men in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s can attain elite level cognitive and physical health.

Dr. Hale is a 100% natural weightlifter who is compliant with WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) guidelines and the spirit of “Play True.” He follows the research that performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are dangerous, especially for young athletes. He strongly believes that excellence can only be attained using honest practices and accountability in all sports.

Dr. Hale has published in professional journals, including articles on creativity, temporal perception, and stages of adult development. He served on the editorial review boards of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work and the Journal of Adult Development & Aging. He was an ad hoc reviewer for Rehabilitation Psychology and an associate professor of psychology at Indiana University Northwest.

Carl is a graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington and Adler University in Chicago, where he completed post-doctoral certificate training in clinical neuropsychology.  He completed his APA-approved internship at University Hospital in Chicago.

Dr. Hale has published professional papers on adult development, time perception, creativity in notable writers, and existential crises and trauma in the post-modern world, as well as poetry and newspaper articles.  He also served as an associate professor of psychology at Indiana University Northwest, as well as on the editorial review boards of several professional journals.

He developed a time assessment inventory, TEMPI, based on a paper he published in 1993, Time Dimensions and the Subjective Experience of Time, in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology.  The TEMPI provides a temporal portfolio to assess quality of life based on individual time experiences and ten distinct time “dimensions.” TEMPI results provide insight about how to “spend” our remaining time on earth optimally.

Carl was an atheist and staunch evolutionist for 20 years before being born again around age 40.  He is an unapologetic follower and friend of Jesus Christ.  He served as a youth Bible teacher and elder for 10 years and has done short-term mission’s work in Uganda, Egypt, Ghana, Bali, and Java.

He passionately believes in the Great Commission to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world, every tribe, tongue, people, and nation. He loves Scripture and is a student and teacher of the Tanakh and New Testament.  He is an unwavering supporter of Israel and the Jewish people, God’s chosen, and the founder of Houses of Abraham.

Carl’s other interests include developing an alternative computer-based, visual three-dimensional, algorithmic, parsimonious, diagnostic nosology for “mental illnesses” and psychiatric comorbidity, as well as writing about the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and human cognitive processing, Intelligent Design as it relates to probability mathematics & the C-value paradox, and classical composers and compositions, Baroque to post-modern.

He enjoys day trips to Chicago, especially the Field Museum of Natural History, with his daughter, son in law, and granddaughter, as well as traveling out west, especially yearly sabbaticals in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota.

Dr. Hale is a poet, playwright, and contemporary psalmist. He has published two books of psalm poems and is the author of At the Gates of Sheol, a three act play about Jewish children exterminated in the Holocaust, or HaShoah, to be published in early 2027. The play presents HaShoah from the perspective of four children, ages 8 ½ to 17, who were brutally abused and murdered because they were born Jewish.

Dr. Hale examines the Holocaust from a Gentile Christian perspective. The play powerfully highlights our fallen human nature, justice & judgment, and most importantly, the complicit role of anger and hatred in “ordinary” people who engage in violence and genocide. A final section, Humanity Addresses Adonai at Auschwitz, examines the perplexing theological aspects of the Holocaust from both human and divine perspectives.

Most importantly, however, I am a grandpa to Abigail, a father to Evelyn, a father-in-law to Michael, a brother to Aaron & Dean, and a son to Virginia and Richard (emeritus), the greatest blessings in my life.

At the conclusion of my family genealogy research, I wrote: “There is no greater success, no grander achievement, no higher accolade, no nobler accomplishment, no bolder renown, no finer legacy, no more momentous life, than to have loved and been loved in this world.”

• National Academy of Neuropsychology
• International Society for Sport Psychology
• APA Div. 47: Society for Sport, Exercise & Performance Psych.
• International Society of Sports Nutrition
• International Dyslexia Association
• Indiana Association of Home Educators

If you would like to learn more about Dr. Hale’s background or discuss whether his approach may be a good fit, you are invited to reach out.

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"This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has this world's goods and sees his brother in need but shuts off his compasssion from Him--how can God's love reside in him?"

1 John 3:16-17