Interviews and Articles with Ken Unger
At the advice of an image consultant, Ken lost weight, and darkened his beard to prepare for TV interviews. This video interview was done before that and it shows you how he comes across on TV. All the pictures you see on his site are current.
L.A. actress and guest host Amy Lucas interviews Ken. Here he explains why his transformational healing work is so powerful. It includes brief clips of other interviews he has done over the almost 30 years he has done spiritual growth and healing events.
Here's a Los Angeles radio interview with famed LA talk show host Warren Duffy. It's great for understanding the transformational nature of Ken's work and the way it impacts people.
Radio Interview (click to listen)
Ken Unger - America's Soul Doctor
Ken Unger didn’t set out to become America’s Soul Doctor. By the age of thirty he had been a pastor for five years and a husband for three and he was burning out on both. That’s when a spiritual retreat transformed his life forever. A profoundly nurturing community of genuine love and healing showed him how much lives could be helped in a short period of time. Experiential exercises, vulnerable authentic teachers and deep, intimate relationships transformed him in ways that prescription drugs, education and traditional counseling never could.
When he got home, people asked him to offer similar retreats for friends and colleagues. He never imagined the powerful impact his retreats made on virtually everyone who attended. Now, almost 30 years later, he still offers life-changing Retreats to any who want to “transform their life in a weekend.” People who attend have likened them to a health spa for the soul.
As he progressed on his own spiritual growth and healing journey his Retreats also evolved. To the basic Spiritual Growth Retreat he added a Becoming Childlike Retreat, an Inner Journey Retreat and in recent years a Spiritual Healing Retreat. Each level goes deeper into the psyche; each produces wonderful changes in virtually all who attend. Therapists say they are worth a year in therapy.
As Ken learned to heal the psychic pain that almost destroyed his own life, people sought him out for their own personal healing. This birthed his amazing healing process known as STEP Therapy, Spiritual Therapy for Emotional Pain. His new book The Ultimate Breakthrough explains this simple, gentle, yet powerful healing process. Instead of treating symptoms in endless months and years of emotional archeological digs it heals the primal pain that fuels most of our problems.
When clients wanted to treat depression without drugs, he developed Seminars like Peace without Prozac. To train businesses for better interpersonal skills, he designed Improving Your Emotional IQ. As relationships crumbled he designed Metamorphosis to teach people the skills that make relationships thrive. When companies struggled with dysfunction in the workplace, he started the Healed at Work Conferences.
Perhaps what has most rewarding is the many people Ken talks to many years after attending his events who tell him they were a true watershed in their own spiritual growth, healing and development that five, ten, 20 years later they are still different as a result of one retreat or seminar.
Who is Ken Unger?
Media: Ken is a true Renaissance man with a fascinating wealth of experiences. Just in media work he has been a commercial actor, model and voiceover talent, hosted an award winning radio show, and done countless radio and TV interviews. His dynamic style and intriguing use of experiential exercises guarantees that he is always invited back.
Academic Degrees: Marketing, Management, Psychology and Theology.
Awards: Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who among Writers, Who’s Who in College; Governor’s Appointee to the White House Council on Families; Angel Award (for Best Religious Show on Secular Radio); Rotary Fellowship to study abroad; Sigma Nu Scholar of the Year.
Life Experience: For over 35 years Ken worked with inner city youth and in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, churches and colleges.
Healing and teaching: Since 1979 he has taught classes and led Retreats & Seminars on spiritual growth and emotional healing in the US and Bahamas.
As a Spiritual Psychotherapist: Ken has used STEP Therapy in his work with pro athletes and coaches, titans of industry and TV personalities, child molesters, prison inmates, addicts, sociopaths, psychotics, and satanic abuse victims and perpetrators. He’s helped people from all walks of life heal the pain that underlies their failures and out-of-control compulsive behaviors.
Writing: As a former atheist who writes both fiction and nonfiction, books and screenplays, Ken has been called an American C. S. Lewis. He has two published and three as yet unpublished nonfiction books, dozens of articles, six training manuals, two unpublished novels and three screenplays. (One is currently in negotiation with a Hollywood producer.) Along with over 100 articles, his published books include True Sexuality and the soon-to-be-released Ultimate Breakthrough.
He was also Dean of Counseling at the largest Bible College in the world, pastored three churches over 23 years, founded his own business and founded and run the non-profit One Life Ministries since 1982.
He was a corporate executive for the Heinz Company, an adjunct professor, and worked in a private psychiatric hospital and a state youth psychiatric hospital; he ran coffee houses (including one in the prison where Shawshank Redemption was filmed), promoted rock concerts, sang lead in a 1960’s rock band, fought and won a case that opened up home schooling in Ohio, raised four grown kids, lived in two communes, and edited the Hollywood Free Paper, Ohio Edition.