AMP Advisory Council

Locke Rush has over 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist and marriage counselor.  A graduate of Princeton University and a former officer in the United States Marine Corps, he also was co-author and co-producer of “Rooftops of New York,” an Academy Award nominated short subject film.

He lived in Japan for four years, studying and practicing the disciplines of Zen Buddhism, and spent a year as a lay monk in the Ryutaku-ji Zen Monastery.

He received a PhD in Counseling Psychology in 1974 and went on to found the first intensive outpatient addiction treatment program in Maryland. From 1975 through 1986 he studied under the great Sufi Master M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen.

Locke Rush is a great, great, great, great grandson of Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745- 1813).  Dr. Benjamin Rush was a prominent physician, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787, was appointed by John Adams as Treasurer of the US Mint, was founder of Dickinson College and an original advocate of establishing a Department of Peace as counter-balance to the Department of War.