Dr. Colen is a graduate of the Chicago Medical School and the University of Cincinnati Psychiatric Residency Program  where he served as Chief Resident the last year.  He continued there as an instructor for the next two years and started a Geropsychiatry Unit.  Dr. Colen returned to his hometown of Peoria and began his private practice in 1981 as founder and President of Associates in Mental Health.  He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria and was elected Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.  Dr. Colen was elected President of the Medical Staff at Methodist Medical Center in 1982.  He sees adolescents, adults and geriatric patients in individual, family, and group settings. 

Dr. Kyle is a graduate of Boston University School of Medicine.  She completed her residency at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas in 1989.  She later served as Chief of the Mental Health Clinic with the 380th Medical Group at Plattsburgh AFB in New York.  Dr. Kyle joined Associates in Mental Health in 1993.  She sees adults and geriatric patients in both an outpatient and inpatient setting.  Dr. Kyle specializes in anxiety and depressive disorders but sees individuals with a wide variety of problems including psychosis and dementia.  Her practice style is such that she likes to spend time and talk with individuals so that she is aware of what issues need to be addressed whether they have a psychopharmacologic or a psychotherapeutic basis or both. 

Dr. Poteat is a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina .  She completed her psychiatry residency at Yale University Department of Psychiatry at New Haven, Connecticut.  While in her residency, Dr. Poteat worked at the Department of Behavioral Health at St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut. She also spent one year of training providing psychotherapy and medication management for graduate and undergraduate students through the Department of Mental Hygiene at Yale University Health Services.  Dr. Poteat joined Associates in Mental Health in July 2004.  She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria. She sees patients ages 14 and older in both an inpatient and outpatient setting. Dr. Poteat enjoys working with patients with a broad range of issues with the goal of always trying to help an individual resume their best level of functioning through the aid of either medication, therapy,  or both.