He was the founder and director of the San Joaquin Psychotherapy Center and the non-profit Recovery for Emotionally Abused Children (R.E.A.Ch.).
[2] McCready opened San Joaquin Psychotherapy Center in Fresno, California in 1990, developing a day treatment program based on his integrative milieu model.
McCready was opposed to use of the medical model in psychology and was an outspoken critic of the use of diagnosis, electroshock, and psychiatric drugs in psychotherapy treatment.
Under Dr. McCready and Dr. Popper's supervision and program design, Associated Psychological Health Services was opened north of Chicago in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, under the clinical direction of Dr. Toby Tyler Watson, a past student intern at the San Joaquin Psychotherapy Center.
The Sequoia Psychotherapy Center, Inc. was opened in Fresno, California, in March 2005, by Dr. Mark D. Popper (Dr. Kevin McCready's Assistant Clinical Director from 1991-2004), K. Brent Olsen, and Pepe Santana.