About Dr. Edmonds
I was born in Berkeley, California and moved to Tennessee as a 9 year old child. I attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for my undergraduate work. After completing a year of graduate school in neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis, I had a change of heart about my career plans. I decided I wanted to help others the way I had been helped through psychotherapy, rather than doing experiments in a laboratory all day long.
I completed my psychology graduate work at Syracuse University in 1993, where I developed a special interest in psychotherapy with traumatized individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and other major "mental illnesses." As well, my dissertation was a research project on the effects of bereavement on parents who lost children aboard Pan Am Flight 103, in particular possible positive changes in life that could occur as a result of experiencing a traumatic loss.
I have worked in many kinds of treatment settings, including a state psychiatric hospital, day treatment programs, managed care, and an outpatient clinic for victims of crime and abuse. I have been in a solo private practice for 5 years.
Some of my specialties include the use of nonviolent communication in therapy, relationships, and parenting (I teach parenting classes); healing of early trauma; coherence therapy; psychotherapy with persons diagnosed with schizophrenia, and informing others about the dangers of psychiatric medications.
I completed my psychology graduate work at Syracuse University in 1993, where I developed a special interest in psychotherapy with traumatized individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and other major "mental illnesses." As well, my dissertation was a research project on the effects of bereavement on parents who lost children aboard Pan Am Flight 103, in particular possible positive changes in life that could occur as a result of experiencing a traumatic loss.
I have worked in many kinds of treatment settings, including a state psychiatric hospital, day treatment programs, managed care, and an outpatient clinic for victims of crime and abuse. I have been in a solo private practice for 5 years.
Some of my specialties include the use of nonviolent communication in therapy, relationships, and parenting (I teach parenting classes); healing of early trauma; coherence therapy; psychotherapy with persons diagnosed with schizophrenia, and informing others about the dangers of psychiatric medications.
Therapy with me
Should you choose to work with me as your therapist, I will be doing my best to build a trusting, caring relationship with you because I believe that the quality of our relationship is the foundation upon which change will occur. Moreover, in research that has been done on psychotherapy effectiveness, it has been shown that what matters most is not the therapist's theoretical orientation or the diagnosis of the client, but rather, how each rates the quality of their relationship with one other.
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