CLINICIANS
Here is a list of mental healthcare acronyms that might be of help:
AAMFT – American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
ACSW – Academy of Clinical Social Work
LCSW – Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Usually requiring a minimum of a Master's degree in Social Work. Refers to those licensed by a state board to provide Social Work based mental therapy.
LMFT – Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
LPC – Licensed Professional Counselor: Usually requires a minimum of a Master’s degree in Counseling along with post graduate supervised experience.
MD – Psychiatrist – Medical Doctor of Psychiatry
MS – Master of Science
MSW – Master of Social Work
PhD - Focuses on original research, data analysis and the evaulation of theory. Indicates experience in both research and clinical work.
PsyD – Doctorate of Psychology is a degree that focuses on the clinical and applied aspects of psychology.
RN – Registered Nurse
SAC – Substance Abuse Counselor: a mental health counselor specializing in treating patients who have a chemical dependency on drugs or alcohol.
Though our clinicians have obtained their degrees through various educational and training programs, they all maintain qualifications that offer excellent methods of mental health counseling. Though we do couples therapy and occasionally have group work, much of the therapy that our clinicians provide is very individually based. It tends to rely on a collaborative approach of mental health counseling and has a flexible outlook on methodologies of counseling, social work, and psychology.
Michael D. Bates
Specializing in anxiety, depression, children and school problems, family therapy, divorce, grief, and sexual assault.
Misty Christensen
Helps client identify personal strengths in order to promote healing and well-being. Can provide psychological assessment.
Susan Doerflinger
Specializes in patients with substance abuse, bipolar, mood and panic disorders, emotional eating, and work and career issues.
Daniel Huber
Sees patients from 4 years of age through adulthood. Specializes in family and marital therapy, spectrum disorders, and relationships.
Darcy McDaniel
Works with children through older adults on issues pertaining to family issues, grief, depression, including individuals with persistent and serious mental illness.
Enis Novalija
Provides psychotherapy for adolescents, adults, and couples. Specializes in substance abuse, eating disorders, and trauma. Runs group therapy.
Cristina Soto Sullivan
Specializes in grief/loss, new transitions, work/career concerns, relationship issues, and identity concerns.
Katt Cochran
Specializing in life transitions, identity exploration and development, relationship concerns, anxiety, depression, grief/loss, and concerns related to traumas experienced, including intergenerational and systemic trauma.
Sara Goetz
Licensed marital and family therapist. Also sees patients for eating disorders, OCD, mood disorders, and anger management.
Doris Johnson-Browne
Specializes in relationship issues, sexual assault, domestic violence, multicultural issues, and mood disorders.
Jade Mueller
My strength is merging an accepting and empowering understanding of human lives with effective treatment methods.
Lynn M Ollswang
Specializes in helping people heal from within discovering their strengths and embracing their pasts to understand their anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, chronic illness, women's issues, and group therapy.
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Vicki Spaulding
Specializes in treating anxiety, depression, CBT, and is also trauma treatment certified.
W. Hobart Davies
Specializing in social skills, eating disorders, and chronic illness. Adults and children from 5 years old. Also sees patients at Wauwatosa office.
Marjorie Hawkins
General psychiatry with adults and adolescents, 16 yrs. and older. Specializes in postpartum depression. Medication management.
S. Shakoor Lee
Psychotherapy for adult individuals and couples. Provides EMDR, trauma counseling. Interested in diverse cultures and ethnicity.
Lonni Mueller
Specializing in sexual difficulties, dysfunctions, sexual abuse, depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
Nathaniel Ray
Adult psychiatry and medication management. Also works with patients having substance abuse issues.
Jan Van Schaik
General adult psychiatry with a special interest in the treatment of depression and anxiety.