Professional Staff (Please scroll down to see staff bio's)  

                                               

Director of Counseling, Testing, and Mental Health

Linda Wolszon, Ph.D. (Staff at CTMH since 2006)

Graduate Training:  University of Texas at Austin, Counseling Psychology, 1997

Theoretical Orientation: Integrationist, including: Interpersonal, Psychodynamic, Family Systems Theories, informed by feminist and multicultural perspectives.

Professional Interests: Relationships and Healthy Communication, Identity Development, Trauma Recovery, Addictions, LGBTQ concerns, Group Psychotherapy, Spirituality and Well-being, Organizational Consultation and Change, Ethical and Philosophical Underpinnings of Psychology Theory and Practice

Quote:  “And as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” --Marianne Williamson

 

Psychologists/Licensed Professional Counselors

Monica Kintigh, Ph.D., LPC (Staff at CTMH since 1994)

Graduate Training: Counseling, Development and Higher Education, University of North Texas, 1999, School Psychology, University of Dayton, 1984.

Theoretical Orientation: Integrative (Adlerian, Existential, Solution-focused, Cognitive-Behavioral)

Professional Interest Includes: Grief, Stress Management, Relationships, Depression/suicide.

Quote – “Our lives are a narrative process. Others may have helped to write the stories of our childhood, but we have the power to determine how and who will write the stories of our future.”
 

John Koechel, Ph.D., Diplomate, AAPM  (Staff at CTMH since 1999)

Graduate Training:  Vanderbilt and Houston

Theoretical Orientation : Eclectic

Professional Interests Include:  Positive Psychology, Somatopsychology and Industrial Psychology

Quote- “Be ashamed to die, until you, have won some victory for humanity.” --Horace Mann

Elizabeth Koshy, Ph.D. (Staff at CTMH since 2007)

Graduate Training: Counseling Psychology, Texas Woman’s University, 2005

Theoretical Orientation: Client-Centered, Relational Empowerment

Professional Interests: Cultural Identity, Faith/Spirituality, Gender, and Disability Issues

Quote: “In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference.” --Rabbi Jonathan Sacks from The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

Eric C. Wood, Ph.D., LPC  (Staff at CTMH since 2007)

Graduate Training: Counseling Psychology, University of North Texas, 2007

Theoretical Orientation: Integrative (Attachment, Interpersonal, Cognitive-Behavioral, Family Systems)

Professional Interest Includes: Relationship concerns and diversity issues.

Quote – “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Testing Coordinator

Margaret Thompson, M.A., LPC (Staff at CTMH since 1967)

Graduate Training: Texas Christian University

Theoretical Orientation: Eclectic

Professional Interest Includes: Learning Disability Assessment and Neuropsychology

 

Consulting Psychiatrist
Robert Knipstein, M.D., P.A.
Daralynn Deardorff, D.O.

 

Administrative Assistants
Joanne Fletcher (Staff at CTMH since 2007)
Diane Norton   (Staff at CTMH since 1997)