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Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology, August 2001
Dissertation: Earned Security in Young Adulthood:Adjustment and Relationship Quality
Major Area Paper: The Nature of Earned Secure Attachment
Major professors: Jeffry A. Simpson, Ph.D. & W. Steven Rholes, Ph.D.
Honors: Recipient of the Women’s Faculty Network Scholarship, 1999
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
Master of Science in Clinical Psychology, August 1997
Thesis: Dating Relationships Under Threat: An Adult Attachment Perspective
Major Professor: Jeffry A. Simpson, Ph.D.
Honors: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society member
The College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, May 1993
Major Paper: Human mate preferences: Sex differences in the importance of sociosexuality and status
Major Professors: Constance J. Pilkington, Ph.D. & Lee Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.
Honors: Psi Chi Honor Society member
Any thourough-going therapy needs to help the client accept and confront the mystery which enfolds us all…
James Bugental,
The Art of the Psychotherapist
