Dr. Kathleen Young
Psy.D.
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Trauma Expert
Dr. Kathleen Young Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Trauma and its aftermath, LGBT community
- Career Focus
- Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapy and Consultation
Dr. Young is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience. She incorporates aspects of psychodynamic, relational therapy and dialectical behavior therapy into her approach to psychotherapy. Her career focus has been on treating trauma and its aftermath.
She is also an EMDR trained therapist. She has coordinated a program dedicated to providing education about and treatment for intimate partner, interpersonal and community violence in the LGBT communities. She currently lives and practices in Tucson, Arizona.
Dr. Young received her doctorate in clinical psychology (Psy.D.) from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 1990. She is licensed in Arizona and Illinois.
Areas of expertise:
• Survivors of childhood abuse
• Intimate partner violence
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Eating disorders
• Post traumatic stress
• Dissociative disorders
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender issues
• Gender identity
• Relationship issues
• Personality disorders
• Self-injury
• Adult children/partners of alcoholics
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7 Things You Can Do Right Now To Start Feeling Better
Anxious? Depressed? Stressed? Overwhelmed by trauma memories? You will want to do things to help yourself feel better as quickly as possible, without doing anything that has negative consequences. It takes time to recover but there are simple things you can do right now. 1. Get enough sleep. ...
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Trauma and Anxiety
Anxiety is more than just a feeling. As a product of the body's fight-or-flight response, anxiety involves a wide range of physical symptoms. Because of the numerous physical symptoms, anxiety sufferers often mistake their disorder for a medical illness. You may have visited many doctors and ...
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Assessing Homophobia
Concepts like homophobia can be tricky. We all get the extreme examples like physically attacking someone because they are gay. But what about more subtle manifestations of fear or discomfort with non-heterosexual people? The Riddle Homophobia Scale was developed to further elucidate this ...
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The Heterosexuality Questionnaire
People with homosexual or bisexual orientations have long been stigmatized. The same is the case for those who are gender non-conforming or who feel their assigned at birth sex or gender does not match their true selves. Heterosexism is a term used to describe the belief that heterosexuality ...
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Childhood Abuse: When the past is present
WHAT IS CHILDHOOD ABUSE? Child abuse can take the form of any act of emotional, physical or sexual abuse perpetrated against a child. Child abuse can also take the form of neglect: ignoring the child's emotional and or physical needs. Child abuse can take place inside and outside of the ...
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Online Therapy: Is it for You?
Online therapy (also referred to as Internet therapy, distance therapy, cyber therapy or e-therapy) is used to describe the variety of ways a professional counselor or psychotherapist can communicate with you over the Internet or telephone. It may consist of emotional support, mental health ...
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Is Suffering Optional?
My title is prompted by the oft repeated phrase: Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. What is your experience of this? Is suffering optional? Is that even a desirable goal? Or are there experiences that automatically cause suffering? Is there a function to “suffering” or feeling one’s feelings fully that is crucial to healing? Sometime I post quotes of the day on Twitter. I like searching for and finding a phrase that resonates, speaks to some inner truth for me. Recently I chose “We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full” by Marcel Proust.
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Contacting Dr. Kathleen Young
For more information:
Kathleen Young, Psy.D.
Email: drkathleenyoung@hushmail.com
Or check out my blog: Treating Trauma in Chicago