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Yvette L. Ward, Psy.D.
Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Ward has an extensive background in psychology and business, including experience in psychological assessment, psychotherapy, parent coaching, and adult training. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from George Fox University where she also taught psychology. She has provided mental health services in hospital, outpatient, nursing homes, assisted living, and university settings. Her private practice includes psychotherapy (families, couples, geriatric, adults, teens, and children), parent coaching, and psychological assessments. She has a special interest in helping parents successfully "launch" their young adult children.
Dr. Ward has developed curricula for Men's Anger Management Groups and Couple's Intimacy Groups. Her interest in improving and strengthening relationships between parents and children has produced the Happy Homes Chore Management System, literature on responding to children's emotional reactions, and parent training groups on Emotion Coaching. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Ward teaches principles of healthy family dynamics at Working Solutions and offers consulting services to daycare centers.
Dr. Ward has received specialized training in the interface of psychology with religion, theology, and spiritual formation. For those who wish to do so, her practice provides a setting in which clients may draw upon their personal spiritual principles and beliefs when confronting emotional and psychological issues.