Dr. Katrina Kuzyszyn-Jones (Kuzyszyn rhymes with musician, so pronounced koosician) holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, a Master’s in Forensic Psychology, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a minor in Women’s Studies. Dr. Kuzyszyn-Jones is experienced in individual and group therapy, crisis management, psychodiagnostic testing, and forensic evaluations. She has extensive treatment experience with adults, college students, and adolescents, and works with individuals, groups, couples, and families. She has been serving clients in a variety of settings for the past ten years.

Her clinical experience in treating adults and teens spans the breadth of mental health issues, to include working with individuals who are coping with common daily stressors and life challenges or transitions, as well as those problems that arise from interpersonal and family conflict such as relationship conflict, divorce, adjusting to college, substance abuse, and GLBT issues. In addition, Dr. Kuzyszyn-Jones specializes in working with people coping with severe and persistent mental illness, to include their family members. This encompasses a wide range of illnesses such as bipolar disorder, major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and borderline and antisocial personality disorders. She is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), commonly used to treat Borderline Personality Disorder.
                    
Therapy and psychoeducational groups conducted by Dr. Kuzyszyn-Jones have included CBT process groups, DBT groups, social skills development, conflict resolution, trauma, domestic violence, and co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse. In addition to her therapy skills, Dr. Kuzyszyn-Jones has extensive specialized experience in psychological and educational assessment, and conducts comprehensive evaluations for AD/HD, learning disorders, personality factors, psychological and emotional functioning, addictions assessments, and suicide risk assessments. She also conducts psychoeducational trainings.

Her forensic experience includes consultation, assessment, and treatment in family, civil, and criminal law matters. Dr. Kuzyszyn-Jones has specialized skills to address a variety of forensic issues, including forensic/court-ordered evaluation such as child custody evaluations, parental competency evaluations, criminal competency evaluations, risk assessment evaluations, and malingering assessments. Her therapeutic work with teenagers has involved one of her special interest areas of delinquency diversion for teens beginning to act out, and she is involved in criminal justice diversion for teens and adults. Additionally, she has completed training as a Parent Coordinator.

Dr. Kuzyszyn-Jones was trained in an integrative therapy model to include psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, family systems, and experiential theories and techniques, all of which she uses in providing therapeutic services for a wide variety of life challenges, to address the unique needs of each client. Her dissertation was on the topic of integrated psychotherapy for clients. Each client brings a very personal and individual set of needs and desires to the experience of therapy. Dr. Kuzyszyn-Jones is sensitive to these personal factors while helping her clients identify and focus on the specific problems that are affecting them in their current daily lives.

As she finds working with undergraduate and graduate students particularly rewarding, in addition to her clinical work, Dr. Kuzyszyn-Jones teaches university students.