Dr. Crawford, a California native who has joyfully lived in various states now residing in magnificent Texas, earned her APA-accredited Doctoral and Master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA. She is the CEO of Dr. Crawford and Associates, providing innovative psychotherapy services and Leadership Consulting where she and her team utilize specialized therapy, coaching, and consulting tailored to overcome self-sabotage, optimize performance and enrich the enjoyment of life and leadership. As a lifelong learner and lover of people, she enjoys teaching as an adjunct professor at The King’s University. As a conference speaker, she delights in sharing her insight and expertise covering a range of topics speaking to business leaders, church audiences, for youth and women’s events both in the U.S. and internationally including speaking for conferences in Singapore, Indonesia, India, Brazil, and Bangladesh! Dr. Crawford is passionate to partner with healthy organizations and initiatives to end human trafficking.
Specialties:
As a clinical psychologist, with over 15-years of combined training and experience. Through constantly partnering with The Holy Spirit, innovating Restoring-Self-Cohesion (RSC), a hybrid approach that conceptualizes from a psychodynamic orientation that holistically blends inner healing models, wellness approaches, and positive psychology to cultivate optimal performance tailored for the individual’s needs. It is my joy to share the RSC model with leaders and influencers who can remove blind spots, leading from self-awareness, to foster an emotionally healthy culture for those they lead.
Population:
Leaders and influencers wanting to resolve the unconscious blocks below self-sabotage, insecurity, glass ceilings, burnout, emotional outbursts, and counterproductive relationship dynamics that keep you from thriving personally, relationally, spiritually, and vocationally. Leaders and influencers don’t have to have a title. A leader is anyone who recognizes that your life is bigger than just you. Whether it’s your family, friends, a corporation or a non-profit, the people around you ARE impacted by the health or lack of health of your soul. When leaders and influencers are unhealthy the negative ripple effect is widespread and demoralizing for those in your wake. While positive reinforcement in leadership equips, calls up, and helps platform others. Instead of being easily threatened and possessive of our position and title, when we cultivate and empower the right people around us, our leadership goes from temporal to enduring legacy. How exciting to consider influence from good to great so the positive ripple effect of being an empowering leader can bring out the best in others… the impact could be global… you could be a forerunner for a positive global movement through your sphere of influence!
Education:
B.A. in Psychology from Azusa Pacific University, graduating with Psy Chi honors.
M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Regent University.
Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Regent University. Defended dissertation “Efficacy of the Parrott’s Marriage Mentoring Program” under dissertation chair, Dr. Jennifer Ripley.
Certified in, and helped run research for, the Hope-Focused Couples Counseling approach.
1 year of post-doctoral fellowship with Brookhaven Institute for Psychoanalysis and Christian Theology.