Jody Bleiberg, Ph.D., ABSNP
Dr. Bleiberg, licensed in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia, has dual training and credentialing as a school psychologist and clinical psychologist. She received her Masters Degree in Education from Boston State College in 1978 and worked for five years as a certified school psychologist in Massachusetts and Illinois. In 1990, Dr. Bleiberg received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University. In 2017, Dr. Bleiberg was granted Diplomate status by the American Board of School Neuropsychology, LLC.
Dr. Bleiberg's clinical experience covers a wide range, from infants to adults and from normal development to severe emotional disorders, in settings ranging from schools to hospitals. She has extensive training and experience in conducting therapy and completing neuropsychological, psychological, and educational evaluations. Since moving to the Washington area, she has trained and practiced in several hospitals and clinics, such as the Washington V.A., Washington Hospital Center, Suburban Hospital, and the Treatment and Learning Center. For the last twenty years, she has limited her practice to child and adult neuropsychological, psychological, psychoeducational, and admission evaluations, as well as lecturing on personality and cognitive psychology. Dr. Bleiberg has held faculty positions at George Washington University and Georgetown University and has provided clinical psychology training at Catholic University. She has been a featured speaker at many local public and private schools and agencies, a presenter at an international conference on adolescence, has published in the area of drug addiction, and has developed numerous parent and student education seminars.
Dr. Bleiberg has a passion for understanding the whole individual. Her training and expertise in school, clinical, and neuropsychology come together in her diagnostic and treatment consultations, assessments, and recommendations, reflecting a holistic and multifaceted view of the client, family, and educational environment. Dr. Bleiberg believes psychiatric diagnoses are based upon symptoms and syndromes, and while common symptom patterns are seen, each person has a unique and variable clinical presentation. Diagnosis also does not address the actual cause or underlying personality make-up that trigger symptoms. The contributors to life difficulties need to be viewed from the perspective of the interaction of multisystemic contributors.
Aside from formal training, Dr. Bleiberg has gained practical experience from being the mother of four children.
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