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Dr. Donna Mahoney

Donna Mahoney, Ph.D., is a core faculty and Director of Training for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at the Family Institute.. Her clinical work spans almost 29-years, focusing on anxiety disorders, phobias, trauma, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She taught for 16 years at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, teaching courses entitled Family and Marriage Counseling, Psychoanalytic Theories and Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Counseling, among others. Additionally, she served as the Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Mental Health program at Argosy University for 1 ½ years. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Social Work from the Institute for Clinical Social Work and advanced training at the Institute for Psychoanalysis. Among presentations on topics related to anxiety and trauma, she co-presented at the Society for Psychotherapy Integration on an integrative model for PTSD and complex trauma. A version of her published article, “Panic Disorder and Self States: Clinical and Research Illustrations” was presented at the International Conference for the Psychology of the Self. She also has published book reviews and scholarly articles in The Journal of Counseling in Illinois and The Psychoanalytic Social Work Journal where she is on the editorial board.

Email: dmahoney@family-institute.org