(From Natural Awakenings, December 2002)

Welcome, New Neighbor!

Dr. Elizabeth Fisher, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, has relocated her practice from Chicago to St. Petersburg, FL. Dr. Fisher has a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and practiced in the Chicago area for 15 years.

In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Fisher has taught at Northwestern University, Northeastern Illinois University, and Illinois School of Professional Psychology. She has done psychotherapy research at Northwestern Memorial Hospital Institute of Psychiatry, and won a research award for discovering how gender bias (and bias towards any non-dominant group) affects people in therapy.

Dr. Fisher's grandparents and father were born and raised in India and China. She has practiced Vipassana meditation and metta (loving kindness meditation) for eight years, and Taoist cultivation and Qi Gong in the Wudang tradition (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) for nine years. These practices produce a calm, non-judging connection within which emotional work happens remarkably quickly.

Dr. Fisher's specialties include depression and women, trauma, learning disabilities and ADD, underachievement, and immunological disorders (including fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivity, environmental illness, allergies, and chronic fatigue). Dr. Fisher also provides confidential evaluation of memory and intellectual processing in order to increase level of functioning and protect one's ability to keep a job, remain in a relationship, and live independently. Evaluations can sometimes be done on an emergency basis.

Dr. Fisher works with adults, adolescents, children, and couples. Services available include psychological/neuropsychological evaluation, counseling and psychotherapy, play therapy, medical management, and use of altered states to access parts of the self split off due to trauma.

For additional information, call Dr. Fisher at (727) 344-1110.