Metropolitan St. Louis Psychiatric Center Psychology Faculty

BRIDGET GRAHAM, Psy.D., is a Missouri licensed psychologist and Health Service Provider. She received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Nova Southeastern University, interned at the St. Louis Psychology Internship Consortium, and completed her post-doctoral residency at the Sexual Offender Rehab and Treatment Center (formerly MSOTC). Her clinical interests include sex offender assessment and treatment, forensic assessment, personality disorders, psychopathy, and expert witness testimony. She is currently working on the forensic competency restoration unit.

DEBRA A. LUECHTEFELD, Psy.D., a Licensed Psychologist and certified Health Service Provider, is the Internship Coordinator for MPC. She received her doctorate from Forest Institute of Professional Psychology and has extensive experience working with severely mentally ill adults. She is the Chairperson of the Provision of Care Committee and a member of both the Quality Council and the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Consultation Team. Her clinical interests include Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, personality disorders and group psychotherapy.

RICK SCOTT, Ph.D. is a Licensed Psychologist and Certified Forensic Examiner, and works with the Forensic Pretrial Program. He completed his B.S. in Psychology and Philosophy from Bradley University in 1983 and his M.S.(R) and Ph.D. from St. Louis University in 1989 and 1991 respectively. He conducts pretrial, presentence and sexual predator commitment evaluations, and he supervises interns who do the Forensic Evaluation rotation while at MPC. In his training of interns, he emphasizes detailed interviewing and judicious use of psychological testing, diagnostic accuracy, and writing defensible reports for the courts.

RACHAEL SPRINGMAN, Ph.D., is a Licensed Psychologist and Certified Forensic Examiner and works with the Forensic Pretrial Program. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame, her M.A. in Forensic Psychology from the University of Denver, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Her internship was jointly sponsored by the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and the Federal Correctional Center in Butner, North Carolina. Her clinical interests include forensic evaluation, malingering, diagnostic accuracy, expert testimony, and report writing.

LAURA R. TISHEY, Psy.D., is a Missouri licensed psychologist and Health Service Provider. She received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, Illinois. At MPC, she is the Chairperson of the Patient Rights Committee and Team Leader for the Dialectical Behavior Therapy consultation team. She is currently working in the Forensic Pretrial/Competency Restoration Program.