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Metropolitan St. Louis Psychiatric Center Psychology Faculty

BRIDGET GRAHAM, Psy.D., is a Missouri licensed psychologist at MPC.  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 MSOTC.  Her clinical interests include sex offender treatment, Antisocial Personality Disorder, psychopathy, expert witness testimony, competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility evaluations.

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 and adolescents.  She is the Chairperson of the Patient Safety Committee and a member of both the Provision of Care Committee and the Quality Council.  Her clinical interests include Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, personality disorders and group psychotherapy.

WILLIAM C. PETERSEN, Ph.D. is a Licensed Psychologist and certified Health Service Provider at MPC. He received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1990. He serves on the Board of Inquiry, is a member of the Environment of Care Committee, and currently co-chairs the Programming Taskforce that explores needed changes in facility groups and other programming areas. He is the psychologist on a special intermediate unit where he has developed a unit wide level system and behavior management program with a strong emphasis on rewards.  He also specializes in the treatment of those with PTSD, trains interns in this specialty and his current goal is to collect outcome data on the PTSD protocol he has developed.

LAURA R. TISHEY, Psy.D., is a Licensed Psychologist at MPC.  She received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, Illinois.  She is the Chairperson of the Patient Rights Committee and is a member of the Quality Council.  Her clinical experience has focused mainly on working with severely mentally ill clients in both inpatient and outpatient settings.  Her interests include substance abuse relapse prevention and psychopharmacology.