Christen Kishel PhD
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License & Certifications
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Qualifications
I am a licensed clinical psychologist who has been providing services in the Inland Northwest since I moved here for my predoctoral internship in the year 2000. After completing my internship at Spokane Mental Health (now Frontier Behavioral Health), I completed my dissertation, graduated with my PhD from the University of Toledo in Ohio in 2002, obtained my postdoctoral residency hours, and earned my Washington State license as a clinical psychologist in January 2004. I stayed at FBH until 2012. Along the way I received my credentials as a Mental Health Specialist, Child Mental Health Specialist and a Developmental Disabilities Mental Health Specialist in the state of Washington. After about a year in a private practice specializing in autism (ICARD, PLLC), I took a position as consulting/field psychologist with the Developmental Disabilities Administration in February 2013. It was in this position that I began providing Crisis Intervention Training for police, which led to my work in the field of emergency response. I am trained in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), and am an approved CISM instructor through the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. I have a passion for helping fire, police, EMS, dispatch, and other emergency/crisis responders to develop peer support teams. In addition to CISM, my treatment specialties include but are not limited to Police, Fire, and public safety psychology, PTSD, depression, and other challenges of the emergency response field, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), child psychology, developmental disabilities, and resilience.
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Mutual Responsibilities
We have responsibilities to each other in this treatment process. I will work with you to develop a plan of treatment that will best meet your needs. If it becomes clear that you are dealing with a problem for which I cannot be helpful, I will assist you in finding suitable treatment with another therapist. It is important for you to ask me any questions that you may have about your treatment and to realize that you always have a right to discontinue therapy or to request a change to another therapist. I will at all times seek to be a professionally responsible therapist, operating within the limits of my competence, and be ethically committed to our work together for you and your family. Your responsibility is to be an active participant in the course of your treatment.
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DR. CHRISTEN KISHEL
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