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Dr. Elam has an M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University. She has been in private practice in Nashville, TN since 1989, working with adults and older adolescents. She is licensed as a psychologist/health service provider in the state of Tennessee. Dr. Elam's holistic focus on integrating mind, body, & spirit led her to complete formal training in massage & bodywork through the Natural Health Institute in Nashville, TN in 2001. She has also studied the spiritual education and healing systems of Keylontic Science and Kathara Bio-Spiritual Healing as presented by the Azurite Press MCEO. After completing her NHI training, she became additionally licensed as a massage therapist in order to have a license whose scope of practice allows subtle bodywork and healing modalities such as craniosacral therapy and Kathara. She is a certified Kathara Bio-Spiritual Healing System facilitator. Dr. Elam's bachelor's degree from Mississippi University for Women is in journalism and English. She worked as a newspaper reporter, editor, and columnist for several years before entering graduate school in 1983, and continues to express herself and reach out to entertain and educate others through creative and journalistic writing. She served as the Emotional Health & Well-being Expert for iVillage, Inc.'s AllHealth.com website from January 1998 through December 2000. As iVillage's expert on emotional and mental health issues, she wrote a question-and-answer column, occasional commentary and articles for WorkingDiva.com (another iVillage affiliate) and AllHealth, and hosted a weekly chat session on emotional health issues. (Click here to access archives of her past AllHealth columns.) She has also published poetry in Radiance magazine and The Journal of Sacred Feminine Wisdom. Tulip Poplar Press of Middle Tennessee State University published a limited edition letterpress poster of her poem "Sacred Space" in early 2004. She is the founder and president of Pearlsong Press, Inc., a publishing company providing personally empowering, mind-body-spirit-positive fiction and nonfiction that entertains as well as enriches and informs. Dr. Elam has been guest "speaker" for chat sessions on America Online ("Holiday Stress and Depression"), WebMD ("Stress and Eating") and the Something Fishy Website on Eating Disorders, in addition to hosting her own weekly chat session at Allhealth.com for several years. She has been interviewed and quoted by local and national media, including the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the Nashville Tennessean, the Nashville City Paper, Mademoiselle, Teen magazine, American Salon, BBC television, Nashville public television, Baltimore, MD public television, and writers for Rodale Press, on issues ranging from anxiety to eating disorders and body image to menopause. She has also provided consultation to individuals, agencies, and organizations including the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, iVillage.com, the Veterans Administration psychology service, and Rogaine for Women. Dr. Elam's psychology and psychotherapy training includes client-centered/ humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, family systems, depth psychology, and personal coaching. She blends these and other approaches in a collaborative relationship in which she helps clients find and honor their own truths. 1995 President, Nashville Psychological Association 2000 President, Tennessee Women in Medicine 1999-2001 Editor, International Society for the Study of Dissociation News (newsletter) Served on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Psychological Association as newsletter editor for two years in the mid-1990s. Professional Advisory Board member: Council for Women's Nutrition Solutions
GirlForce Member: International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology American Psychological Association Nashville Area Psychological Association Association for Size Diversity and Health Kathara Alliance National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance |
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