A Virginia native, Dr. Hall completed her doctorate at the University of Virginia in Clinical Child Psychology, a program approved by the American Psychological Association (APA). Her internship (also APA approved) at Case Western Reserve Medical School/University Hospitals of Cleveland was in clinical child psychology. She earned a postdoctoral Master’s degree in Clinical Psychopharmacology for the California School of Professional Psychology. She has trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and consulted on a regular basis with a national expert in eating disorders. She has also trained in Solution Focused Psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Rehabilitation (EMDR) and Fairburn’s Transdiagnostic Approach to Eating Disorders.

Her training as a child psychologist, working with problems of infant development, young children, and adolescents has assisted her throughout her career in understanding how issues, such as abuse and neglect, addictions, trauma, and biological predispositions can cause suffering throughout an individual’s life. Studying clinical psychopharmacology has added to her understanding of the biological basis and influences of emotional suffering.

Dr. Hall has been practicing since 1976 when she worked with her master’s degree in a rural mental health clinic. She has been practicing in Houston since 1982.