| Karen M. Falla, Ph.D. |
Licensed Psychologist
Clinical Neuropsychology
Child, Adolescent, and Adult
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Dr. Falla founded Neuropsychology Consultants with a vision of bringing together outstanding clinicians offering state-of-the art evaluation and treatment in the fields of clinical psychology and neuropsychology. She is a licensed psychologist with a specialization in Clinical Neuropsychology, focusing on the evaluation and treatment of individuals across the developmental lifespan who are experiencing cognitive, emotional, or behavioral difficulties.
In working with children and adolescents, she helps to enhance understanding of their functioning in several domains, considering strengths and weaknesses, and helps to develop a plan of intervention to help the child or adolescent fulfill their potential in multiple domains of life. Typical referral issues include ADHD, learning disabilities, seizure disorder, autism spectrum disorders, neurodevelopmental problems, and traumatic brain injury. She also helps with emotional difficulties, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and adjustment disorder.
In working with adults, she assists with differential diagnosis of dementia and other neurologically-based problems in adults and geriatric individuals. Typical referral issues include Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, brain tumor, seizure disorder, and traumatic brain injury. She works with individuals and families in psychotherapy to help them work towards positive emotional adaptation to life changes associated with a family member’s decline in cognitive or physical functioning. She treats her patients with compassion and respect as they seek to understand the basis of problems they are experiencing, and discusses with them practical and accessible ways of improving their quality of life.
Dr. Falla received her doctorate in clinical psychology (APA-approved) and her master’s degree in psychology from the University of North Texas, and she received her bachelor’s degrees in psychology and computer science from Arizona State University. She evaluated children receiving neuro-oncology services at Cook Children’s Medical Center in preparing her dissertation, “The Relationship between Executive and Psychosocial Functioning in Children Treated for a Brain Tumor.” She had a focus on neuropsychological evaluation and treatment of both children and adults during her graduate practica with the Traumatic Brain Injury Program at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas; Baylor Our Children’s House in Dallas; and Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth.
She furthered her specialized clinical training on internship at the APA-approved Oklahoma Health Consortium in Oklahoma City (including rotations at the Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Hospital, Neuropsychology Associates at the Mercy Hospital Neuroscience Institute, and the Child Study Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center); and her postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at the Center for Psychological Development in Sherman, Texas, where she conducted in-depth neuropsychological evaluations with both inpatient and outpatient populations. Inpatient settings included acute care, rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and psychiatry.
Dr. Falla has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of North Texas. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (including Division 40: Division of Clinicial Neuropsychology) and the National Academy of Neuropsychology.
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| Janida L. Rice, Ph.D. |
Licensed Psychologist
Clinical Psychology
Child, Adolescent, and Adult
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Dr. Rice earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Texas A&M University. Prior to that, she earned her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Psychology from Texas Woman’s University. She has served as Associate Director of the University of North Texas Psychology Clinic and continues to conduct research with their faculty. She worked many years as a research scientist at Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB), coordinating research efforts at 10 hospital sites throughout the United States.
Her clinical work includes psychological assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults, including the geriatric population. She has provided lectures and consultations on stress management, reduction of test anxiety, and improvement of relationship skills. She has conducted a Pain Management Program where she provided assessment, therapy, and psychoeducational groups for individuals suffering from chronic pain.
She provided psychological services to children, adolescents, and adults with chronic medical conditions in both inpatient and outpatient settings while at UTMB. She also has conducted academic and career counseling to at-risk students and provided study skills workshops to students struggling academically, and has provided vocational and marital counseling.
Dr. Rice has served as Editorial Associate for the Clinician’s Research Digest, an American Psychological Association publication. She has co-authored peer-reviewed research papers and given presentations on a variety of subjects, including job satisfaction, quality of life in individuals with orthopedic impairment, rehabilitation, marital satisfaction among older adults, and outcomes for individuals having medical rehabilitation following stroke. |
| Phillip E. Morris, Psy.D. |
Postdoctoral Fellow
Clinical Neuropsychology
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Dr. Morris joined our practice following completion of his doctorate from the APA-accredited clinical psychology program at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California, where he had an emphasis in Family Psychology. He completed his predoctoral internship at Wasatch Mental Health in Provo, Utah, where he conducted comprehesive neuropsychological and psychological evaluations and provided psychotherapy. His dissertation is entitled "Enhancing Parent-Child Attachments in Middle Childhood."
His experience also includes a neuropsychological assessment practicum at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California, where he worked with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of cancer, brain tumors, or chronic medical illness such as sickle cell anemia or hemophilia. At McKinley Children's Center in San Dimas, California, he provided individual and family psychotherapy to predominantly Latino foster children and adolescents. At the Pediatric Developmental Institute, a university-based assessment and treatment center, he conducted neuropsycholoical assessment with children and adolescents. He also completed a clinical practicum at Azusa Pacific University in the Child and Family Development Center, where he provided individual, family, and couples therapy.
Dr. Morris will be working under Dr. Falla's supervision during his fellowship at Neuropsychology Consultants as he completes his requirements for licensure as a psychologist.
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Brandi Buchanan, M.A. |
Predoctoral Intern
Clinical Psychology
Pediatric and Adult |
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Brandi is a clinical psychology doctoral student at Walden University who is completing a year-long secondary rotation in our office as part of her predoctoral internship. Brandi received her Master of Divinity in Theology from Baylor University in Waco, Texas and her Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Studies (psychology and sociology) from East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas. Prior to beginning her doctoral degree in clinical psychology, she worked as a minister in and around Waco, Texas. Since completing her coursework, Brandi has been trained in both psychological and neuropsychological evaluation procedures. She currently performs evaluations for both children and adults, and she conducts therapy for children and young adults. |
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