HRC Behavioral Health and Psychiatry, PA  
     

Clinical Associates of HRC

HRC has experienced licensed psychologists and social workers who see clients for the evaluation and treatment of a wide range of problems and needs such as depression, anxiety, stress management, phobias, marital and family issues, school problems, work and career issues, and substance abuse. They provide individual counseling and psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, and marital/family therapy. Services are available to individual adults, adolescents, and children, and to couples and families.

Neil Barry, PhD

Biography: Dr. Barry received his PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill. He has been in practice since 1994 and specializes in couples counseling, adult depression, anxiety, grief work, and trauma therapy. He completed Level II training in EMDR in 2000. While maintaining his practice, he has also worked at Disability Determination Services, Dorothea Dix hospital, and Wake County Crisis and Assessment Services. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at Peace College. Dr Barry is also certified with the National Multiple Schlerosis society to provide training to other mental health professionals interested in working with individuals with MS or other debilitating physical illnesses.

Peter Battis, EdD

Biography: Dr. Battis has over 25 years of clinical experience in inpatient and outpatient settings with adults, and has worked with adolescents and families since 1976. Dr. Battis joined HRC in 1991. In addition to individual and family therapy with adults and adolescents, he has a particular interest in marital therapy. He has trained in marital therapy with Dr. John Gottman. His areas of treatment specialty include individual and group therapy with adults, couples, and families; individual therapy with adolescents; stress management; conflict resolution; brief solution-focused therapy. Read More »

Charles Burnett, PhD, DrPH

Biography: Dr. Burnett completed doctorates in both Clinical Psychology and in Public Health at UNC-CH. In addition to his private practice, he is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UNC School of Medicine, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at UNC-CH. He is also Director of Psychological Services for the UNC Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Center. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and Past President of the North Carolina Psychological Association. Dr. Burnett specializes in the treatment of individuals with chronic illness, especially gastrointestinal disorders. His areas of treatment specialty include chronic illness, pain management, marital therapy, hypnosis, and stress management. Read More »

Charles Cooper, PhD

Biography: Dr. Cooper is the Executive Director of HRC. He has been in private clinical psychological practice since 1976. He is the Director of Employee Assistance Programs at HRC. Dr. Cooper also serves as the Director of Professional Affairs for the North Carolina Psychological Association. His clinical and consultation practice concentrates on the issue of conflict transformation: using the resolution of conflict to enhance satisfaction, productivity, and quality of life in families, work groups, and organizations. He offers clinical services to individuals and families, and consultation and coaching services for family owned businesses as well as larger organizations. His areas of treatment specialty include conflict resolution; mediation; adult individual and couples counseling; management coaching; and team development. Read More »

Bob Dick, PhD, AC, CGP

Biography: Dr. Dick's special strength as a therapist and hypnotherapist is developing rapid rapport through clear, warm, honest feedback. This style greatly enhances clinical techniques leading to relief, personal change, and problem solving. His approach involves a wide variety of strategies and tactics, especially hypnotic, interpersonal and cognitive-behavioral. His services include individual, couple, group, All Day Group, brief/coaching, and Eye Movement Desensitization-Reprocessing therapies. He leads four weekly psychotherapy groups, four monthly training groups for psychotherapists, three All-Day hypnosis groups (Feb, June, and Oct), and three half-day Impasse Resolution groups (Nov, March, and July). Read More »

Ronald Fox, PhD

Biography: Dr. Fox is a Past President of the American Psychological Association. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Society for Personality Assessment. He is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology at UNC-CH. He was a professor, Director of Psychology and Internship Training, and Director of the Family Therapy Clinic at the Ohio State University School of Medicine; and was founding Dean of Ohio’s first School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University where he served from 1977-1992. He was the 1994 recipient of the American Psychological Foundation award for distinguished professional contributions, and is the first psychologist appointed by the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Council for Health Professional Education. Dr. Fox’s areas of treatment specialty include organizational development and management consultation; executive coaching; and workforce diversity. Read More »

Martha Hamilton, PhD

Biography: Dr. Hamilton has been in private practice since 1978. Prior to that she served as a psychologist at Children’s Psychiatric Institute and as a part time Clinical Professor in the School Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina. She is a general practice psychologist who works with adults, adolescents, and children. She is a Certified Imago Couples therapist and a trained sex therapist. She is interested in working with people who want to have more satisfying relationships and sex lives. She also has extensive experience in: the evaluation of both adults and children with Attention Deficit Disorders and Learning Disabilities; the evaluation and treatment of children/adolescents who have learning and/or social-emotional problems; working on parenting issues; consulting with parents and schools on working with the learning disabled; and treating characterological problems. Other areas of interest and experience include working with people who want to supplement their work in various 12-Step programs with more professional family-of-origin work, and working with multiple personality and dissociative disorders. Read More »

Deborah Heil, PhD

Biography: Dr. Heil is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with a variety of issues including depression, anxiety, chronic pain, grief relationship problems, post trauma, co-morbid substance abuse, ADHD, and dysfunctional eating. She received her PhD from Kent State University in Ohio, and then practiced in a community mental health clinic in North Carolina for 16 years, working from staff psychologist to Outpatient Director. She developed an internship program there for psychology students and helped to build their psychological testing services. She has extensive training in personality assessment using the MMPI-2 and the Rorschach Inkblot Test. Her primary treatment style uses cognitive therapy techniques as well as other solution focused approaches. Dr. Heil’s areas of treatment specialty include individual, group, and couples’ therapy with adults; a special interest in geriatric populations, and psychological testing – both cognitive, and personality.

Charles Holton, LCSW

Biography: Mr. Holton received his Masters in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He worked at the Granville County Mental Health Center and at Kaiser Permanente before joining HRC. He is the Past President of the North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He has taught psychotherapy to psychiatry residents at Duke and to social work graduate students at UNC-CH, as well as supervised both graduate students from East Carolina and psychtherapists in private practice. He has studied intensively the self-relations approach to psychotherapy with Stephen Gilligan, PhD and co-sponsors an annual weeklong residential training on the NC coast. He has led workshops in Ericksonian and narrative psychotherapy, hypnosis, and self-relations. Mr. Holton provides psychotherapy for adults, couples, and groups. He currently co-leads a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy group in Raleigh and leads a Chronic Pain Support Group in Chapel Hill. He also provides consultation to organizations. His areas of interest and treatment specialty include anxiety (especially social phobia and post-traumatic stress disorder), depression, trauma resolution, marital therapy, family therapy, and pain reduction and management. Read More »

Bohdan Hrynewych, LCSW, LCAS

Biography: Bohdan Hrynewych is a licensed clinical social worker and a licensed additions specialist with almost twenty years of experience in mental health and substance abuse treatment. Mr. Hrynewych (also known as "Bo") was the coordinator of adolescent dual diagnosis treatment at Duke Hospital and later the clinical director of the Duke Addictions Program between 1999 and 2000. He has extensive training in family therapy, group therapy, and addictions treatment, and is a well-known trainer for mental health and substance abuse professionals. In his practice he sees adults and adolescents with anxiety, mood disorders, substance abuse issues, and problems in their family relationships. He specializes in working with young people, ages 10-25, and their families. Mr. Hrynewych offers groups for adults in recovery from the abuse of mood altering substances and other compulsive behaviors. He also offers groups for young people, ages 17-25, who are having difficulty moving towards successful adulthood for reasons as diverse as ADHD, severe mental illness, and family conflict. Mr. Hrynewych uses cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnosis, mind-body interventions, competence based family therapy, and self-psychology in his therapeutic work.

Joan Jobsis, PhD

Biography: Dr. Joan Murray-Jobsis is an internationally recognized expert in the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy. Dr. Jobsis is skilled in the traditional uses of psychotherapy and in working with problems of depression, anxiety, personality disorders and thought disorders. In addition, based on her three decades of experience and clinical work, Dr. Jobsis has found that the integration of hypnosis with psychotherapy is particularly useful in dealing with many clinical problems including: pain management; anxiety reduction; eating disorders; smoking cessation; and management of chronic illness. Read More »

Betsi Koszalka, MBA, PhD

Biography: Dr. Koszalka has been in private practice since 1976. She is a general practice psychologist with extensive experience in treating adolescents, families, and couples. Dr. Koszalka also has a special interest in consultation and organizational development to build effective teams and organizations, develop leadership capabilities, and manage change successfully. She also treats women with a history of abuse or major disruption in their family of origin. Other areas of interest and experience include evaluation of learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders and consultation with parents and educators in meeting the needs of learning disabled adolescents and ADHD children. Dr. Koszalka’s areas of treatment specialty include organizational development; executive coaching and leadership development; change management; individual, marital, and family therapy (NC Board Certified); child/adolescent therapy; adult children of alcoholics; adults abused as children; psychological testing of children with school, adjustment, and learning problems.

Elena Lea, PhD

Biography: Dr. Lea obtained her doctorate from the University of Florida in 1999. Dr. Lea specializes in the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, and their families. She conducts comprehensive psychological evaluations, including testing for learning disabilities and ADHD. In addition, she provides individual and family therapy, as well as parenting consultation. She also consults with physicians, parents, and educators about how best to meet the needs of children. Dr. Lea holds memberships in the American Psychological Association and the North Carolina Psychological Association. Her areas of treatment specialty include child/adolescent therapy, psychological testing of children with school, adjustment, and learning problems, parenting skills, anxiety and depression in children and adolescents.

Deborah Graves McFarlane, PhD

Biography: Dr. McFarlane is a Licensed Psychologist who received her PhD (Clinical/Community Psychology) at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She serves on the Boards of North Carolina Psychological Association and of Human Resource Consultants. Prior to joining HRC in 1997, she was staff psychologist at the University of Iowa Hospitals/Clinics, working with individuals suffering with acute/chronic pain and other medical illnesses, as well as the Faculty of Behavioral Medicine at West Virginia University. In her private practice her areas of treatment interest/experience include: anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders in adults and older adolescents; chronic pain and psychological Interventions with people experiencing medical illnesses; performance enhancement training; anger management; and smoking cessation. Read More »

Steven Mullinix, PhD

Biography: Dr. Mullinix is a Licensed Psychologist and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Human Resource Consultants. He is also a Consulting Psychologist with the RTP office of Drake Beam Morin (DBM), an international career management/outplacement firm. Dr. Mullinix works with individual adults and couples with a special emphasis on dual-career couples, job stress and career transition, and organizational team building. Steve received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1978. His areas of treatment specialty include job stress; career transition and career assessment; cognitive behavioral treatment of depression; EMDR; and organizational team building using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Read More »

Michael Ross, , PhD, CCAS

Biography: Michael S. Ross has an MA in Industrial Psychology and a PhD in Clinical Psychology. He has experience in Employee Assistance Programs and in organizational training and development. Dr. Ross developed and directed the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program and the Eating Disorders Program at the Navy Drug Rehabilitation Center in San Diego. Dr. Ross also developed a nationally recognized inpatient cocaine treatment program for a California hospital. Dr. Ross specializes in adolescent treatment, addiction treatment, and couples counseling/therapy in his HRC outpatient practice. (Dr. Ross is a Certified Clinical Addictions Specialist and is a board member and treasurer for the NC Substance Abuse Professional Certification Board). His areas of treatment specialty include alcohol and substance abuse; brief psychotherapy; individual, group, marital, and family therapy; psychological testing; adolescent therapy; cognitive therapy; organizational development consultation and training.

Martha Simpson, PhD, CCAS

Biography: Dr. Simpson is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years experience in individual psychotherapy with adults and college age young adults. She received her doctorate from UNC-CH in 1975 and practiced in San Diego, California for many years until returning to North Carolina in the early 90’s. Most recently she has been in practice in Greensboro, with a private practice and a position in Behavioral Medicine with Guilford Pain Management, P.A. She has taught at the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego State University, University of California at San Diego Medical School and Elon University. She has been clinical director of community mental health centers in San Diego and El Centro, California. She is a clinical addiction specialist and holds the certificate of proficiency in alcohol and other psychoactive drugs as a psychologist. She is chairman of the Colleague Assistance Task Force for the North Carolina Psychological Association. She also works in the area of pain management and chronic illness. Her areas of treatment specialty include substance abuse; pain management and chronic illness; mood disorders and anxiety; and domestic violence. Read More »

Donna L. Skillman, PsyD

Biography: Dr. Skillman is a North Carolina Licensed Psychologist and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist. She is a member of the North Carolina Psychological Association and the National Association of School Psychologists. Dr. Skillman graduated from The Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1986. She has worked in schools and outpatient clinical settings since that time. Dr. Skillman specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents, and their families. She also conducts AD/HD and LD evaluations for children, adolescents, college students and adults. Her areas of treatment specialty include child, adolescent and family therapy; psychological evaluations, including evaluations for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities; parent training and education; facilitating adjustment to separation and divorce; anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders in children and adolescents. Read More »

Mareah C. Steketee, PhD

Biography: Dr. Steketee is a licensed clinical psychologist with specialty training in neuropsychology and health psychology. She completed a year of postdoctoral neuropsychological research at UNC-Chapel Hill and a year of postdoctoral clinical neuropsychology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center. Currently, she is an Adjunct Associate Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Department of Psychology. She maintains an appointment at Duke University as an Adjunct Associate in Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Mareah’s practice emphasizes neuropsychological evaluations with adults, including both screening and thorough evaluations (memory, attention deficit disorder, guardianship, independent living skills). She offers mindfulness-based, solution-focused cognitive therapy for individuals, couples, and groups (adjustment to neurological or medical condition, DBT Skills groups, strengths assessments, memory enhancement strategies). She also has special interest in cross-cultural and women’s issues in the realm of assessment and treatment. Read More »

Barbara C. Yelverton, PhD

Biography: Dr. Yelverton has been in private practice since 1982, first in California and then, starting in 1995, in North Carolina. She earned her PhD from Brigham Young University and her Master’s degrees from California Polytechnic State University. Her Bachelor’s degree is from San Jose State University. In addition to private practice she has taught psychology and counseling at community college and university level and served as a college counselor. She had her own Psychological Wellness radio program in California for several years. Dr. Yelverton’s areas of treatment specialty include adults and older adolescents, relationship problems, anxiety and depression. She works with individuals and also offers the following groups: Depression Therapy: A Change Group; Making Love Work; and Increasing Self-Confidence and Fulfilling Your Dreams. Read More »

 
     
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