Mary Jo McHaney, Board Secretary

Personal Solutions in Counseling

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Mary Jo McHaney is licensed both as a Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Mental Health Counselor.  She is also a Certified Addictions Professional. She is a certified instructor for Youth Mental Health First Aid USA, as well as a parent educator for the Beyond Consequences Institute.  In addition, she is a Florida Board approved Clinical Supervisor for Registered Interns. She is also certified through the State of Florida as an Adoptions Competent Counselor. She graduated from Florida State University with an undergraduate degree in Psychology and she obtained her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. With over thirty years of clinical experience, Mary Jo has worked in a variety of settings, from agencies, schools, medical centers, and ultimately private practice. Mary Jo has conducted numerous seminars and training programs. Specifically, she has provided parent-training classes focusing on children and teens for over thirty years. She provides local and state wide trainings for families and professionals on trauma’s impact on the developing brain. Mary Jo specializes in working with trauma, Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), grief, adoption, couples, families, children adolescence, anxiety, and depression. She has received extensive training in the use of Eye Movement Desensitization, and Reprocessing (EMDR), and utilizes it, when clinically appropriate, to facilitate rapid healing. She also embraces the Stress Model developed by the Post Institute when working with Attachment issues. The Stress Model is a “love based” intervention that strongly incorporates the family in facilitating the healing of the attached challenged child.