About Dr. Hall

Psychologist in Kentucky

Who I am & what I do:

I’m a licensed psychologist in Louisville, Kentucky specializing in psychological assessment for adults. My expertise is in personality assessment, including contextualizing diagnoses within broader personality patterns and functioning to provide individualized recommendations for moving forward. This approach is especially useful for people who don't fit neatly into diagnostic boxes and have been misdiagnosed or misunderstood as a result. I also maintain a small individual psychotherapy caseload, where my primary focus is on targeting underlying patterns and maintenance factors that cut across diagnoses, using a collaborative approach that flexibly adapts evidence-based techniques to fit you rather than the other way around. I am also accepting select referrals for forensic psychological evaluations.

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My approach:

I like getting down into the details of psychological measurement, and I'm passionate about using psychological science and tools to help people better understand their patterns, clarify what that means for the difficulties they're experiencing, and identify strategies or support that will actually help. Diagnosis in my practice is a tool for self-understanding and moving forward with less friction instead of pathologizing, with the recognition that psychological frameworks are just one way of understanding yourself.

I'm attentive to how other dimensions of identity and experience--things like race and cultural background, sexuality, gender, and religious beliefs or lack thereof--can shape how people relate to the assessment and psychotherapy process and what the results mean in context.

Finally, I'm mindful that many of the people I work with have experienced significant trauma and that trauma impacts how people present on testing, how they relate to evaluators and therapists, and what they need from the assessment process. I take care to be attentive to individual trauma needs when working in both assessment and therapy contexts.

My training & background:

I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University, where I worked as a member of the MMPI Research Group led by Dr. Yossef Ben-Porath on the development and validation of the MMPI-3, one of the most widely-used and extensively researched instruments for assessing personality and mental health problems. I’ve first-authored peer-reviewed publications and presented research on applied psychometric topics to national audiences, as well as written a book chapter on MMPI-2-RF Validity Scale interpretation in clinical neuropsychology settings. I've taught introductory statistics, led research method seminars, and mentored undergraduate students through research projects, so I'm comfortable working with data and translating difficult concepts into accessible language.

I completed my pre-doctoral internship at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, where I worked with Veterans navigating complex psychiatric presentations, often involving trauma, chronic pain, substance use, and overlapping medical conditions, across outpatient, inpatient, and residential settings. That training taught me how to work carefully with diagnostic complexity and how to be helpful to people whose clinical pictures don’t simplify neatly. I've additionally worked in a college counseling setting providing psychotherapy and ADHD testing for college students and completed training in forensic psychological assessment across multiple supervised settings, including experience with criminal and civil evaluations.

These experiences have led me to a practice that's built around personality-based differential diagnosis for adults whose presentations resist categorical classifications, using empirically-grounded dimensional assessment to develop case formulations and recommendations that go beyond diagnosis to something more useful.