About Dr. Hall
Psychologist in Kentucky
Who I am
I’m a licensed psychologist in Louisville, Kentucky specializing in comprehensive psychological assessment for adults. My clinical specialty is personality-integrated assessment: thorough psychological evaluations that assess the full picture and go beyond diagnostic labels to help people build frameworks for understanding themselves and know what to do next. I also provide forensic psychological evaluations for legal matters involving mental health concerns.
Beyond my assessment work, I provide individual psychotherapy for adults dealing with anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, ADHD, and personality-related concerns, using evidence-based approaches including CBT, ACT, ERP, and DBT-informed strategies. I tend to work best with people who want to understand the “why” behind their patterns, not just manage symptoms. ​
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. During that time, I contributed to the development of the MMPI-3, one of the most widely-used and extensively researched personality and psychopathology instruments in clinical psychology. I’ve first-authored peer-reviewed publications on MMPI validity and forensic applications, and I wrote a book chapter on MMPI-2-RF Validity Scale interpretation for a clinical neuropsychology reference text.
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.
My Approach
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 collaborate to find strategies or support that will actually help. Diagnosis in my practice is a tool for self-understanding instead of pathologizing, with the recognition that psychological frameworks are only one way to understand the human experience.
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I practice from a neurodiversity-affirming and strengths-based perspective, where we collaborate to find strategies that work with your brain rather than trying to fight against it.
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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.
I'm also 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.