Hello, I'm Dr. Browning

Dr. Browning is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director of our practice. She has a varied clinical practice that includes neuropsychological testing and therapeutic treatment of adults. Her areas of assessment expertise include a wide variety of evaluations including ADHD testing, testing after a TBI (traumatic brain injury), intelligence testing, psycho-educational evaluations, personality evaluations, dementia screenings, and adaptive behavior assessments. 

 

She has been a Consultative Examiner for the Bureau of Disability Adjudication and currently performs assessments for the Board of Vocational Rehabilitation for diagnostic clarification and to make recommendations for reasonable accommodations in a work or educational setting. In her clinical practice she works with adults with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, anger management, adjustment difficulties, posttraumatic symptoms, adjustment to aging, traumatic brain injury, and bipolar/difficulty with mood regulation. She has extensive experience with neurominoroties, including autistics.  She also provides education to families to help foster a supportive home environment and encourage self-acceptance rather than masking, Dr. Browning's clinical approach is grounded in her strong support of the neurodiversity paradigm.  She prefers not to use pathologizing terms like "disorder" outside the necessary task of insurance billing. She empowers individuals to embrace their gifts, personalities, and the way they relate to the world, while creating a work/home life that is a good fit.  

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Having earned her Bachelor’s Degree from University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a member of Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society, she worked in research and contributed to a breast cancer and a quality-of-care study in the UCLA Department of General Internal Medicine under the supervision of Katherine Kahn, MD. She went on to obtain her Masters and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California Graduate Institute, which was acquired by the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. While attending CGI, Dr. Browning received a travel scholarship to attend the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) conference in 2002 and participated in a research practicum under the supervision of Dr. Pamela Connolly, a renowned psychologist in the field of sexuality research. It was while working with Dr. Connolly that Dr. Browning conducted field research of the transgender population in Samoa, performed psychological assessments of individuals in the BDSM community, participated in panel discussions about gender identity, presented research findings at both the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) and the AASECT annual meetings, and worked on a documentary that was shown at the 16th World Congress of Sexology Conference in Havana, Cuba, in 2003.

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Throughout her academic and professional career, Dr. Browning has had the opportunity to assess and treat patients in a variety of settings including hospitals, community mental health centers, the Veteran's Administration (VA), private practice, a maximum-security men’s prison, a Partial Hospitalization Program, and assisted living facilities. She relocated to New York to complete her pre-doctoral training at Coler Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, where she conducted psychological, neuropsychological, and developmental assessments of patients on AIDS units; a Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit; a Rehabilitation Unit where many individuals had traumatic brain injuries and strokes; a Geriatric Unit that provided long term care to elderly residents; and a Children’s Unit that provided long term care for adolescents and young adults with genetic syndromes and developmental disabilities. Dr. Browning also received specialized training in Developmental Psychology and Psychological Assessment at The American Institute for Psychoanalysis and postdoctoral training at the Karen Horney Clinic in New York, NY, under the supervision of Jacqueline Simon, Psy.D., Director of the Trauma Program.

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Dr. Browning is currently licensed in Nevada and California. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Nevada Psychological Association, and APA Division 40 – Clinical Neuropsychology.