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Shielagh Shusta-Hochberg, PhD (she/her/hers)

Clinical Psychologist
Private Practice
Naples, Florida, United States

Dr Shielagh Shusta-Hochberg is an ISSTD fellow and member since 1997 who earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Adelphi University in 1994. Among other professional positions, she was assistant professor at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. In 2021 she obtained certification as an End-of-Life-Doula through the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. She maintains a private practice in Naples, Florida, providing general psychotherapy and working with individuals, couples and families dealing with challenges across the lifespan, as well as dementia and bereavement. She practices hypnotherapy and EMDR. In 2020 she lost her husband to Alzheimer’s disease.

Publications:
2017 Volume 18, Reviewers for the Treatment Guidelines, Journal of Trauma and Dissociation,18:5, 735-735. Shielagh Shusta-Hochberg is among a group of reviewers for this publication.

2013 Howell, E. F., and Shusta-Hochberg, S. R., eds. Revised Curriculum for the Standard Course of the Psychotherapy Training Program for Treatment of the Dissociative Disorders, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), McLean, VA.

2006 Shusta-Hochberg, S. R.. “The complex relationship between obsessive compulsive disorder and the dissociative disorders.” International Society for the Study of Dissociation News, 24(4), 6-8.

2004 Shusta-Hochberg, S. R.. “Therapeutic hazards of treating child alters as real children in dissociative identity disorder.” Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 5(1), 13-27. Originally presented to ISSD Conference in Baltimore, MD as “Fixed illusions: Confronting the reification of child alters in dissociative identity disorder.”

2003 Shusta-Hochberg, S. R.. “Impact of the World Trade Center disaster on a Manhattan psychotherapy practice,” Journal of Trauma Practice, 2(1), 1-16.

1999 Shusta, S.R. “Successful treatment of refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder,” American Journal of Psychotherapy, 53(3), 377-391.

1997 Shusta, S. R.. (1997). “Plumbing the depths through dreams: gaining access in short-term treatment,” Voices: Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, 33(2), 73-80.

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