Clinical Psychologist, Owner
van Eys Mental Health
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Patti van Eys, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private business concentrating on the complexities of the intersection of traumatic experience and mental health challenges. She offers consultation, supervision, legal expertise, training, and evaluation services drawing on her extensive experience serving clients with complex needs. Before the onset of van Eys Mental Health, as Chief Clinical Officer of Omni Visions, Inc., she oversaw the clinical integrity of therapeutic practice with foster children in homes and residential treatment centers. Formerly, she was the Clinical Manager of Behavioral Health Programs at BlueCare Tennessee (2012-2015) and before that, an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University from 1995 to 2012. She served as the clinical director of the Vanderbilt University Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody, a center that specializes in comprehensive psychological assessments and consultations for high risk, complex children and provides intensive training to behavioral health providers. She has trained extensively at the local, regional, and national level on trauma informed care and mental health issues. For the past 15 years, she has testified as an expert witness in capital (death row) cases about the damaging effects of early and chronic child maltreatment on the developing brain. Before coming to Nashville, Dr. van Eys was a provider at the National Children’s Advocacy Center in Huntsville, Alabama where she gained formative experience working with children and adults with complex maltreatment trauma. She is published in the area of child maltreatment, an ISSTD board member, and a co-chair for the task force charged with rewriting the ISSTD child and adolescent best practice guidelines for dissociation.
Dr. van Eys received her PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1989 from Bowling Green State University (Ohio) after completing her Clinical Internship/Fellowship at Harvard Medical School (Boston Children’s Hospital/Judge Baker Children’s Center).
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