Title:  Professor; Director, Counseling Psychology MS Program

Department:  Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology

School/Center:  School of Health Professions

Office Location:  206 Lake Hall

Phone:  617.373.5937

Fax:  617.373.8892

Email:  m.ballou@neu.edu

Education:  PhD, Kent State University

MS, BA, University of New Hampshire

Certification:  Licensed Psychologist

Fellow APA & MPA

Diplomate ABPP

Specializations:  Feminist psychology

Health psychology

Research:  Dr. Ballou’s scholarship focuses on health psychology, crisis intervention and developing a feminist orientation to psychology. Through her publications and professional work, she has made contributions to feminist therapy process, a feminist and critical analysis of the mental health system in the United States, and feminist perspectives on personality theory and psychopathology. Dr. Ballou continues to develop the ecological model and is currently exploring its implications for interventions and for epistemology. She is an author of several texts, as well as multiple chapters and articles. Dr. Ballou provides consultation and therapy in a medical clinic and has a private practice in feminist counseling. She holds a diplomate in Counseling Psychology, is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and has held leadership positions in several mental health organizations. Committed to interdisciplinary perspectives, Dr Ballou also teaches in Women’s Studies both at Northeastern and in the Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies Program in the Boston/Cambridge area.

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