Meet Dr. Heidi Dunham
Heidi Dunham, PsyD, MEd, is a licensed clinical psychologist in New Hampshire and Vermont. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and is Credentialed with Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT).
As the co-founder of CPAS, her educational background, coupled with her clinical experiences, provides the foundation and the basis for her work today. Dr. Dunham began her professional career as a teacher, earning a Master of Education from Keene State College. Her work with her students provides a strong foundation for understanding the many factors that affect information processing. She learned about interventions and accommodations by differentiating instruction and using creativity and flexibility to meet individual needs. She gained an understanding related to supporting students with emotional challenges, executive functioning weaknesses, visual motor deficits, and processing disorders, which informs her assessment practice and recommendations.
Dr. Dunham earned her Master of Science and Doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Antioch University New England, where she received extensive training in assessment during her work at the university's on-site training clinic. She excelled in assessment, and at the completion of the practicum, the director of the training clinic offered her the position of Teaching Assistant to second and third-year doctoral graduate students.
Dr. Dunham is a licensed clinical psychologist and has been working in the field for over ten years. She has completed assessments for schools, private clinics, and nonprofit clinics and has experience testing in community mental health settings. Her experience with assessment is wide, including evaluating individuals for neurocognitive disorders, such as attention deficit and autism, memory impairment, learning disabilities, graphomotor disabilities, processing disorders, nonverbal disorders, and general ability testing to appreciate strengths and weaknesses. She explores personality structure and the impact that trauma may have on functioning to support therapeutic work. She collaborates with providers to help support the integration of the results into action and treatment. Her expertise in working with her patients is guided by a deep awareness and respect for their challenges as well as an appreciation and admiration for their strengths and their desire to understand themselves so they can set a course for their lives and navigate with confidence using the map that assessment yields.
She provides supervision to colleagues and post-doctoral psychologists. She consults with practitioners working with her patients and coordinates care.
