about Dr. Mcmorrow

Dr. Denise McMorrow is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and practicing artist who offers her clients an integrative,  heart-centered approach to psychotherapy.  She draws upon primarily depth-oriented, gestalt, and multicultural traditions within psychology, supporting a conscious engagement not only with one's mind but also with one's heart as a way of perceiving, understanding and relating to self, others, and the greater ecology of our more-than-human-world.

Denise sees a wide range of clients, including individual adults and children, couples, families, and groups with over 10 years experience providing talk psychotherapy and over 16 years facilitating community and individual art therapy.  She has practiced meditation and yoga for over 20 years, and has been a registered yoga teacher since 2003.  She has studied a range of cross-cultural understandings of psychological wellness and healing for several years, with an emphasis on dreamwork, imaginal and creative process, and connection to the natural world.

Denise received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University with an emphasis in Existential-Phenomenology.  She completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship in the Department of Psychiatry at Allegheny General Hospital, where she specialized in working with trauma across the lifespan. She completed her Post-Doctoral Fellowship with Soldier's Heart, a NY-based organization that is dedicated to bringing veterans home through the integration of archetypal psychology and indigenous wisdom related to how community can tend the psycho-spiritual needs of returning warriors.  She has assisted as a therapist with Soldier's Heart Retreats, as well as with Canyon Heroes, accompanying and working with veterans with severe PTSD on healing river journeys into the Grand Canyon.  She received her Masters in Fine Art from the Pratt Institute in 2002, and continues to create artistic work that explores the intersections between place, healing, and the psychic life of communities.  She is a member of the American Psychological Association, Divisions 32 (Humanistic) and 39 (Psychoanalysis) as well as the Pennsylvania Psychological Association.