Daphne Fatter PhD

Daphne Fatter, Ph.D. earned a Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University in 2006. She was awarded her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University in 2011 and completed her clinical internship at the University of Tennessee Counseling Center. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Psychology at the Trauma Center, an affiliate of the Boston University School of Medicine, under the supervision of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she completed a nine-month training program in Traumatic Stress Studies and also managed a pilot study on using neurofeedback to help treat posttraumatic stress disorder.

For over a decade she has studied in both Buddhist and Taoist meditation traditions and has published on mindfulness. She has served as an ad-hoc expertise reviewer in the area of mindfulness from 2011-2013 for the Journal of Counseling Psychology, European Journal of Counseling Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Mindfulness Journal. She has taught mindfulness meditation at the Southern Methodist University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She is the former Military Sexual Trauma Coordinator at the Fort Worth Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinic. She is EMDR certified and is a Certified Internal Family Systems therapist. She has also completed advanced training in Cognitive Processing Therapy. She currently in private practice in Dallas, Texas.