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Gina J Hiatt, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, tenure coach and dissertation coach. She helps professors and graduate students to complete research and writing projects and publish, while maintaining high teaching standards and other commitments. In addition to dissertation coaching, she runs workshops and teleclasses on time management, writing, career planning and grad student/advisor relationships.
Academic
Background
Gina J. Hiatt, Ph.D. received her
undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, Summa
Cum Laude, in 1973. She was one of
only 12 people inducted into Phi Beta Kappa her junior year at Penn.
Her first year
at Penn was as a Russian and French major, having studied French, Spanish and
Russian all through high school. She took a psychology course to fulfill
the science requirement, and the rest is history. Gina continues her love
of languages: after four years of study she is now also fluent in
Italian.
Gina received her Ph.D. in 1978 from McGill
University, in clinical psychology. Her research was in the area of learning and memory, working with the
noted neuropsychologist, Brenda Milner.
From Researcher to
Clinician...
While testing patients for her
dissertation research, Gina realized that she liked working with people
more than doing research on them. After graduating in 1978, she did a post doc at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric
Institute. She also had the opportunity to teach two psych courses at
UCLA. Since then, she has been in
private practice for 25 years.
Clinician/Coach
In addition to being a psychotherapist, Gina
is a coach. She enjoys working with
academics at every stage of their career, from grad students wondering about
their dissertation topic to faculty members who want to maintain a high level of
research and writing. In particular, Gina has found that faculty concerned
about promotion and tenure are helped immensely by the structure of
coaching. It has been incredibly rewarding for her to watch her clients'
successes in the academic arena.
Individual and Group Coaching
Gina encourages
everyone to join a dissertation coaching group or a writing
time/management group for postdocs and professors. All coaching is done on the
telephone. Of course, Gina does individual coaching, but she has found
that there are so many benefits to the group process. A founding
member of the National Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists (no longer
active,) she believes that the support, advice, encouragement, role
modeling or even mistakes of other group members create a magic mix that
encourages progress.
Workshops and
Teleclasses
Gina runs
workshops for graduate students and faculty on career planning, time management,
student/advisor relationships, teaching and writing blocks. You can
contact Gina about your specific needs to see if she will be available to give a
workshop at your university. Teleclasses are also given over the phone,
allowing multi-university participation, confidentiality, and the ultimate
convenience of learning from home or office. Sign up for her
newsletter to stay informed of the workshop and teleclass schedule.
Would you like to talk to Gina?
If she has openings, Gina will be happy to discuss coaching with you in a phone conversation -- just
send her an email and you can set up a time to chat!
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