Sample J. Abner, Ph.D.

• Staff Psychologist at Region XX Mental Health Center
• Consultant for Mississippi Office of Disability Determination
• Private Practice
  
  

• Personality and Intellectual Assessment
• Objective and Projective personality assessment with an emphasis on helping the client to better understand his/her own behavior, thoughts, emotions, and interpersonal style.
• Standardized intellectual assessment with a wide variety of tests, depending on the needs of the client.
  
• Individual Therapy
• Supportive therapy and crisis intervention, with a special interest in sexual abuse, rape counseling, and coping with the emotional consequences of abuse.
• Behavioral parent training with an emphasis on helping parents to understand what motivates a child's behavior and on how to effectively use both natural consequences and structured interventions to resolve behavior problems.
• Intervention for anxiety and panic disorders, with an emphasis on understanding the thought processes which contribute to anxiety, as well as specific behavioral techinques to control anxiety/panic attacks.
• Substance abuse counseling, with an emphasis on understanding the psychological needs which are partially met through substance abuse, while learning alternative methods of meeting those needs.
  
• Group Therapy- Time-limited groups with an emphasis on:
• Smoking Cessation
• Assertion Training
• Weight Loss
  
• Marital Therapy- Emphasis is placed on examining/clarifying the quality of the current relationship with respect to communication styles, roles within the relationship, expectations for yourself and for your partner, changes in relationships over time, and personal values.
  
  

• Marital Therapy
• Forensic Consultation and Assessment
  
  

• Individual Therapy:  $60/ hour
• GroupTherapy:  $25/hour
• Marital/Couple:  $100/ hour
• Personality/Intellectual Assessment:  $120/hour
• Neuropsychological Assessment:  $120/hour
• Forensic Consultation:  $120/hour  ($800/day)
  
  

• Take Briarwood exit off I-55 North in Jackson, MS
• Go East for 3 blocks on Briarwood Drive
• Turn left on South West Street
• Office is the second building on the right