Psychologist
She/Her/Hers
Dr. Long is a licensed clinical rehabilitation psychologist who brings to Evolvinn a wealth of experience and skill in helping individuals meet life-altering circumstances and other formidable life challenges. With a rehabilitation psychologist’s orientation, she is dedicated to being there for her patients even on, especially on, their worst days—enabling them to see and feel how they can move forward with confidence and rediscover joy.
As someone who herself lives with a chronic autonomic nervous system disorder, Dr. Long knows firsthand how discouraging and isolating it can be to have an “invisible disability.” She herself has learned, and has helped others learn, how to cope and thrive despite the frustrations that come with achieving an accurate diagnosis, struggling with unwelcome and fluctuating symptoms, and helping others understand and accommodate what you’re dealing with.
She also has deep experience in helping individuals with spinal cord injuries/disorders, and sometimes accompanying brain injuries, meet the steep challenges of re-forming their identities and reclaiming their lives. In addition, she has enabled patients to find quality of life when faced with cancer, heart and pulmonary disease, and diverse neurological and other chronic health conditions. Further, she has worked, individually and in group settings, with patients seeking to overcome mental health concerns including anxiety, depression, postpartum/peripartum depression, chronic pain, eating disorders, sleep disturbances, POTS/EDS/MCAS, Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), OCD, PTSD, and medical-related trauma. She also has experience in facilitating animal-assisted therapy for individuals of all ages with developmental disabilities such as ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
With patience and compassion, Dr. Long helps her patients find greater self-empathy. She enjoys learning how each person uniquely processes what is going on with their physical and mental well-being. She then develops and implements a therapeutic program that helps each prioritize their health so as to lead the life they desire. Dr. Long draws creatively on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), CBT for Chronic Pain (CBT-CP), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Habit Reversal Training (HRT), Written Exposure Therapy (WET), and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). In addition, she brings to her patients the added dimension of her study of human anatomy, physiology, and neurology.
Dr. Long has worked with patients and their families in-person in a wide range of clinical settings as well as remotely. She is experienced at working as part of interdisciplinary medical and therapy teams.
She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, with minors in Biology and Neuroscience, from Bradley University. She completed her Master of Arts in Biomedical Sciences, Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, and Doctor of Psychology degrees in the practitioner–scholar oriented programs of Midwestern University.
Dr. Long is licensed in Illinois and Georgia and is authorized to provide services across all PSYPACT states.