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Dustin L. Tibbitts, LMFT

    Dustin has been with New Haven from its inception, beginning as a Staff Supervisor working directly with the girls (something he loves). Dustin's experience includes fifteen years working with intensive in-patient residential treatment settings, rape and suicide crisis lines, and raising five foster teenagers in his home over a two year period. He directed the development of New Haven's Values Program and its employee training program. His pre-New Haven management experience includes two years in sales, one year in marketing and business development, and one year in a start-up hearing aid manufacturing business with two partners. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor degree in Psychology and from Southern Christian University with a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy. His clinical expertise is in the areas of healing trauma, attachment disorders, sexual abuse, personality disorders, eating disorders, and depression. Dustin and his wife have a daughter and two sons. He loves to snowmobile, hike, camp, garden, play jazz, and wrestle with his kids.
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Toward a New Definition of Beauty

Written By: Date: March 16th, 2010. Topic: Member Blogs.

About a year ago I sat in a large circle in a group therapy session. The leader started with this: “Tell everyone in the circle something beautiful about you.” I was startled and a little uncomfortable. I had never thought of any part of me as being “beautiful”. That group got me thinking about the [...]

Prevalence and Reasons for Self-Harm Among Teenage Girls – Research Mixed with Teens’ Perspectives

Written By: Date: April 9th, 2009. Topic: Adolescents.

I spent an hour today with a young woman who had not harmed herself for eight weeks.  She had not harmed herself, that is, until today. As we talked, she unwound tape from her forearms – tape she had wrapped around paperclips pressed tightly against her skin, hidden under the long sleeves of her sweatshirt.  [...]

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