Dr. Allison M. Garrott
Dr. Allison Garrott received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Memphis. She has been a staff member at both Pediatric Adolescent Center and Christian Psychological Center, Memphis. Her practice encompasses a wide range of child/adolescent and women’s issues. She works with clients who deal with depression, anxiety, trauma and relationship issues. She has been trained by Christopher Fairburn, MD of Oxford, England in the treatment of Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating.
Dr. Garrott has developed an additional area of interest, working with older women who are making the transition into their later years. Growing older is a difficult time in the life span, when people struggle with the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of aging. Dr. Garrott enjoys walking alongside women in this season of life.
Today, Dr. Garrott conducts psycho-educational evaluations for people of all ages. Her doctoral dissertation was on the relationship between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and self-esteem.
Dr. Garrott works with the whole person, believing that one’s behavior, the way in which people react to their psychological environment, is to a great extent within their control. In other words, people have the ability to change the outcome of their lives.
Dr. Garrott is a wife, a mother and a grandmother to 10 grandchildren.
Education: Allison earned her Bachelors degree from Sweetbriar College her and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Memphis (1992).