Our Expert Treatment Team

About us

The members of our multidisciplinary, expert treatment team have decades of experience working with complex patient populations and have worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The Petoskey team has the expertise and real-world experience to identify what is keeping a patient stuck and works with each patient to help them get back on track. ​

70+

Years of practice

5 of 6

Clinicians With Advanced Speciality Training

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Clinicians

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​Jennifer Markey, PhD, MEd, CGP

Founder and Director

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Valorie George, LCSW, CGP

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Brett Needham, PhD, LCSW

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Phuong Nguyen, LCSW, LCDC, RN

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Michelle Argentina, LPC

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Jenny Layer, LMSW

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Resources for Understanding our Core Psychotherapeutic Interventions

Understanding Psychodynamic Therapy

Jonathan Shedler, PhD is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and Consulting Supervisor at California Pacific Medical Center. He is creator of the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP) for personality diagnosis and clinical case formulation, and co-author of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2).

​What is Mentalization?

Peter Fonagy, Anna Freud Chief Executive, is Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at the UCL; Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London; Consultant to the Child and Family Programme at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine; and holds visiting professorships at Yale and Harvard Medical Schools. 

Are DBT Skills for Everybody?

Dr. Marsha Linehan, the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), explains who can use DBT Skills.

What is Mentalizing & Why Do It

Jon G. Allen, PhD,, Professor of Psychiatry in the Menninger Department Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine talks about mentalizing and the role it plays in attachment relationships.

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