Gina J Hiatt, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, tenure coach and
dissertation coach. She helps professors and graduate students to
complete research and writing projects and publish, while maintaining
high teaching standards and other commitments. In addition to
dissertation coaching, she runs workshops and teleclasses on time
management, writing, career planning and grad student/advisor
relationships.
Academic
Background
Gina J. Hiatt, Ph.D. received her
undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, Summa
Cum Laude, in 1973. She was one of
only 12 people inducted into Phi Beta Kappa her junior year at Penn.
Her first year
at Penn was as a Russian and French major, having studied French, Spanish and
Russian all through high school. She took a psychology course to fulfill
the science requirement, and the rest is history. Gina continues her love
of languages: after four years of study she is now also fluent in
Italian.
Gina received her Ph.D. in 1978 from McGill
University, in clinical psychology. Her research was in the area of learning and memory, working with the
noted neuropsychologist, Brenda Milner.
From Researcher to
Clinician...
While testing patients for her
dissertation research, Gina realized that she liked working with people
more than doing research on them. After graduating in 1978, she did a post doc at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric
Institute. She also had the opportunity to teach two psych courses at
UCLA. Since then, she has been in
private practice for 25 years.
Clinician/Coach
In addition to being a psychotherapist, Gina
is a coach. She enjoys working with
academics at every stage of their career, from grad students wondering about
their dissertation topic to faculty members who want to maintain a high level of
research and writing. In particular, Gina has found that faculty concerned
about promotion and tenure are helped immensely by the structure of
coaching. It has been incredibly rewarding for her to watch her clients'
successes in the academic arena.
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