Sara Hill, Ph.D. I completed a Bachelors in Music in 1975, and a Masters in Communications in 1978, both at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. After completing the Masters, I taught hearing impaired infants and children and counseled their parents for seven years. It was during this time I became interested in in-depth counseling, and decided to become a psychologist. In 1989, after five years in graduate school in psychology, and a year on internship in Washington, D.C., I finished a Ph.D. from the University of Texas. Since that time, I have been in private practice. For eight years, I also was a psychologist at the Maricopa County jails, working with detainees who are mentally ill, and with administrative duties related to Correctional Health Services at the jails. In that capacity, I was able to see a lot of patients who had a wide variety of mental illnesses and whose needs contrasted greatly with the patients I saw in private practice. For the last two years, I have been solely in private practice. I work with both children and adults, and also see couples. Parenting issues are of interest to me, as are obsessive-compulsive disorders and other anxiety and depression related disorders. Another special interest I have is in adolescent issues, and parents' difficulties with adolescents. Many of my patients are going through life transitions, and need a place to sort out what is happening in their lives. I also work in the areas of women's issues, divorce recovery, stress management, crisis counseling and single parenting. Psychology and counseling are fascinating work, and I find the relationships I have with patients are very satisfying for me. My counseling style varies from patient to patient, but I mainly am oriented toward cognitively-behavioral techniques, with an eye at changing people's feelings through looking at what they believe about their lives. I have found this to be a very effective way of helping people deal with themselves and with the rest of the world in a happier, more productive way.