Article archive / December 1, 2012
Originally published: . Volume 4, No. 4. Source pages: 16.
Dr. Sherry Desselle has taken over as President of the Baton Rouge Area Society of Psychologists for outgoing president, Dr. John Pickering.
Dr. Desselle is a Baton Rouge psychologist and owner of the Baton Rouge Center for Anxiety Treatment. She will serve as president until July 2013.
Dr. Joseph Comaty, also of Baton Rouge, serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the regional group.
The group will meet in December for its annual Christmas party. Interested persons can contact Dr. Desselle for information.
The Times talked with Dr. Desselle about the plans for the society. “Two topics for next year will include bullying in school and equine therapy,” Deselle told the Times.
In November the society hosted a presentation by Dr. Richard Flicker, Baton Rouge Industrial- Organizational psychologist.
This past October, the group heard Dr. Claire Advokat speak on “Introduction to Epigenetics: You, AND Your Offspring Are What You Eat!” The group met at DeAngelo’s Italian Restaurant on Bluebonnet Blvd in Baton Rouge to hear the talk.
Dr. Desselle’s clinic in Baton Rouge is located near Lady of the Lake Hospital. “I do evidenced- based treatments, which is a whole lot of CBT [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy],” she told the Times.
Desselle is also the liaison to the American Psychological Association’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns Office, serving for the Louisiana Psychological Association.
She explained that the mission of this APA group is “… to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge on gender identity and sexual orientation to benefit society and improve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people's lives.”
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