HARBOR PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATES
 
Stella Dial, M.A., Ed.D. Dr. Dial
Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Dial is a Muskegon native, former high school teacher and life-long resident. She received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology in 1995 from Western Michigan University. She has been in private practice in Kalamazoo and Muskegon since 1988. During that time, Dr. Dial has worked with people of all ages providing assessment and treatment for a variety of psychological challenges which include ADHD, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, and adjustment disorders.

Dr. Dial works with individuals, groups, families, and couples. She believes strongly in the ability of individuals to change and find relief from their emotional distress through a variety of therapeutic modalities and techniques. These include teaching communications and relationship skills, use of cognitive-behavioral techniques, insight development, as well as cognitive and psychological assessment.

In her career in Psychology, Dr. Dial has taught at the graduate level at Western Michigan University, worked with hospitalized children at Pheasant Ridge Psychiatric Hospital, and provided treatment for prisoners at the Kennedy Center, a federal correctional facility in Morgantown West Virgina. She also served on the Western Michigan Psychological Association Executive Board for nine years. In her last year she was board president. Additionally, she has been in private practice since 1989. Dr. Dial is married to a Corrections Psychologist, has three children and five grandchildren.


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