About Dr. Newman

Dr. Denise L. Newman obtained her Ph.D. in clinical and developmental psychology from the University of Minnesota and has a specialization in the field of developmental psychopathology. She completed her clinical residency at the University of Chicago in the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in developmental psychopathology, and at Stanford University Medical School at the Center on Adolescence, as well as the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. She has Advanced Certifications on diverse topics such as  psychoanalysis, functional neuropsychology, American Indian identity, and longitudinal multivariate research methodology.

She has been a university professor at the University of Virginia and at Tulane University, teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She served on the faculty at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and as a supervising psychologist and clinical faculty member at Louisiana State University Health Sciences. She was a psychoanalytic fellow and member of the teaching faculty at the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. She is a recipient of faculty scholar awards from the William T. Grant Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as well as research funding from the National Institutes of Health. 

She has published and presented scholarly research on topics in developmental psychopathology, psychiatric epidemiology, ethnic minority children's development, and on Native American mental health and personality development. She has lectured nationally on topics related to the development of depression, anxiety, substance use, attention problems, dissociative or disruptive behavior, personality and identity development, stress and trauma in preschool, adolescence, and during the transition to young adulthood. 

She is in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Newman's treatment orientation takes a modern psychoanalytic approach: She has special interest in developmental and depth-oriented processes focussing on the childhood, unconscious, and cultural meanings of the mind in the context of a safe therapeutic relationship.