Shirley Brown, D.M.D., Ph.D

Shirley Brown is passionate about her work as a licensed clinical psychologist. She began her professional life as a dentist, and enjoyed a successful career in practice and teaching. Throughout her dental career, she worked extensively with special challenges, particularly people with medical and emotional issues. In doing so, she discovered a strong desire to return to graduate school and obtain a doctorate in clinical psychology.  In graduate school at Rutgers University, Dr. Brown was able to integrate her medical background with the study of health psychology, and to incorporate her decades-long experience with meditation and mind-body health into her growing practice. She also became trained in medical hypnotherapy and advanced stress management, including studies in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn.  

For five years Dr. Brown developed a collaborative practice of psychology within a large group medical practice.  There she witnessed the tremendous benefits that patients gain when their doctors work closely together. She brings this experience, as well as a unique precision and attention to detail from her medical background, to her work at the Rittenhouse Healing Collaborative, where she offers psychotherapy services for the most prevalent problems.