Liz Tingley

Liz Tingley, PhD, grew up in a small midwestern town, and has a B.A. in English from Oberlin College. She migrated East after college and lived there with a couple of minor detours, for forty years. She has an MS in Infant and Parent Development from Bank Street College of Education. She worked as a teacher and director of the Harvard Law School Child Care Center early in her career. She then obtained a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Boston University and held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Dallas, Bennington College and Bank Street College of Education. She received her second doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the City University of New York CUNY). She did her postdoctoral training at the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). She was in private practice as a psychologist in New York City for many years and taught and supervised psychologists at IPTAR, CUNY/CCNY and Pace University. She relocated to Illinois in 2017, where she practices as a clinical psychologist, directs the Child Diagnostic Clinic, acts as the chief psychologist, and supervises and teaches in the psychiatry residency program at Carle Health in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. She returned so her dog Charley could have a big yard, and to fight Trump on the ground.