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Dr. Richard Walton has been providing services to Children and adolescents in the Tulsa area since 1981. In 1994 he became a partner in Family Resource Group of Eastern Oklahoma, Inc., a group of psychotherapists providing services to children and adults. Recognizing the need for an increase in the number and scope of psychological services available to children, adolescents and their families, he founded the Tulsa Center for Child Psychology, PLLC in 2007.
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Our Purpose
Tulsa Center for Child Psychology provides a full range of psychological services to Tulsa and the surrounding communities. These services include psychological evaluations, diagnosis, and treatments that includes individual therapy, play therapy, family therapy and group therapy.
Our Staff
Our current staff include Clinical Child Psychologists Dr. Richard Walton and Dr. Klanci McCabe. In addition we also have two Post-Doctoral Interns: Dr. Meg Cardoni and Dr. Sarah Jones. Chris Hogue, LMFT Candidate has also joined our staff. Sandy Howard serves as our Community Liaison and Internship Coordinator, Robin Mickle is our Office Manager, and Pam Bennett is our Receptionist.
In an effort to provide a full range of services in one location, we are now affiliated with Therapy 4 Kids, which offers occupational, physical and speech-language therapy services. You can learn more about them at http://www.therapy4kidsinc.com.
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Richard Walton, PhD
Dr. Walton has spent most of his life living in Tulsa. A graduate of Memorial High School and the University of Tulsa, he completed his graduate education at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia and at Saint Louis University. He returned to Tulsa to complete his internship at Children's Medical Center and received his PhD in Psychology in 1986.
After spending five years with Shadow Mountain Institute, where he was the Hospital Program Coordinator and Director of the Children's Residential Treatment Program, Dr. Walton
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entered into private practice in 1987. After spending 7 years in a solo practice and 13 years in a group practice, he then founded Tulsa Center for Child Psychology.
Dr. Walton has been active in the Oklahoma Psychological Association where he has served as a Board Member for many years and has been the President of the Division of Health Service Providers and the founding President of the Division for Prescribing Psychologists.
Dr. Walton is invested in the future of Psychology and has served as an Adjunct Faculty Member at Oklahoma State University, the University of Tulsa, and presently at Southern Nazarene University. He has taught courses in Childhood Psychopharmacology and Clinical Psychology, and presently is teaching courses in Lifespan Development and Counseling Children and Adolescents, Child Development and Child Psychopathology and Assessment. Dr. Walton has also served as a practicum supervisor for graduate students from the University of Tulsa since 1993.
Dr. Walton has been married for 35 years. He and his wife, Sherilyn, have raised three boys. Sherilyn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is the Family Support Coordinator for TARC. She has been actively serving the Developmental Disabilities Community in Tulsa and the surrounding area for many years. Dr. Walton is active in the Tulsa community and has served on a variety of community Boards. He is active in his church and has enjoyed participating in short-term mission trips to Zelenograd, Russia. His interests include landscaping, woodworking, white water canoeing, and participating with his son's youth group.
Klanci McCabe, PhD
Dr. McCabe is a licensed clinical psychologist. She obtained her doctorate degree from the University of Tulsa. Her research interests include the neuroaffective and psychophysiological components involved with pain perception, the impact of postpartum depression on infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and parent overprotectiveness and children with cancer. Dr. McCabe completed a predoctoral internship at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where she conducted inpatient consultation-liaison services, outpatient services, and neuropsychological evaluations. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, which involved inpatient consultation-liaison services, outpatient services, and participation with multiple multi-disciplinary medical clinics.
Dr. McCabe specializes in pediatric psychology, working with children and adolescents with both psychological symptoms and medical conditions. She provides therapeutic services that address treatment noncompliance, pain management, adjustment to diagnosis, injury prevention, adjustment to remission, procedural anxiety, sleep behaviors, feeding difficulties, toileting problems, school accommodations, pill swallowing, and medical trauma. Additional therapy includes treatment of mood symptoms, anxiety, social skills, and behavior management. She also provides assessment that assists with functional ability, cognitive effects, and coping with chronic illness, as well as screening for comorbid mood and anxiety symptoms.
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| Internships
TCCP has been approved by the American Psychological Association to become a member of the Northeastern Oklahoma Psychology Internship Program (NOPIP). Our first predoctoral intern will begin in September, 2011. TCCP has provided training to postdoctoral interns since its inception. Our goal is to provide quality training in advanced assessment and treatment skills for children and adolescents.
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Students
Students are an important component of the Tulsa Center for Child Psychology. Students from the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Tulsa and Oklahoma State, and the Graduate Program in Counseling at Southern Nazarene Univerisity, Oklahoma State and Northeastern State serve in a number of roles. These include serving as co-therapist with Dr. Walton; conducting psychological and psycho-educational evaluations, literature reaserch, and performing classroom observations. When conducted by students, these services can occasionally be made available at little or no charge. Students begin their practicums following their first year of graduate school and continue throughout their graduate career. Doctoral students typically participate for a full year at TCCP, while Master Level students are here for 6 months.
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