Christopher W. Griffith, Psy.D.
Post Doctoral Fellow in Psychology

Dr. Griffith earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, and graduated with cum laude distinction, from Dickinson College in central Pennsylvania. Following several years of providing in-home services for at-risk youth in rural North Carolina, he earned his Doctor of Psychology degree from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His training experiences there included providing therapy and psychological testing for local school systems and at the George Washington University Center Clinic where he worked with adults, adolescents, and children. Dr. Griffith completed his pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, NH. While there, he provided adult outpatient psychological services, including psychological testing, emergency services, and psychotherapy to children and adults. Dr. Griffith is expected to be licensed as a clinical psychologist in NH by January 2010.

Dr. Griffith has a wide-range of clinical interests, and works with children, adolescents, and adults, including working with depression, anxiety, trauma, adolescent issues, conduct disorder, parenting issues, school problems, adults managing divorce, life transitions, personality disorders, and relationship problems.

Dr. Griffith views psychotherapy as a collaboration aimed at fostering greater self understanding while working toward personal change and symptom reduction. Dr. Griffith's goal is to help his patients reach greater fulfillment in their lives by fostering understanding of the interpersonal patterns and unresolved personal, life and/or relationship issues that contribute to the challenges they face.