Dr. Aflred Hughes



   Dr. Alfred Hughes is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Georgia. He is originally from Charleston, South Carolina, received his undergraduate degree with Honors & Research Honors in Psychology from Georgia State University, and his doctorate degree in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. He completed a full time APA accredited internship in forensic psychology at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC. Dr. Hughes completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Positive Outcomes Psychological Services in 2003.

   Dr. Hughes provides play based therapy for children and psychotherapy for adolescents and adults. His areas of specialty include the treatment of emotional and behavioral disorders, anger management, ADHD, behavior modification, oppositional defiant disorder, trauma and childhood abuse, depression, parent-child relationships, and adjustment disorders. He also conducts psychological assessments for children, adolescents, and adults including fitness for parenting and anger/violence evaluations.

   Dr. Hughes has over sixteen years of experience working with various aspects of family violence. He has participated in legislation efforts regarding domestic violence, provided clinical services to adult and children victims, worked in conjunction with law enforcement providing crisis intervention during domestic violence dispatches, and conducts trainings and seminars concerning family violence. He presently is a board member of the Foundation for Overcoming Abuse and conducts program evaluation and compliance inspections on all of the Nevada state certified Domestic Violence Intervention Programs.

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