Rachell N AndersonDr. Anderson ran a private clinical practice in Springfield, Illinois, from 1974 until she retired in July 2008. In the practice, she provided individual, marriage, and family therapy to help people heal emotional pain and grow personally. She is creentialed by the National Register of Health Service Psychologists (NRHSP).For twenty years, Dr. Anderson taught clinical courses to graduate students and served as chair of the Department of Human Services (DHMS) at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She spearheaded the redevelopment and accreditation of the HMS program and served as its chair from 1999 until 2006. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, master's degrees from Northern Illinois University and the University of Illinois at Springfield, and a bachelor's degree from Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has lectured widely and served as vice president and chair of the publications committee for the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology. She founded the Central Illinois Society of Adlerian Psychology; served as copresident of the Central Illinois Psychological Society; and is a member of the American Association of Black Psychologists, the National Organization of Human Services, and the American Psychological Association.Dr. Anderson has received many awards from learning, teaching, healing, and serving in her field. An award from the Committee for Children's for twenty-five years of dedicated services on the family stress consultation team, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Who's Who America's Professionals, and Who's Who of Executives and Professional 2009 Woman of the Year are among the many. She was selected by her peers to receive the University Pearson Faculty Award for sustained excellence in teaching in 2006. This honor carried a substantial monetary award, of which Dr. Anderson used a portion to donate twenty copies of her book Responsible Children in Today's World to fifty day care centers in her home state of Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.Dr. Anderson has authored seven books. Recent publication Before Our Eyes is a chronicle of the healing advantages of watching psychotherapy in an open forum, and The Legacy Continues: Writing Healing Stories is stories for healing emotional pain are available. An eighth book, Run Turkeys, Run, was published in 2010.Since retirement, Dr. Anderson has volunteered four clinical hours a week at the Church Health Center in Memphis and facilitated the Writer's Workshop at the Tunica Museum in Tunica, Mississippi, and served on the board of the Mississippi Writers Guild.Dr. Anderson has a very large extended family in Tunica, Mississippi, and is the mother of three grown children, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Read More Read Less