Nancy Parker has worked as a mental health professional for over 25 years.  She specializes in working with families as well as with adults and teens struggling with suicidal thoughts, self-harm, trauma, chronic disability, anxiety and major affective disorders.  She trained and then was on staff at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, KS for over 11 years, where she also served on the Marriage & Family Therapy Faculty.  She completed the intensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and has been working with DBT and CBT since 2004.   She is a member of National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).