Dr. O’Fallon has been in private practice for over twenty years.  Her academic degree specialized in marriage and family therapy.  She has since taught at Stanford, The University of California at San Diego, and The University of San Diego.  She also conducted a two-year internship at the County of San Diego in Child Protective Services with the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program where she taught incest families psychoeducational tools for recovery, led therapy groups and did individual therapy with perpetrators, non-offending spouses, victims, and their siblings.  She has also chaired dissertation committees and supervised psychological interns since then.

Dr. O'Fallon did her post-doctoral work at Rancho Pacifica Health Center, and became certified by Pia Mellody, RN (Facing Codependence, Facing Love Addiction, etc.) in Post-Induction Therapy.  Other advanced training includes sexual therapy with David Schnarch, Ph.D., EMDR, coaching, poetry therapy, transpersonal therapy, brain gymnastics, and hypnotherapy. 

Today Dr. O’Fallon is the psychologist at Mountains Community Hospital’s Rural Clinic in Lake Arrowhead, CA, and she also has a private practice, which includes consultation for Above It All, a recovery home for anxiety and substance abuse populations.  She treats adult individuals and teens, couples, and families with symptoms such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, relationship issues, parenting issues, personality disorders, grief recovery, sexual therapy, bipolar disorder, and others. 

Dr. O’Fallon has been published numerous times in newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and literary journals in both psychology and fiction/poetry.  She moved her practice from Del Mar to Lake Arrowhead, CA in 2002.  Year of the Goat, published in the anthology, Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains, articulates her reasoning best.

Year of the Goat

after Li Po

You ask why I live in the mountains,

where a bug blight seizes pine trees

and fire shrouds the range.

It is said nature covers to humble.

The snow falls, silent.

The waterfall sings.