Deborah R Wagner

Deborah Wagner, Ph.D. is a Developmental Psychologist with a license for clinical practice. She spent eight years as Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. In that position she conducted longitudinal research on women and their relationships with their children, children’s emotional, intellectual and psychological development, and conducted intervention studies on high risk, urban families. During that time, Dr. Wagner was a contributor to over a dozen professional publications and presentations at scientific conferences dedicated to psychological development of children and families.

For twenty years, Dr. Wagner has enjoyed a thriving clinical practice that focused on patients from age two to over eighty, both males and females, individuals, couples and families. Her understanding of how people feel, think, react and behave has expanded as her practice has broadened. The broad range of Dr. Wagner’s experience has given her the aptitude and wisdom to author a book that is insightful, understandable and engaging to the reader.

As a researcher and practicing psychologist, Dr. Wagner has always been committed to achieving a greater understanding of how and why people feel and behave the way they do and they helping them to find the ways to feel and do better. She has dedicated her career to understanding the psychological ramifications of lifespan development and its impact on human emotions and reactions.

Her professional concentration on the understanding of lifespan development and its impact over time has given her a unique perspective on how the different stages of development interact with and build upon one another. She has broadened her psychological understanding of people to include an understanding of how the physiological can often influence and impact the emotional. Her journey into this arena began when she personally experienced severe medical challenges that had significant impacts on her sense of psychological well-being. These experiences allow her to address people with similar challenges not only from a professional point of view, but from a personal one.