Phillip Jeffrey Tietbohl, PhD

Phillip Jeffrey Tietbohl is a licensed psychologist since 1995 working with children, teenagers, and adults in Pennsylvania. He believes in the power of poetry to produce and spark change and knows it can be useful for developing new outlooks and self-respecting behaviors. He is also an international performer and author with poems published in Cricket and Ladybug magazines, The Reading Eagle newspaper and several anthologies including, Hanukkah Lights, Holiday Poetry, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Pen Street City of Poems, edited by Anthony Orozco, and Love[Less} The Third Collection of Poems, edited by Lisa De La Cruz. He has appeared on local and regional TV programs reading his work and discussing poetry as a therapeutic aide and how group poetry projects build cooperation and fuel inspiration. He has presented trainings on the use of poetry in therapy for The National Association of Poetry Therapy and other clinical organizations. His interactive events have led to the creation of scores of group poems. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master’s in Educational-School Psychology and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia. He has been writing, reading, and sharing poetry for much of his life and enjoys baking bread, taking short hikes through forests, and laughing with family and friends.