Dr. Lingenfelter is an assistant professor of psychiatry and licensed clinical psychologist. Her clinical scope of practice encompasses consultation, assessment, individual psychotherapy, and group skills training. 

As a psychologist in the Adult Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic, Dr. Lingenfelter enjoys working with both under- and over-controlled patients to build the lives they want to live and share with others. She specializes in treating both acute and chronic anxiety and a mood disorders, PTSD and other trauma-related issues including interpersonal or institutional betrayal, and disorders characterized by emotional dysregulation or rigidity – particularly Borderline and Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorders. 

She is trained in standard and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy and generally takes a (warm, creative, and irreverent) behaviorist approach in her therapeutic practice. In her faculty role, she enjoys teaching and supervising psychology and psychiatry trainees in these areas. 

It is particularly meaningful to Dr. Lingenfelter when she can bring evidence-based care to those whose well-being is often neglected by healthcare systems. This includes helping fellow sexual and gender minority folks access affirming care and heal from chronic invalidation or supporting other healthcare providers as they attempt to meet their professional responsibilities and retain their humanity. 

Dr. Lingenfelter is a Chicagoland native but has lived and learned all over the United States (and ever-so-briefly, the south of France), including Illinois, North Carolina, Oregon, Connecticut, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania. Of all of those places, she has only ever returned to one – Oregon. She lives happily in Portland with her wife and their menagerie of pets.