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Tracy Neal-Walden

Advisor at SAMHSA

Dr. Neal-Walden is a licensed clinical psychologist and a retired Air Force colonel with more than 25 years of experience in mental health leadership, evaluation and treatment, program management and policy. She currently serves as a senior leader and clinic director with Easterseals and a national network of mental health clinics, providing quality care and building strategic partnerships with community, federal, and state resources/agencies to enhance the well-being of veterans and military families. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Drexel University-Hahnemann Medical Campus in Philadelphia, PA, and completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in clinical health psychology at the Wilford Hall Medical and Surgical Center in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Neal-Walden’s specialization is cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety, suicide assessment and intervention, and treatment of behavioral health clients with co-existing medical disorders.