Dr. Rachel Ruholt Nienaber is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She enjoys working with clients of all backgrounds with a wide range of presenting concerns, including trauma, conduct disorder, attachment disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, and personality issues. She is especially passionate about working with adolescents and young adults who are struggling with past trauma that affect their current behavior, functioning, and relationships with others. Dr. Ruholt Nienaber has extensive training in Interpersonal Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and other evidence-based treatments that best fit the needs of each individual. Overall, she uses an integrative approach to treating clients.
Dr. Ruholt Nienaber strongly believes that each person has unique experiences and a unique story. She finds the best way to assess or work with that person depending on those unique needs. She is interested in helping that person overcome difficulties, no matter where they stem from.
Dr. Ruholt Nienaber strongly believes that each person has unique experiences and a unique story. She finds the best way to assess or work with that person depending on those unique needs. She is interested in helping that person overcome difficulties, no matter where they stem from.
She employs empathy and active listening as two of her main tools in understanding a person and where they have been in life.
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Dr. Ruholt Nienaber earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), where she also obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. Most recently, she completed her doctoral internship at Youth Opportunity Center in Muncie, Indiana, where she worked at a residential facility with youth involved in the juvenile court system, most of whom had been through extensive trauma in their past. She has previously worked with children, adolescents, and college students at EKU’s Psychology Clinic, and elementary, middle, and high school students (ages 5-18) in the Madison County School District. She also worked at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center performing psychological and forensic evaluations on an inpatient psychiatric unit, and outpatient forensic basis. Finally, she worked with clients at a private practice in Cincinnati, doing court-ordered evaluations and psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and adults.
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In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Nienaber has given presentations in Kentucky and Indiana on research projects that explore child development of identity, trauma-based therapy programs in the school, and how early attachments, or lack thereof, can affect later behavior, daily functioning, and relationships. She completed her dissertation at Eastern Kentucky University, forming a trauma-based therapy program for the school system that could target and reach more students. This was developed after Dr. Ruholt Nienaber noticed the lack of services available in some areas and school systems. It was developed to be used in the areas and schools she worked in as a practicum student.
Dr. Ruholt Nienaber is fully licensed in the state of Kentucky. She has also been granted authorization to provide telehealth services in the state of Florida and the designation of APIT (Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology) in states that have enacted PSYPACT legislation. To see which states have active PSYPACT legislation, follow the link below: https://psypact.site-ym.com/page/psypactmap.
Dr. Ruholt Nienaber is fully licensed in the state of Kentucky. She has also been granted authorization to provide telehealth services in the state of Florida and the designation of APIT (Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology) in states that have enacted PSYPACT legislation. To see which states have active PSYPACT legislation, follow the link below: https://psypact.site-ym.com/page/psypactmap.