Remuda Ranch

Shona Shewmaker, PhD, graduated from the University of Arkansas with a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. The program model was scientist-practitioner and course instruction adhered to cognitive and behavioral principles. Research areas included cognitive distortions among women with childhood trauma and developing a multidimensional model of intimacy that would predict psychological symptomatology. At Arkansas, Dr. Shewmaker was trained in anxiety treatment by Dr. Jeff Lohr. Dr. Shewmaker completed her predoctoral internship at West Virginia University School of Medicine in 2006. This internship consisted of a 12-month rotation in eating disorders assessment and treatment using interpersonal and cognitive-behavioral treatment modalities under Dr. Scott Mizes. She also completed a 12-month rotation with the Anxiety Disorders Clinic under Drs. Amy Combs-Lane and Kevin Larkin, well-published anxiety disorders researchers.

At Remuda Programs, Dr. Shewmaker has been working with eating and anxiety disorders for nearly three years, assessing and treating both eating and anxiety disorders using American Psychological Association Division 12 recommendations for empirically validated treatments. These modalities include cognitive-behavioral therapy and exposure with response prevention, the latter being used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, social phobia, and panic disorder with agoraphobia. Dr. Shewmaker also maintains an involvement with anxiety research, has conducted staff training on anxiety reduction skills, and leads an anxiety reduction group. Dr. Shewmaker has presented three papers on trauma at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Dr. Shewmaker maintains professional memberships in the American Psychological Association, 2002-2009; Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, 2004-2009; Academy for Eating Disorders, 2006-2009; and the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, 2008-2009.