Educational Series: March 2023

Natalie Fadel, PsyD is an Associate Professor for Psychiatry and Neuro-Behavioral Sciences at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine Carolinas campus, and Director of Counseling Services. Dr. Fadel is currently licensed to practice clinical psychology in Illinois, North Carolina, and South Carolina. She teaches on topics such as addiction, mindfulness, ethics, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, humanism in medicine, personality disorders, and psychotherapy as well as provides counseling services for medical students. She has been delivering psychiatry-related graduate course material for almost 10 years, and after 5 years of service was promoted to Associate Professor. She is active in research in both behavioral medicine and student wellness.

Her clinical training has included individual and group therapy in an underserved, urban Chicago area with women dealing with acute substance use disorders and other co-occurring mental health issues. Dr. Fadel has also been trained academically and in a supervised clinical setting to conduct psychological testing, and has done so both in a community mental health care and private practice setting. She has worked in three different therapeutic day schools in both urban and rural areas of Chicago with children and adolescents dealing with behavioral difficulties and mental illness. As a primary therapist in a therapeutic day school, her job also included family therapy, teacher consultation, group therapy, and case management which allowed her to work with those individuals from underserved communities through a holistic and social work framework.

Her dissertation was inspired by her work as therapist in an addiction recovery setting for marginalized populations and discussed the integration of holistic and 12-step treatment approaches to addiction. Following completion of her post-doctoral fellowship and obtaining her license, she began working as a primary therapist at a private residential treatment center for women with eating disorders, addictions, mood disorders, trauma, and PTSD. She worked as part of multi-disciplinary team that used an integrated, holistic treatment approach including dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, family work, 12-step principles, and medication management to address both symptoms and underlying issues. These clinical experiences inform her current work with medical students and underserved communities in the Spartanburg area. She completed both her masters and doctorate in clinical psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and an undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Michigan.