LETS WORK TOGETHER.

 

DR. BAILEY TACKETT, PHD, LP

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Bailey Tackett, PhD, LP is a licensed psychologist in Lubbock, TX. She earned a doctoral degree in counseling psychology with a concentration in sport psychology from the University of North Texas. She completed her APA-Accredited internship at The University of Maryland-Baltimore County and her fellowship at Eating Recovery Center in Dallas, TX.

Dr. Tackett is specialized in the identification and treatment of eating disorders and related concerns for people of all ages. At the University of North Texas, she provided services to athletes who had eating disorder concerns, facilitated a NCAA-funded women athlete’s body image group program, and her thesis and dissertation and other research projects focused on identifying eating disorders in elite female athletes from across the country. She has also worked as an eating disorder therapist at the Center for Pediatric Eating Disorders at Children’s Medical Center in Plano, TX, NextSTEPS Worldwide, PLLC, and Eating Recovery Center in Dallas, TX.

Dr. Tackett has extensive experience working with collegiate and elite level athletes, as she was specialty trained in sport and performance psychology by the premier sport psychology training program in the United States - the Center for Sport Psychology and Athlete Mental Health at the University of North Texas (UNT). While at UNT, she worked as a sport psychology consultant and provided sport psychology, mental health, and behavioral health services to Division-1 athletes, elite teams, and performers. Dr. Tackett served as an adjunct faculty member and supervisor for 2 years to UNT graduate sport psychology consultants at the Center for Sport Psychology. Dr. Tackett has also been contracted by athletics departments in Texas and across the United States for eating disorder prevention education, eating disorder treatment consultation, and direct provision of eating disorder services.

Dr. Tackett is a Licensed Psychologist with the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists (TX License - 38260; Expires 11/30/2023) and with the State of Arizona Board of Psychologists Examiners (AZ License - PSY-005717). For information on how to verify a license, please go to TEXAS - www.tsbep.texas.gov and ARIZONA - https://psychboard.az.gov/directory-licensee-search. For information on how to file a complaint, please go to the following page: https://www.tsbep.texas.gov/how-to-file-a-complaint-enforcement or https://psychboard.az.gov/investigations.

 
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In Loving Memory:

DOGTOR RILEY

Riley was always a very strong supporter of mental health care and was a self-identified dog philosopher. He was a paw-rtner of Tackett & Bradstreet Psychology Services.

Dogtor Riley was adopted from an animal shelter at the tender age of 3 weeks. He was separated from his pup family and was in poor health. Puppyhood was dedicated to his psychological and physical healing. During his youth, he struggled with significant separation anxiety and delayed trauma responses. To be honest, he felt awful most of the time. With the support of training, treatment, exposure, love, and time, Dogtor Riley considered his life to be more wonderful and full than he could have ever imagined. He was so proud of his commitment and investment in himself. He dedicated his life to giving back to others and reminded them that it is never too late to make change, build resiliency, and heal the heart.

Although he was unable to pass his licensing exam to become a therapy dog, he earned a PhDog in dog philosophy with concentrations in napping and tennis balls from George Pupperton’s University.

Riley loved his extremely large collection of tennis balls, swimming in the pool or the lake, being lazy, belly rubs, hiking and adventures, eating brussel sprouts and sweet potatoes, long rides in the car, and of course his very favorite drink from Starbucks — The Puppichino. What can we say, Riley was a dog of many tastes, and he just knew what he liked.

Since Riley could not be a therapy dog, he liked to pretend that he was a dog-tor. You can watch with his “Dogtor Riley says” series on @tbpsychology instagram stories to see his recommendations for building a meaningful and fulfilling life. He asked us if we could leave you with his favorite quote — how could we possibly tell him no!

“The meaning of life, is to give life meaning.” - Viktor E. Frankl