[Straight Vermonter]

Wrong. Her degree is in physiology. She is a certified marriage, family, and child counselor.

[muir_redwoods]

Still, it's over-reaching to use the term "Doctor" outside of a medical/clinical or university setting. I know she earned it, and she's not the only one, but it's still kind of crass.

[RLK]

Wrong. Her degree is in physiology. She is a certified marriage, family, and child counselor.

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Correct. She also went back for graduate study in the counseling area.

[Robert_Paulson2]

The california counseling certificate, does not convey a psych degree, or the abilty to proscibe psychotropic meds. Lots of school counselors, pastors and substance abuse counsellors, even career counselors have taken the test, paid the fee, and gotten the licence.

She is however, neither a psychiatrist or psychologist. My understanding was she got her license to counsel, AFTER it became an issue that she was NOT technically a "real" doctor offering "counsel" on the radio.

And her ph.d. is in sports physiology, IIRC. She is more precisely, a gym teacher, with a counseling certificate. That is not a psychiatrist, or psychologist... although she does offer a lot of "frazier style" pop psychology on the radio.

I am not surprised with her switch, after the death of her estranged mother, anything is possible.

[Irene Adler]

"Her[doctoral] degree is in physiology. She is a certified marriage, family, and child counselor."

You are correct.