TRICIA GILLIAN,SSP, LPA

Psychologist

NC License #4328

Tricia Gillian serves as a psychologist on our North Carolina assessment team. Her personal heart for assisting families began with her own journey of being through the foster care system and blessed with being adopted. Due to these personal experiences, Tricia has a true desire to help other individuals in times when guidance and support are needed. Tricia has worked with families and children in need for over 20 years and particularly as a psychologist for over 15 years. She worked in the homes of families by providing CAP and respite services to children with various disabilities while attending UNC- Greensboro.

After earning her BA in psychology, Tricia served as a special education teacher with students who have severe and profound disabilities prior to graduate school at Winthrop University. She earned her Masters and Specialist Degree from the graduate program in the field of School Psychology. She has also earned her Licensed Psychological Associate license. Using these degrees and her LPA license, she has served in the public school systems, charter schools, and in the private practice. She also had the privilege of serving as a director of an academic support system at a private school. When Tricia is not working with the ILLUMII Team, she enjoys spending time with her young daughter, husband, and two fur babies.

Specialties:

Tricia has extensive assessment experience with preschool children through teens who may have academic, behavioral, and social emotional difficulties. In addition to the typical training in cognitive, psychological, and neuropsychological evaluations for learning disabilities and ADHD, Tricia has specialized training in play based assessment for young and nonverbal children as well as extensive experience in strengths based Autism evaluation.