Dr. Kelly K. Duggan, Psy.D

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Get to know Psychologist Dr. Kelly Duggan, who serves the Mequon, Wisconsin area at her private practice and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. Dr. Duggan received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology and a Postdoctoral Master’s degree in Clinical Psychopharmacology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Dr. Duggan has been involved with Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) and Crisis Intervention Partnership (CIP) training to law enforcement and other legal and public service entities since 2008. Dr. Duggan has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings providing evaluation, individual, and group services. She has extensive experience working within the criminal justice system, providing sex-offender treatment to adults, individual and group therapies to adolescents, men, and women. She also provides forensic psychological evaluations in custody cases and other criminal matters. Additionally, Dr. Duggan provides civil forensic evaluation and consultation services to many counties throughout Southeastern Wisconsin. To stay up-to-date on developments in her field, Dr. Duggan teaches graduate psychology courses at Alverno College, which allows her to train the next generation of medical professionals. In her current practice, she incorporates a variety of therapeutic approaches in the treatment of individuals to tailor a customized, client-centered therapeutic plan to aid in understanding and treating underlying mental health concerns. Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of epiphenomena they manifest. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases. Dr. Duggan’s commitment for developing strong therapeutic alliances are at the core of her practice. She uses a trauma-focused approach, viewing early attachment and developmental psychic injury as a precursor to many mental health disorders. When she is not seeing patients, Dr. Duggan enjoys spending time with friends and family members.

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