Our psychologists are doctoral-level licensed clinicians who embody our core values of compassion, excellence, and openness.
Our psychologists go through initial training before seeing clients and are engaged in an intensive feedback process to help them deliver our high-quality and compassionate client experience.
Our psychologists receive a digital workspace that streamlines their experience, provides quality assurance, and helps them deliver high-quality evaluations that are more likely to be accepted by the VA
Dr. Samantha Klockow completed her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from an APA-accredited program at the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology after her APA-accredited internship in psychological testing at Nystrom & Associates. Throughout her master’s program and occupational experience, she developed a strong background and passion for differential diagnostic psychological testing in a variety of outpatient clinic settings. This focused on helping people find the most appropriate diagnoses and, more importantly, how their personal symptoms impacted the various aspects of their lives. Evidenced-based psychological measures were used in the evaluations to assess attention levels, learning styles, social skills, personality functioning, psychosis, mood regulation, and behavioral concerns.
For 14 years, psychological evaluations remained an area of professional focus. She later applied her diagnostic knowledge to aid in implementing therapeutic interventions as well as completing Social Security mental health evaluations. She has multiple generations of family members who have served and she is honored to have joined VMHA to help the veteran community.
In her free time, she has many hobbies such as cross-stitching, reading, volunteering, singing at an assisted living center several times a year, and traveling; however, she finds the most enjoyment in spending time with family and friends when she is not working.
Dr. Annie Powers has been practicing as a clinical psychologist since 2005. She was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri and is fortunate to practice in and serve the community where she grew up and where most of her family continues to reside. She attended Missouri State University for her undergraduate degree and started her master’s degree in clinical psychology with Missouri State University before transferring to Forest Institute of Professional Psychology to finish her master’s degree followed by her doctorate in clinical psychology with a focus in neuropsychology.
Throughout her career, she has provided individual therapy to patients with a variety of mental health issues including depression, anxiety, bipolar, acute stress disorder, PTSD, grief, relationship issues, treatment for insomnia, Suboxone supportive therapy as well as conducting chronic pain evaluations, DFS evaluations, assessments for spinal cord stimulators, pre-surgical bariatric evaluations, and neuropsychological assessments. She taught undergraduate psychology courses for a period of time at University of Phoenix from 2009 to 2017.
She is a Master Gardener and loves learning about anything related to plants and enjoys cultivating, harvesting, and beautifying the environment around her. In addition to gardening, she enjoys spending time with her family and two high-energy, rambunctious Labrador dogs.
We’re always excited to connect with great psychologists. If our approach sounds like a good fit, you are passionate about supporting veterans, and you like to work independently in a supportive environment, please email us your CV at info@vmhaforvets.com. If you have experience conducting assessments, please send a redacted report as well.