Meet B&B

Onna Brewer, PhD

onna@brewerbristow.com

Onna completed her doctorate in Human Services Psychology with specialties in Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County under the mentorship of Carlo DiClemente, PhD, ABPP where she began learning Motivational Interviewing in 2006 and training others in 2009. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the VA Maryland Health Care System specializing in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder followed by a staff psychologist position with the Veterans Health Administration providing evidence-based client-centered care across an Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, Trauma Recovery Program, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Team. She was a Motivational Interviewing consultant and regional trainer for the VA’s National Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Initiative, and she joined the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 2017.

Her training, research, and clinical passions include health behavior change and MI training innovations for improving proficiency in practice and access to client-centered care for across the helping professions and historically under-served communities. She is a licensed psychologist in the State of Florida and assists with research initiatives with the Center for Translational Behavioral Science at Florida State University.

Margo Bristow is a Psychotherapist with a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and is Licensed in Illinois as an LPC. Margo is a past Adjunct Instructor at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois and is a Member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). She is Certified as a Substance Abuse, Problem and Compulsive Gambling, and Anger Management Specialist. She is also an Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapist.

Margo has experience working in the fields of mental health, education, criminal justice, and child welfare. This experience has been garnered from time spent doing outreach to gang members in the streets of Chicago, working at inner-city and suburban schools, and working at many levels of private and public mental healthcare. She has dedicated over forty years of her practice to youth, adults, and families with Chemical and Process Addictions of Gaming, Gambling, Internet, and Social Media. Margo has provided a variety of trainings throughout the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Estonia. Her private practice, Margo Bristow PLLC, can be found at www.margobristow.com.