Dr. Denise Tope Stillman earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University in 1990, then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Following a year as staff psychologist at University of Nebraska Medical Center, she returned to Dartmouth Medical School as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and a clinician in the Behavioral Medicine Section. She moved to Knoxville in 1994 and has been in full-time clinical practice since then. Dr. Stillman specializes in time-limited cognitive-behavioral treatment of medically-oriented problems, chronic pain and headache and women’s health issues. She also has particular expertise in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression and anxiety disorders.