Professor / Applied Clinical Research Ph.D. Program Director
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Brewer-Mixon earned her PhD and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at UTSW. She worked in private practice for eight years after her postdoctoral training, then returned to UTSW in 2005 as a full-time faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry. In 2014, she became a faculty member in the School of Health Professions, first in the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling and currently in the Department of Applied Clinical Research.
Dr. Brewer-Mixon is currently serving as the Program Director for the ACR PhD program. When she is not directing the PhD program, she runs a small neuropsychology practice, supervises a psychotherapy elective for psychiatry residents, teaches in the ACR program and other SHP training programs, does clinical research, and participates in both UTSW and professional organizational committees. As a clinician, Dr. Brewer-Mixon has significant experience in evaluating and treating patients with a variety of psychiatric and neurological disorders, but she currently specializes in treating Functional Neurological Disorders. She is a founding member of the UTSW Functional Neurological Disorders Multidisciplinary Group and also currently leads the UTSW FND Research Working Group. As a researcher, she is currently actively involved in studies about Parkinson’s disease and Functional Neurological Disorders.
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