{"id":133,"date":"2014-07-17T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/?page_id=133"},"modified":"2022-06-22T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T19:46:08","slug":"barbara-kersey-phd","status":"publish","type":"medical_team","link":"https:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/medical-team\/barbara-kersey-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Kersey, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/\/i0LewmTU544' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Barbara Kersey, PhD <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-135\" src=\"https:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Dr-1.-Barbara-Kersey-1-1-683x1024-2.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Kersey, PhD\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong>, joined The Group for Women in 1986. With her addition to the team, The Group for Women was \u2013 and still is \u2013 the only OB\/GYN practice in Tidewater to have a full time marriage and family therapist on staff. (For more information about this venture, <span style=\"color: #008000;\">see\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"The Marriage of Mental Health and Medicine: Practice Success\" href=\"https:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/the-marriage-of-mental-health-and-medicine-practice-success\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Marriage of Mental Health and Medicine: Practice Success<\/span><\/a>.) Dr. Kersey received her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and completed an externship in family therapy at the Eastern Virginia Family Therapy Institute.\u00a0She is a Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her practice at The Group For Women, Dr. Kersey currently serves as a consultant to the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine. Her areas of expertise include postpartum depression, adjustment to parenting, couples counseling, grief counseling\u00a0and infertility. (To read more about Dr. Kersey\u2019s work with infertile couples, see\u00a0<a title=\"The Emotional Roller Coaster Ride of Infertility\" href=\"https:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/the-emotional-roller-coaster-ride-of-infertility\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Emotional Roller Coaster Ride of Infertility<\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kersey and her husband, David Steinhauer, have two teen-aged children.<\/p>\n<h2>Practice Areas:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/mental-health\/\">Mental Health<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2595,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medical_team\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medical_team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/medical_team"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegroupforwomen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}