Dr. Nemeth is currently in practice at The Neuropsychology Center of Louisiana, LLC, 4611 Bluebonnet Blvd., Ste. B, Baton Rouge, LA, where she has a broad-spectrum practice in the areas of Clinical, Medical and Neuropsychology. Her practice interests, specifically in the area of neuropsychology, include working with individuals who have brain-behavior dysfunction either due to head injury, medical trauma, and/or aging, as well as attention deficit disordered, learning disabled, and other special needs individuals. Dr. Nemeth has considerable experience in individual, marital, family, and group therapy. Dr. Nemeth has written two book chapters, one on the history of psychotherapy in the United States and another on anger management for children. After presenting their anger management workshop at American Psychological Association’s (APA) 109^th convention, Dr. Nemeth and her colleagues, Kelly P. Ray, Ph.D., and Maydel M. Schexnayder, M.S., co-authored a book, Helping Your Angry Child, which was released by New Harbinger Publications in March 2003. 

Dr. Nemeth has been a pioneer in the area of Clinical Neuropsychology for over 30 years, having been the first in Louisiana to establish a private practice Neuropsychology Laboratory in 1977. She subsequently established the first Neuropsychology Laboratory at the Louisiana State University Student Mental Health Center in Baton Rouge. After serving as Vice-Chair of the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists (LSBEP), Dr. Nemeth was instrumental in the movement to have Clinical Neuropsychology recognized as a specialty area in the State of Louisiana. Thereafter, she negotiated a contract between APA’s Division 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology) and the Louisiana State University Libraries to have all Division 40 materials archived in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection. During this process, Dr. Nemeth served a 6 year term (1997-2003) as Archivist on APA’s Division 40 Executive Committee. At its 106^th Annual Convention, the APA Executive Council elected Dr. Nemeth to Fellowship status, making her the first Clinical Neuropsychologist from the State of Louisiana to have been elected as a Division 40 Fellow. At that time, of the more than 4500 Division 40 members, including 108 Fellows, only 11 Fellows were women. 

On 7/24/1999, Dr. Nemeth was a member of the first Post-Doctoral Master of Science’s graduating class in Clinical Psychopharmacology in the United States, receiving her degree (M.S.C.P.) from the California School of Professional Psychology. On December 26, 2007, Dr. Nemeth was awarded the title of Medical Psychologist, from LSBEP, with accompanying prescriptive authority. Dr. Nemeth chaired a 116^th Convention APA Symposium on Louisiana’s Story: Impact of Prescription Privileges on Psychological Practice---Louisiana’s Story in August, 2008.

 

Dr. Nemeth was affiliated with the Department of Psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University (SLU), where she taught Cognitive Neuroscience and Functional Neuroanatomy (Spring 1999). More recently she taught Introduction to Psychology at Our Lady of the Lake College for the (Fall 2007, Spring 2008, and Spring 2009).

 

Dr. Nemeth’s accomplishments in the field of Clinical Neuropsychology have resulted in numerous presentations at the International Neuropsychology Society, National Academy of Neuropsychology, and other professional meetings. (See section XV of her vita for specific information in this regard). Her most recent peer-reviewed journal article (2007), published in Applied Neuropsychology, is titled, “Scientific Investigation of Brain-Behavior Relationships using the Halstead-Reitan Battery.” One of her most recent presentations, titled “Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation for Returning Head Injured Veterans: Ethical vs. Moral Issues,” was given at a seminar titled, “Working on the Front: Ethics in Rehabilitation of Veterans,” at Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA, on February 29, 2008.

 

Dr. Nemeth is currently serving as Vice President for the World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP) and is a WCP/DPI/NGO Delegate to the United Nations. Dr. Nemeth has been nationally and internationally recognized for her Hurricane Anniversary Wellness Workshops, which, in cooperation with many government, religious, and professional organizations, were offered to the victims/survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Summer 2006. The results of these workshops were presented at APA’s 114^th Annual Convention and were featured in two of Division 49’s Newsletters. For her efforts on behalf of others, Dr. Nemeth has recently been elected to Fellowship Status in that Division (Group Psychotherapy). She is now chairing an International WCP Committee for the development of a world-wide Disaster/Trauma Relief professional certification process. Dr. Nemeth has recently made a workshop presentation on these important issues at the UN/DPI/NGO meeting in September 2007 in New York City. Most recently, Dr. Nemeth was invited by the department of Psychology at Peking University, The Chinese Psychological Society, and the Chinese Association for Mental Health, to present a workshop at the 2008 World Congress for Psychotherapy in October in Beijing, China. This workshop, titled “The PANDA BEAR Program,” was designed to train psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals in the techniques that were successfully used in the 2006 Hurricane Anniversary Wellness Group Workshops (Katrina Workshops). PANDA BEAR is an acronym for Preparing Achievable Nurturing Disaster Adaptations & Behavioral Emotional Acceptance Rituals. This program was featured in an article titled “From Katrina to China,” in the November, 2008 issue of The Group Psychologist (APA).