Allison White Twente, Ph.D.

practice

Dr. Allison White Twente works with children and adolescents and their families. She has expertise and interest in facilitating the adjustment of families to change, especially following death or divorce. She provides individual counseling to all age groups, and also counsels couples and families and guides parents in facilitating their co-parenting.

education & experience

Dr. Twente is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. After completing her professional training at UNC Chapel Hill and the University of Denver, she worked for five years at The Children’s Hospital, Boston for the department of surgery as the pediatric organ transplant psychologist.

While in Boston she was an Instructor in Psychiatry for Harvard Medical School. She refined her interests in all facets of child development and was especially drawn to helping children cope with chronic medical conditions and grief, an interest she continues to pursue in her clinical work today.

Dr. Twente has helped many families cope with traumatic death and serious injury. Attorneys have sought her expertise in evaluating and describing a family’s grief in legal matters.

After moving to Richmond in 1994, she worked for MCV and then started a small private practice. Dr. Twente later founded Westhampton Family Psychologists, PC, a collaborative group practice, in 1998 with her husband, Dr. Stephen Twente.

Dr. Twente and her husband, together for almost 40 years, share in the raising of their two sons.